In a blistering Twitter thread Wednesday, “Summer of Soul” co-producer Joseph Patel, who shared the film’s Best Documentary Feature Oscar win, bluntly called out Will Smith and Chris Rock not only for The Slap, which he said was “selfish,” but also for comments Rock made in announcing the “Summer of Soul Win.
“You absolute f—ing d—,” Patel said about Rock.
“Summer of Soul” had the misfortune of winning Best Documentary Feature immediately after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, an incident that overshadowed almost everything that came after it, and for which Patel criticized Smith.
Patel also specifically called out Chris Rock for how he announced the “Summer of Soul” winners as Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (the film’s director), “and…4 white guys.”