Will Smith s infamous slap of Chris Rock at last years Oscars has led the awards shows sponsor to build a crisis team for anything it may not anticipate ahead of this years ceremony in March.

Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , revealed to Time magazine that the organization has created a whole crisis team for the ceremony after the 2022 shows debacle. Smith resigned from the academy after his outburst and was banned from Academy Awards attendance for a decade.

We have a whole crisis team, something weve never had before, and many plans in place, Kramer said. Weve run many scenarios. So it is our hope that we will be prepared for anything that we may not anticipate right now but that were planning for just in case it does happen.

The slap, Kramer continued, opened academy leaders to consider what could occur during the Oscars and how they will react.

But these crisis plans the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place allow us to say this is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement, he said.

And obviously depending on the specifics of the crisis, and lets hope something doesnt happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.

Academy President Janet Yang recently described the organizations response to the slap as inadequate.

We learned from this that the academy must be fully transparent and accountable in our actions, and particularly in times of crisis you must act swiftly, compassionately and decisively for ourselves and for our industry, Yang said. You should and can expect no less from us going forward.