Director Pedro Almodovar attended the Academy Awards this year and wrote an Oscar-night diary for IndieWire. It would be interesting reading for movie fans in any year as he talks about his run-ins with celebs including Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, and Al Pacino, and carps about the cold temperature in the venue. Oh, but this was the year of The Slap, and Almodovar was seated less than 15 feet away from Will and Jada Smith. (He was there with Penelope Cruz, who was up for best actress in his film Parallel Mothers.) Almodovar avoids a real-time account of "the violent episode that is the only thing talked about the next day." But he circles back to it as he discusses Smith's subsequent acceptance speech for best actor, one the director listened to with disdain: