According to foreign news reports such as the Associated Press and the New York Times on the 2nd (Korea time), Will Smyths said, "I will fully accept all the results of my actions." He said, "My actions at the 94th Academy Awards were shocking, painful and inexcusable."
Academi announced this in an emergency announcement the day after it announced that it would condemn Will Smyths' actions and open a disciplinary process for the case.
“I have responded directly to the news of the disciplinary proceedings in Academi, and I will accept all the consequences of my actions,” Will Smyths said in a statement.
“I have taken away the opportunity for other candidates and winners to celebrate their outstanding achievements,” he added. “I feel really bad about this.”
“We accept all future outcomes that the board will properly do,” he said, “and we promise not to take any further violence for any reason.”
Academi immediately accepted his return of membership. “We immediately accepted Will Smyths’ request to resign,” the organizers said, “and the disciplinary process of Will Smyths for violating the Code of Conduct will continue ahead of the board meeting to be held on April 18.”
If you are deprived of your membership, you will be deprived of the opportunity to participate in all Events and movie screenings provided by Academi in the future. It is also excluded from the eligible candidates to vote for the Academi awards, but if only the basic qualification requirements required by Academi are met, they may be nominated for the award.
Will Smyths voluntarily returned his membership, but there are a few cases where he was forcibly deprived of his membership of Academy due to various social disputes.
Harvey Weinstein, a big-time producer who sparked the Me Too movement in Hollywood in 2017, has been inciting and raping actresses for more than 30 years since the 1970s. At that time, the American Academy of Film and Arts (AMPAS), the organizer of the Academy, convened an emergency meeting and disqualified Weinstein from membership and imposed a punishment that permanently expelled him. To disqualify Academi membership, more than two-thirds of the members present must approve of it. At the time, Academi said, "We have exceeded the number of votes required for the withdrawal."
Bill Cosby, who had been a comedy-wrinkle in the 80s, was also sentenced to three to 10 years in prison in 2015 after it was reported that he sexually assaulted up to 60 women. “We also eliminate his bust that was trying to move to North Hollywood campus (along with the removal of the membership list),” said Academi, along with Bill Cosby’s permanent expulsion.
Roman Polanski, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Pianoist, was also stripped of his membership and permanently expelled for sexual assault in 2018. At the time, coach Roman Polanski filed a complaint against the results and raised the issue of the expulsion of Academi, and filed a lawsuit against Academi members, but it was not accepted.