Commentary Although a member of the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1983, I haven’t been watching the Oscars much in the past few years, so I missed the supposedly “grand event” of this year’s ceremony—Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, who told an insulting joke about Smith’s wife Jada. More of that in a moment, but first why I no longer watch. At first glance, the obvious reason is that they have turned it into a Festival of Woke. And, yes, that’s part of the reason, although I understand it wasn’t so extreme this year.   Nevertheless, the idea that Sean Penn threatened to melt down his statues if the Academy didn’t televise a message from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the proceedings is yet another ludicrous—though not surprising—example of how so many members can’t let the evening be about the movies. It has to …