Did Will Smith Just Ruin His Nonexistent Chances at an Oscar?

Might I Am Legend star Will Smith’s increasingly erratic behavior cost him the Academy Award that, let’s be honest, he was never going to win anyway, not in a million years? The L.A. Times’ Tom O’Neil thinks so! Despite the fact that Legend is a movie about the last survivor of a flu outbreak that turns everyone in the world into flesh-eating mutants, Warner Bros. has apparently decided to spend actual money pushing Smith for a Best Actor Oscar. But thanks to a verbal gaffe during an interview scheduled to air on 60 Minutes this Sunday night (“I’ve never viewed myself as particularly talented,� he apparently says), O’Neil thinks Smith’s chances just went from zero to even less than zero.

Also, at a press conference in Tokyo yesterday, Smith accidentally revealed secret I Am Legend plot details while answering a question. “Don’t give away the ending!� shouted Akiva Goldsman, the film’s producer, while “holding his head in anguish.� Yikes! We hope Smith hasn’t already written the acceptance speech which he definitely would never have had to give!

Will Smith: Bye-bye, Oscar? [The Envelope/LAT]
Oops, Will Smith gives away ending of latest film [Reuters]