Academy ‘split’ over confiscating Will Smith’s Oscar on decision day

And the Oscar goes to . . .

Will Smith’s Oscars trial is at a stalemate. With Smith’s fate over The Slap slated to be decided today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board is reportedly divided on whether to confiscate the “Hancock” actor’s Best Actor award.

“The members — of which there are over 9,000, with hundreds of WhatsApp groups flying about — are completely split,” an LA source told the Sun of the hearing by the academy. The Tinseltown tribunal was originally scheduled to meet on April 18, but was moved up to today following the 53-year-old’s resignation from the academy.

Smith, who won the Best Actor Academy Award for his role in “King Richard,” slapped Oscars presenter Chris Rock after the 57-year-old comic made a bald crack about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia.

“The decision was made earlier this week to expedite the hearing in the wake of Will’s resignation,” the source explained. “And during that call, it was clear that the decision would go to the wire.”

However, after multiple calls with “various members, and specific governors over the past 10 days,” the 54-member jury — which includes 24 women — remains at a 50-50 impasse over the verdict, per the watchdog.

“The governors themselves are also said to be in disagreement,” said the source, adding that the board deemed it hypocritical to rescind Smith’s statuette given that “convicted sexual predator Harvey Weinstein and fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski” still haven’t been stripped of their Oscars.

“But, as we all know, Hollywood is a law unto itself, frankly,” lamented the source.

To date, the academy has only revoked one Oscar: “Young Americans” had its 1969 Best Documentary accolade retracted after the board discovered that the film had come out in 1967.