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Their extraordinary work. >> reporter: it's become one of the most famous and controversial moments in oscar's history. >> will smith just smacked the [ bleep ] out of me. >> reporter: it wasn't just oscars viewers who initially thought the moment will smith slapped chris rock might have been staged. the man running the entire show, first time oscar's producer will packer says in a news interview with good morning america said he thought so, too. >> i thought it was a bit like everybody else. once i saw will yelling at the stage with such vitreal, my heart dropped. i said did he really hit you...