"The reason that makes me so so very angry is because I was so proud to be one of a handful of South Asians to have ever won an Oscar in the history of the award," Patel wrote in a now-deleted Twitter thread Wednesday.
"I was ecstatic that I was the 3rd South Asian to win that night," he continued on Twitter. "Three South Asians winning on the same night – that's never happened before! And it's meaningful! It's history!"
"What I didn't hear in that moment walking to [the] stage but was told of afterwards is what Chris Rock said when reading our name from the winner's card," Patel wrote Wednesday. "WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK?????"
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"I got back home to New York last night and saw the ceremony on my DVR and didn't have the stomach to watch it," Patel continued in the thread. "I probably never will. Thank you, Chris – You absolute fucking dick."
The Oscar-winning producer also said Will Smith 'robbed' his category 'of its moment'
Patel also shared his opinion on the now-infamous moment during the ceremony when Will Smith climbed the stage and slapped Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, during an onstage monologue.
In the joke, Rock made reference to Pinkett Smith's bald head although the actress has been open about her struggle with alopecia, a hair-loss condition.
"I think what Will did was selfish," Patel wrote. "It robbed the category of its moment. It robbed the other excellent and amazing films of their moment to be acknowledged in what was a strong year for docs. And it robbed 'Summer of Soul' and our team of our moment. Of a loud, enthusiastic cheer for a celebrated film."
In a later tweet, Patel explained why he deleted his earlier Twitter thread about how he felt when Rock introduced him at the Oscars on Sunday night.
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"We reached the unproductive portion of the viral Twitter thread so I've deleted it," he wrote. "I said what I needed to say and feel at peace with it. Some of y'all are weirdos."
After days of silence on the matter, Rock made his first public statement about Smith slapping him during the Academy Awards broadcast during a stand-up set at The Wilbur in Boston, Insider previously reported.
The comedian told the sold-out crowd he had written the show he was about to perform before the slapping incident.
"I'm still processing what happened," Rock said, according to a CNN journalist in the audience. "So at some point, I'll talk about that shit. It'll be serious. It'll be funny, but right now I'm going to tell some jokes."
Earlier this week, Smith apologized to Rock, the Academy, his "King Richard" costars along with the Williams family, on which the film is based, with a post on Instagram.
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