Sure, they’re meticulously planned.
There’s always the potential for things to go wrong and plenty of thingshavegone wrong at the Academy Awards.
In 1974, one man decided to don his birthday suit instead.
The audience, amused, broke into a bout of whistles and hollers.
After the chatter abated, Niven was a good sport about the whole thing.
“Ladies and gentlemen, that was almost bound to happen,” hesaid.
The crowd went wild.
Some cry, some laugh, some scream… and then there’s Roberto Benigni.
And he had quite the reaction.
When he reached the stage, he ascended the stairs by hopping like a frog.
Thankfully, nobody in the audience seemed too stuffy about the stunt.
Most people laughed and cheered, happy to share in his joy as they should have been.
Let the man crowdsurf if he wants he just won one of the biggest awards in cinema.
At one point during the night, he quickly kissed her on the lips in a display of affection.
Both Jolie and Haven have addressed the kiss in interviews, insisting that there was nothing unusual about it.
“I did not give Angie a French kiss, it was something simple and lovely.
She was about to go off to Mexico to finish filming ‘Original SIn’ with Antonio Banderas.
I congratulated her on the Oscar win and gave her a quick kiss on the lips.
It was snapped and became a big thing round the world.”
2003: Michael Moore gets booed by the audience
Filmmaker Michael Moore is no stranger to controversy.
… We are against this war, Mr. Bush.
Shame on you, Mr. Bush.
Shame on you."
Some members of the audience cheered him on; others erupted in a chorus of boos.
Toward the end of his speech, the orchestra began to play, shooing him offstage.
Despite the tension in the room, Moore kept his head held high as he made his exit.
She quickly picked herself up and proceeded up the stairs.
In an interview withW Magazine, Lawrence offered some insight into the mishap.
As she took to the stairs and her dress started to get trapped beneath her feet, she remembered.
“Kick, walk” was the actual phrase she needed to tell herself.
Nevertheless, she cheered herself up with some positive self-talk: “Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Get your s**t together, you know?
You gotta get ready to sing this note.”
Ultimately, in a bizarre twist of fate, she ended up feeling grateful for the mix-up.
Apparently, the card he was handed featured a phonetic spelling of Menzel’s name.
Upon accepting their award, Smith made a surprising claim regarding LGBTQ+ representation at the Academy Awards.
Co-presenter Faye Dunaway, thinking he was being silly,said, “You’re impossible!”
before announcing “La La Land” as the winner.
Horowitz stepped forward to manage the ensuing confusion.
“There’s a mistake.
‘Moonlight,’ you guys won Best Picture.
This is not a joke,” he said.
Horowitz graciously shared his congratulations as the “Moonlight” team arrived onstage for their special moment.
PwC, the accounting firm in charge of verifying the results that year, released anapologyafter the ceremony.
In a statement toVariety, Chapman shared her disappointment at this mistake.
I am alive and well and an active producer."
The Academy laterapologizedfor the gaffe.
That wasn’t all she was later captured pretending to clap altogether, her hands never making contact.
“It was really awkward.
I was like, ‘Gosh, I want to clap.
I don’t want to not be clapping’ which would be worse, right?”
she said (viaCBS News).
His speech started out in a relatively tame fashion.
“You got to celebrate life, man.
We’re breathing, we’re walking, it’s incredible.
And then things took a turn for the awkward.
“My mom met my dad, they had sex!”
Kaluuya’s next few sentences provided some context.
“It’s amazing!
I’m so happy to be alive,” he added.
In case you somehow missed it, here’s a recap.
Jane in a hypothetical sequel.
Stunned, Rock said, “Will Smith just slapped the s**t out of me.”
Pinkett Smith addressed the slap for the first time about two months later.
In July, Smith apologized once more in aYouTube videotitled “It’s Been a Minute.”
“So I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you.”
