The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 "You like me! You *really like me!"
yes I know that was not her direct quote, but it’s like “Play it again, Sam”. It’s what folks remember.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You *really *like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
As politically incorrect as the movie may have been, her performance was brilliant and she breathed a dignity and intelligence into Mammy lesser actresses could not have. (Octavia Spencer is also a great actress [who I happened to work with at one point and who was a FB friend until she became super big] and I’m glad she won the 2012 Oscar, but I wish somebody of her talent could get better roles than Mammy 2.0.)
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
Controversial because of his testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities back in 1952, which helped put some on the Hollywood blacklist due to suspected Communist ties. There were demonstrations outside the theater and some of the actors at the ceremony ‘sat on their hands’ in protest while others stood and applauded as Kazan received his award.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
She took it in stride but my understanding is she was not amused. He’s also allegedly banned from SNL for his antics while hosting.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after Bowling for Columbine won the Best Documentary Oscar.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after Bowling for Columbine won the Best Documentary Oscar.
The Academy Awards had a streaker, and presenter David Niven recovered with a quip.
Walt Disney accepts one big Oscar and seven little ones from Shirley Temple for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Charlie Chaplin receives an honorary Academy Award, and is given the longest standing ovation in Oscar history
At the first Oscar ceremony after 9-11, Steve Martin came out as host right after a huge, over-the-top opening number and said, “Well, I’m glad they cut back on all the glitz.”
The always bizarre Jack Palance’s one armed pushups when he won for City Slickers.
Sally Fields’ acceptance speech in 1985 “You like me! You really like me!”
Hattie McDaniels becoming the first black actress to win an Oscar in a major category for a movie whose world premiere she was not legally allowed to attend
Elia Kazan’s honorary Oscar in 1999
Adrian Brody full liplocking Halle Berry when he won for The Pianist
Michael Moore’s anti-Bush tirade after Bowling for Columbine won the Best Documentary Oscar.
David Letterman’s “Uma…Oprah” introduction
Billy Crystal making an entrance wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask
or, for a more recent one, John Travolta introducing Idina Mezel as “Adele Dazeem”
New Category:
Academy Award Winning Songs: love, hate, meh?
“Let it Go” from Frozen, meh at first, hate after hearing it for the tenth-twentieth-hundredth time