greatest oscar moments

Greatest Oscar Moments

Greatest Oscar Moments
31. Thread Carpet
The Moment Cher steps out at the 58th Academy Awards looking like a Disney villainess.
Why Its Great This is the costume that set the bar for outrageous Oscar fashion. Its never been beaten.
32. Bring On The berg
The Moment Steven Spielberg wins a belated Best Director award for Schindlers List at the 66th Academy Awards.
Why Its Great Steven Spielberg had been shunned both for his 5* blockbusters and his lessthan5* serious dramas. But when he directed a 5* serious drama, there was no ignoring him.
33. Zionist Hoodlums
The Moment Vanessa Redgrave learns that its a tough crowd at the 50th Academy Awards when she uses her Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech to rail against Zionist hoodlums.
Why Its Great The retort from writer Paddy Chayefsky later that night Im sick and tired of people exploiting the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal propaganda.
34. Palances Push Ups
The Moment 73yearold Jack Palance feels the need to prove his manhood doing onearmed pushups, after winning Best Supporting Actor at the 64th Academy Awards.
Why Its Great Host Billy Crystal spends the rest of the ceremony making wisecracks about Palances strength.
35. Green Screen
The Moment Ben Stiller arrives on stage in a green leotard at the 78th Academy Awards believing hes been greenscreened out by the FX bods. Trouble is, he hasnt been.
Why Its Great Its the finest example of Ben Stillers oneman mission to make presenting more interesting than reading a bunch of names off an envelope.
36. Homemade Oscar
The Moment Bob Hope is interrupted by superfan Stan Berman, a New York cabbie who gatecrashes the 34th Academy Awards to hand Hope a homemade Oscar.
Why Its Great Its the kind of watercooler moment itd take Will Ferrell, a crack team of comic writers and endless rehearsals to come up with nowadays.
37. Bo S Lecter
The Moment Host Billy Crystal captures the Zeitgeist at the 64th Academy Awards by being wheeled on stage in Hannibal Lecterstyle mask and restraints.
Why Its Great Crystal clocks Anthony Hopkins in the crowd and asks him, Im having some of the Academy over for dinner. Will you join me?
38. Double Celebration
The Moment Not content with becoming the youngest ever winner of the Best Actor Oscar at the 75th Academy Awards, Adrien Brody decided to give presenter Halle Berry a lingering snog.
Why Its Great Sometimes, you just gotta celebrate. Plus Brody was witty enough to play on his rep by showing up to present the Best Actress prize the next year with a breath spray.
39. Fictitious Times
The Moment Michael Moore wins Best Documentary at the 75th Academy Awards, the month the Iraq War began, and proceeds to use his acceptance speech to blast fictitious President George W. Bush to mixed boos and cheers.
Why Its Great The kind of tensionwithaknife controversy that you hardly ever get at the wellbehaved, mediamanaged Oscars of contemporary times.
40. Tears Of A Clown
The Moment All is forgiven as Charlie Chaplin, hounded from America two decades earlier for alleged Communist sympathies, returns to Hollywood to receive a Lifetime Achievement award.
Why Its Great Proof that its never too late for a comeback, and the 12minute standing ovation set a record that has never been broken.