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Oscar awkward moments11/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The crowd instantly turned on him, booing until the music played him out and off the stage. He gave a passionate speech, not about his film, but about "fictitious times", directly referring to the contested presidential election of George W. Moore invited his fellow documentary nominees onstage as he accepted his prize. Picking up his first Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore used his speech to make a political stance. Horowitz holds up his hand and said: “This is not a joke." La La Land realised they hadn't won and now given the right card, Horowitz holds up the right card which reads Moonlight are the winners. Producer Mark Platt gave his thank you speech but producer Fred Berger takes over the mic and gives a speech anyway, finishing with: “We lost.” La La Land was incorrectly announced as winners, but no-one knew otherwise as the cast and directors headed to the stage to pick up their award. One of the most awkward and embarrassing moments to take place at the Academy Awards happened in 2017 during the announcement of the most anticipated award, Best Picture. Taking his win even further, Roberto stood right over Speilberg in excitement, straddling the seats. ![]() He stood on his seat cheering and responding to the applause from the audience. When his name was read out, the actor and director jumped for joy quite literally. In a show of clear elation, Roberto Benigni made headlines for how he reacted when he won best foreign language film in 1999. He ended his speech by quoting a song lyric by his brother River: “Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow”. Then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal." “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. I think, whether we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice," he said. The actor used his spotlight to talk about racism, women's rights and the dairy industry. But it was a classier affair than we’ve seen for a long time, and with the forgivable exception of Jenny the donkey who made a surprise cameo onstage, nobody really made an ass of themselves.In 2020, Joaquin Phoenix accepted his best actor award for Joker with a speech campaigning for equality. Will I regret my enthusiasm in the cold light of day? Sure, it’s good for commentators when the Academy Awards go off-piste - the Slap will surely have boosted ratings this year - and cynics may have wished, to paraphrase one of Kimmel’s Will Smith jokes, that it hadn’t entirely gone off without a “Hitch”. They say stories like this only happen in the movies… This is the American dream.” “I spent a year in a refugee camp, and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage. “My journey started on a boat,” said the actor breathlessly. And while it’s unlikely Quan was thinking of Suella Braverman when he was called to the podium, the home secretary could do worse than to catch the highlights. ![]() Many groan when politics intrude in cheery awards celebrations, but at least Yulia Navalnaya’s “Stay strong, my love,” delivered to her husband, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was the sort of message everyone in the Dolby Theatre could get behind. Though Jimmy Kimmel did a mostly competent job as emcee, the proceedings included some real bum notes, including a clunkily scripted promo for the live action remake of The Little Mermaid (Disney owns ABC, the principal US broadcaster of the Oscars) and a particularly awkward low when Kimmel asked Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai if she thought Harry Styles really spat on Chris Pine. The ceremony, scheduled to run for three hours from 8pm Eastern, didn’t finish till gone 11:30 indeed, half an hour had passed by the time the second award was announced. There was, as usual, much to be gloomy about. Not least, perhaps, because none of them seemed destined for happiness, whether it was the finger-swallowing Jenny from The Banshees of Inisherin or the long-suffering star of EO. Donkeys featured prominently in several of this year’s Oscar nominees, which, for those of us who start to feel an Eeyore-like pall descending at the approach of awards season, was somewhat triggering. ![]()
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