Hello Steemers! This is my first post on Steem and here I preperad a compilation of some unforgettable weird moments in the 88-years of Oscar history:
So, the women in the picture above is Alice Brady who had won the Best Actress in a supporting role award in 1938 for her performance in the Old Chicago movie. After the announcement that she won the award in the ceremony, some guy step up the scene to take the Oscar reward on behalf of her. After the ceremony nobody saw neither the award nor the guy again. Academy, after a long time, accepted their mistake and apologized to Brady promising her that she will get a brand new award soon. But she had never been able to get it before she dies.
In 1957, Le Ballon Rouge, had won the Best Original Screenplay award. The interesting part of that the movie had no dialogues in it and it was actually a 30-minute-long short-film. No dialogues part can be understandable in the decision in terms of originality but because of the length of the movie it was absolutely not a movie. Sometimes it is really hard to understand what the academy thinks of. By the way, you can watch the whole movie here ;)
In 1971, George C. Scott was watching a Hockey game at his farm house with his wife-to-be-soon and then sleeping while the movie he played in, Patton, was sweeping the awards 1500 miles away from his house. He did not give a single shit about the ceremony and snubbed his award with these words: "The ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”
In 1974, famous actor David Niven was about to announce the Best Movie award when a naked guy run into the stage waving a two-fingered peace sign. He was Robert Opel, 33-year-old gay right activist and a photographer. As the streaker flashed the audience one last time before disappearing, Niven quipped, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
In 1977, years ago that schizophrenic Thamsanqa Jantjie was faking an interpreter with a weird language in the memorial of Nelson Mandela, Debbie Boone’s live performance on “You Light Up My Life” song had became a total disaster. Boone came to the stage together with a choir of deaf kids. It was real hearth-breaking moment that made many people cry. But soon later it turned out that none of the kids was really deaf and the sign language they use was simply fake.
In 1989, Robe Lowe and Disney’s Snow White made a duet on the Creedence Clearwater's "Proud Mary” song. Snow White was singing with a childish voice tone and it was so lame that Disney had to apologize later on newspapers with a letter. But that was not the only problem. Letting Rob Lowe, whose sex tapes with 16-year-old girls just revealed a year ago, standing on the stage and making a duet with Snow White was absolutely not the best idea.
In 1992, when Jack Palance won the Oscar by being the best actor in supporting role, he step on to the stage and took the mic: “Billy Crystal, I crap bigger than him. You know, there are times when you reach a certain age plateau where the producers say, they talk about you and they say, "Well, what do you think? Can we risk it? Can we do it? Can we use him?" The other guy says, "I don't know, let's look at some younger ones. We can make them look older, but this one, you know, it's kind of difficult.” and continued by performing some one-armed push-ups to show his strength.
Everybody knows that use of drugs is something quite popular in Hollywood but also not a publicly accepted fact unless someone goes to a rehab. So, in 2000, producers of the South Park did something very memorable to criticize this (or they were just really weird) and came to the ceremony under the influence of drugs. They were wearing sexy woman dresses on the red carpet. Later on, in an interview, they told that their tuxedos were also ready in the trunk for just incase.
We all know Angelina Jolie is mother of six children, life partner of Brad Pitt and also the Goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. What most of us maybe don’t know is that she has a little bit weird personality. Or how else one can explain the moment she was making out with her own brother on the red carpet whit lots of seductive french kisses. That was what happened in 2000 when she got an award for her performance in the “Girl, Interrupted” movie and told “I’m in love with my brother” during her agreement speech.