The 10 most controversial moments in an Oscar award ceremony

A few hours before the start of the 94th edition of the OscarsIt is worth clarifying that the drama not only fills the billboard of the nominated films, but has also sneaked onto the stage during the ceremony.

Here we remember 10 moments that were controversial and had their share of scandal in the history of the Academy Awards, such as a kiss on the lips that Angelina Jolie shared with her brother on the red carpet and when they named as winner of the best film of the year to which it was not.

Angelina Jolie said she was “in love” with her brother (2000)

After winning the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Interrupted innocence, Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven surprised everyone with a kiss on the lips on the red carpet at the Vanity Fair after party.

During her acceptance speech, Jolie referred to Haven: “I’m so in love with my brother right now. She just hugged me and said that she loved me, and I know that she is very happy for me.”

The kiss immediately generated headlines, which Jolie called pathetic. Later the actress said that the brothers had been visiting their mother with cancer that day in the hospital. The actress explained that the kiss and declaration of love had been just part of her reaction to her emotional ups and downs. “My parents loved that moment, and that’s what will always matter,” she told a media outlet.

A nudist ran on stage in the middle of the gala (1974)

The 1974 Oscars can be rated R (restricted) after Robert Opel, an English teacher, stripped down and took the stage as host David Niven introduced Elizabeth Taylor.

Fortunately for Opel, he was able to evade arrest, probably because everyone thought the stunt was funny. Also, he was invited backstage to explain himself.

It turns out that her nudity was a form of protest against society becoming too conformist, according to Opel, owner of a Los Angeles gallery known for displaying homoerotic art.

tragically, Opel was murdered in his gallery after organizing another protest this time following the decision to charge Dan Whitewho killed the town supervisor Harvey Milkmanslaughter rather than murder.

Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to decline his award for Best Actor (1973)

Yes ok Marlon Brando wasn’t the first person to turn down his Oscarhis rejection of the ceremony after his iconic role in The Godfather It was one of the most impressive.

Brando, who had already taken home the Best Actor statuette once before for his role in the 1955 film On The Waterfrontwas considered again favorite for his role as mob boss Vito Corleone in the 1972 film.

Nevertheless, Brando refused to accept the award in protest at the way Native Americans were treated in Hollywood..

Instead, sent Native American actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather onstage to decline the award on her behalf. The 1973 awards were the first time the show was broadcast internationally, and More than 85 million people watched Littlefeather’s impassioned speechwhich came just a month after a confrontation between Native American activists and authorities on the Wounded Knee reservation in South Dakota.

Barbra Streisand took the prize for which he had tied with Katharine Hepburn (1969)

At the 1969 ceremony, Barbra Streisand and Katherine Hepburn competed for Best Actress for their respective leading roles in Funny Girl Y The Lion in Winter.

Yes ok it was Streisand’s first nomination, it was Hepburn’s eleventh. In fact, Hepburn had even won the statuette the year before for her role in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinnerand was not expected to win back-to-back awards.

Ingrid Bergman presented the award exclaiming, “It’s a tie!” Streisand and Hepburn each received 3,030 votes, marking the first time the awards had to deal with a tie.

In 1932, Fredric March and Wallace Beery tied for Best Actor, but Beery had actually received one less vote. The two split the prize, because the Academy had established a rule that if nominees were within three votes of each other, they would have to share the honor.

Luckily for Streisand, Hepburn did not attend the 1969 show, so the entire world focused on her.

Adrien Brody unexpectedly kissed Halle Berry when he handed her a statuette (2003)

Halle Berry was chosen to present the award for Best Actor at the 2003 Oscars. The award went to Adrien Brody for his role in The pianist.

When Brody took the stage after his big win, hugged Berry and pulled her into a passionate kiss. After the kiss, Berry looked incredulous. while the audience laughed awkwardly.

In an interview in 2017, Berry told Andy Cohen that the kiss was not planned and that she was not even willing to do it. “She was too focused on ‘What the hell is going on right now?‘”, said.

The kiss wasn’t the only shocking thing Brody did during the 2003 show.

He recently revealed that Jack Nicholson, who was also nominated for Best Actor, invited all of his fellow nominees to his house to persuade them. to boycott the ceremonywhich occurred five days after The United States invaded Iraq.

brody refusedsaying that while Nicholson and the other nominees could have won sooner, could be Brody’s only chance at the coveted prize.

The creators of ‘South Park’ pretended to be famous and admitted that they had taken acid (2000)

Clearly, things got super weird at the 2000 Academy Awards.

The creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parkerwere nominated for Best Original Song for Blame Canada from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The duo wanted to cause a sensation in the show and decided to appear in disguise, with Parker wearing her version of the iconic Versace dress that Jennifer Lopez had worn at the Grammys that year, while Stone wore a pink dress similar to Ralph Lauren that Gwyneth Paltrow had worn to the 1999 Oscars.

The duo said that while some people loved their dresses, others weren’t too happy that the couple seemed to be making fun of the awards. “Some people were excited when we showed up at the Oscars in those dresses, including Michael Caine. But I remember that Gloria Estefan was super angry,” Stone said.

In addition to the red carpet fuss in their outfits, the couple later revealed that they had eaten sugar cubes mixed with LSD just before the show.

Michael Moore criticizes President Bush during his acceptance speech (2003)

We’ve all heard that the music picks up when a speech goes on too long, but the orchestra was forced to start a little earlier when conductor Michael Moore used his Best Documentary speech to criticize President George W. Bush for the invasion of Iraq.

“We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for bogus reasons… Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you,” Moore said during his speech. He was greeted with boos from the audience and was quickly ushered offstage.

Moore, who later premiered Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary that explored President Bush’s role in using the media to stoke public fear after the 9/11 attacks, wound up reliving the speech while accepting an award. to the trajectory in the 2018 Critics’ Awards. Choice Documentary Awards. Moore read the part of the speech that had been cut during the broadcast. During the speech, she encouraged people to grab their cameras and start documenting the war on democracy waged by then-President Donald Trump.

April Reign tweets #OscarsSoWhite, sparking a huge movement in Hollywood (2015)

After it was revealed that all of the 2015 acting nominees were white, April Reign, a campaign finance attorney, tweeted: “#OscarsSoWhite asked to touch my hair”.

Within hours, the hashtag went viral and attracted the attention of big names in Hollywood, such as Spike Lee. People were especially surprised that selma of the African-American director and actress Ava DuVernay, who had been considered one of the Oscar favoriteshad only been nominated for best song and best film, leaving movie stars out of acting categories.

The lights went out on Parasite’s speech as Best Picture (2020)

the victory of parasite as best film was a great event: it marked the first time a film in a non-English language had taken home the top honor. When the cast and crew took the stage to accept the awardwho was one of the six who won the movie overnight, co-producer Kwak Sin-ae first took the microphone and spoke for 45 seconds before handing over to Miky Lee, the film’s other producer.

But before Lee could deliver his speech, the stage lights dimmed and the cameras panned over to Jane Fonda., who was scheduled to deliver the evening’s closing remarks. The audience was instantly outraged and stars like Tom Hanks and Charlize Theron, who were sitting in the front row, they began to shout “Up! Up!” to persuade the showrunners to refocus attention on parasite.

Fortunately, the cheers worked and Lee was able to deliver his comments.

They incorrectly advertise La La Land as the winner of Best Picture, instead of moonlit (2017)

The 2017 Oscars went almost smoothly, until Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took the stage to reveal the night’s big winner for best picture.

Dunaway and Beatty, who had starred together Bonnie and Clydewere invited to announce the winners of the best film for celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the filmeven though the couple have had a remarkably strained relationship over the years.

Everything was going smoothly until Beatty read the winner. He seemed noticeably confusedand some wondered if he was having a hard time seeing the teleprompter. He held out the card to Dunaway.who assumed he was changing the script and letting him read the winner. She exclaimed “La La Land!” and the cast and crew took to the stage to celebrate.

Behind the scenes, PricewaterhouseCoopers Academy accountants sprang into action and alerted production that the wrong envelope had been given and that moonlit it had actually won the award for best picture. Stage managers rushed onto the stage to correct the mistake.

So what happened? It turned out that Beatty had been handed an extra envelope for best actress, which she had gone to Emma Stone for. La La Landinstead of the one that said best film. A production error earlier in the day meant that they ran out of time to rehearse the last awards before show time, which could have contributed to the error.