Oscar Dramas! Our all-time favourite moments from Hollywood's biggest night out
The Oscars 2017 is just a few days away, and we can't help wonder what the big talking point will be on Monday. Just to warm to you up, here's our pick of those Oscar moments that you just can't forget (even if you want to.)
Ellen Degeneres/TwitterEllen DeGeneres made history in 2014 when her spontaneous Oscars selfie over-took Barack Obama’s election night victory photo to become the most retweeted message of all-time. The pic, which included Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Kevin Spacey (phew!), was retweeted 871,000 times in less than an hour. Not only did it break a record, it also broke Twitter itself as the social media site appeared to briefly collapse under the strain during the awards.
PA PhotosPoor Jennifer Lawrence! The excitement of winning her first Best Actress Oscar in 2013 was too much and she took a tumble as she headed up the stairs. Fortunately Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper were on hand to help her up again. J-Law had gathered herself enough by the after-party to beat off the advances of a certain Jack Nicholson.
Watch her do it here if you can’t remember.
Who could forget Angelina Jolie’s right leg? It went viral in 2012 with artists Photoshopping it onto everyone from The Simpsons to famous monuments.
PA PhotosThe White House had a cameo at the Oscars in 2013, when Michelle Obama presented the Best Picture gong to Argo via weblink. Thankfully Jack Nicholson was on hand to give the cast and crew the actual physical award.
Rex FeaturesBjork seemed to think the 2001 Oscars were an opportunity to play fancy dress. She famously turned up in this bizarre Marjan Pejoski Swan dress and an ill-fitting nude bodysuit.
Getty ImagesAdele seemed to have an absolute ball at the Oscars in 2013 – and not just because she won a gong for her song Skyfall. The Essex singer took Hollywood’s good and great in her stride, even letting Catherine Zeta-Jones pet her statuette.
Globe PhotosIt’s easy to forget just how shocking Angelina Jolie was in her youth. The actress famously turned up to the 2000 Oscars with her brother James Haven and then proceeded to passionately kiss him on the red carpet. More eyebrows were raised when she gushed over him during her acceptance speech: "I'm so in love with my brother right now.”
PA PhotosThe Artist star Jean Dujardin took up his furry friend Uggie The Dog when he went up to collect his Best Oscar in 2012. And melted a million hearts in the process.
Getty ImagesSacha Baron Cohen, having had his 2012 Oscar ban revoked, proceeded to cause havoc on the red-carpet. He dressed as his character, The Dictator, and upturned an urn onto unsuspecting host Ryan Seacrest. The funnyman then told the bemused presenter the ashes were of recently departed Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. After pouring them over Seacrest's Burberry suit, he was led away by security shouting: “Now when people ask what you're wearing, you will say Kim Jong-il!”
PA PhotosWe all cringed in 1998 when Titanic director James Cameron accepted his Best Film Oscar by shouting: “I’m the king of the world.” But to be fair to Cameron, his movie had just won 11 Oscars, equalling the record set by 1959’s Ben Hur.
PA PhotosBarbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn both won the Best Actress Oscar in 1968 for their performances in The Lion In Winter and Funny Girl. This was the first and only time that the Academy announced a tie in the Best Actress category, and Streisand famously greeted her gong with the words: “Hello gorgeous.”
PA PhotosAnd the Award for Most Excitable Winner goes too… Cuba Gooding Junior. In 1996, the Jerry Maguire actor jumped on stage to collect his Best Supporting Actor Award and launched into an exuberant speech, which was only cut short when he couldn’t be heard above the orchestra.
PA PhotosThe late Christopher Reeves received two standing ovations when he appeared at the 1996 Oscars ceremony. The Superman actor had been paralysed from the waist down after a riding accident the previous year.
Lots of actors get emotional when they win an Oscar but few can compete with Gwyneth Paltrow’s spectacular performance when she scooped Best Actress in 1999. The star has since spoken of her embarrassment over the weepy episode: "I keep it [her Oscar] tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out.”
PA PhotosIn 2001, Julia Roberts won a Best Actress Oscar for Erin Brockovich. When the actress realised that she had passed her 45-second speech limit, she shouted: "A girl's got to have her moment. Everybody tries to get me to shut up. It didn't work with my parents and it didn't work now." She thanked everyone, except Erin Brockovich on which her character was based.
PA PhotosIn 2002 Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win an Oscar – and the actress made sure that no one would forget it. After showing her gratitude to just about everyone in Hollywood, the actress finished by thanking her then-husband with the unfortunately sounding: “Lastly and not leastly, I have to thank Spike Lee”. Halle’s speech was four times longer than the allotted 45 seconds.
PA PhotosApparently an offer he could refuse, The Godfather actor Marlon Brando declined his 1973 Oscar for Best Actor in protest at Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans. The actor sent along a 26-year Apache Indian called Littlefeather who attempted to read Brando’s statement above the crowd’s boos.
PA PhotosNever one to shy away from the controversial, Michael Moore did not disappoint at the 2002 Oscars when he picked up the award for Best Documentary. The Bowling For Columbine director went into a full-blown rant against President Bush and the war in Iraq to a mixture of boos and cheers.
PA PhotosRob Lowe appeared in what turned out to be one of the Oscars’ most bizarre opening numbers in 1989. The Brothers and Sisters star, and an actress dressed up as Snow White, sang so badly that Julie Andrews, Paul Newman and Gregory Peck reportedly wrote a letter of complaint. To add insult to injury, Walt Disney threatened to sue the Academy for the unauthorised use of the Snow White image.
PA PhotosIn 1974, 33-year-old Robert Opal streaked across the Oscars stage flashing a peace sign. In what must be some of the best-ever ad-libbing, actor David Niven, who was on stage ready to present an award, said: “The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping ... and showing his shortcomings.”
PA PhotosAdrien Brody took the opportunity of winning a Best Actor Oscar to give Halle Berry with a back-breaking snog in 2003.
PA PhotosTom Hanks famously revealed that his high school drama teacher, Rawley Farnsworth, was gay when the actor thanked him on accepting a Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia.
