It is a well-known fact that anything can happen at the Academy Awards. Hollywood's biggest night is taped live and has often grabbed eyeballs and created headlines for gaffes and slips. Here's listing the most eyeball-grabbing moments in the history of the Oscars.
Smith walked on stage as Chris Rock was speaking and slapped him across his face as stunned audience looked on. The reason: Rock had made a joke about Smith's wife Jada's alopecia disease. Minutes later Smith won his Best Actor award but was subsequently banned by the Academy for 10 years.
Instead of walking to the stage when he won best actor for The Godfather, Brando sent Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather up to protest the misrepresentation of American Indians in Hollywood.
Adrien Brody definitely took it a bit too far when he picked up the best actor statuette for The Pianist. When he took the stage to accept his award from the previous year's best actress winner Halle Berry, he stunned the audience -- and Berry -- when he swept her into a brief but passionate kiss on the lips.
"There's been a mistake." Those four words changed the course of Oscars history in 2017, when 2½ minutes into the La La Land team's best-picture acceptance speeches, producer Jordan Horowitz informed the crowd that Moonlight had actually won.
In 1969 both Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn won the award for best actress. "The winner -- it's a tie!" exclaimed presenter Ingrid Bergman. Only Streisand attended the ceremony.
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