It will always be hard to top Gwyneth Paltrow’s tears or Sally Fields’ sobs, let alone Adrian Brody almost bending Halle Berry in half for a passionate kiss.
If winners can resist the inevitable temptation to drag politics into teh event, perhaps they should consider some press-ups liek Pallance. Or how about a full-frontal fresh approach to saying their thanks?
Just don’t try any fisticuffs like Sylvester Stallone and Muhammed Ali above…
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Oscars 2017 the funniest moments ever
1. Julia Roberts – Best Actress for Erin Brockovich (2001)
Roberts’ speech is the benchmark for refreshingly unpolished, witty warmth.
She raised plenty of laughs by keeping a nervous eye on the conductor, saying: ” Sir, you’re doing a great job, but you’re so quick with that stick, so why don’t you sit, because I may never be here again.”
Roberts thanks “everyone I’ve ever met in my life” before ending on a huge scream of delight and yelling: “I LOVE being up here.”
2. Roberto Benigni – Best Foreign Film AND Best Actor for Life is Beautiful (1999)
It’s hard to forget his infectious exuberance as he clambered onto the backs of people’s seats on his way to the stage to collect the Best Foreign Film gong.
His triumph as Best Actor was rather more controversial, beating Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Nick Nolte and Edward Norton.
He soon charmed the room by joking that “I used up all my English,” before leaving jaws on the floor by saying: “I would like to be Jupiter and lie down in the firmament making love with everybody.”
3. David Niven and a streaker (1974)
Niven deserved an award for keeping his cool as the audience shrieked behind him at the sight of a naked man running across the stage.
“That was bound to happen,” he drawled. “Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
4 & 5. Halle Berry – Best Actress for Monster’s Ball / Razzie for Catwoman
Berry was the first black woman to win Best Actress at 74th Academy Awards. As the Oscars So white row rages, she has lamented again this year that her historic win did not herald the changes she had foreseen in the representation of minorities.
On a far lighter note, she showed her true class by stunning the audience and turning up to collect her 2004 Razzie for Worst Actress in the much-derided Catwoman.
In a hilarious, rambling speech she brought the house down thanking Warner Bros “For putting me in such a God-awful, piece of sh** movie.”
6. Jack Palance – Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers (1992)
Those one-armed push-ups have since become legendary but the rest of teh speech kicks some ass, too.
“Billy Crystal? I crap bigger ‘n him,” he joked about his co-star before ending with: “1949, my first film, the producer came to me and he said ‘Jack, you’re gonna win the Academy Award.’ 42 years later he was right. How the sonofab**** knew?”
7. Gwyneth Paltrow – Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love (1999)
Mainly famous for topping Sally Field’s notorious 1985 waterworks. Watch it again, if you have the strength.
8. Adrian Brody – Best Actor for The Pianist (2003)
Brody was a hugely popular winner, but it’s not his words that we remember from his acceptance speech.
The cheeky star acccepted his award from the previous year’s Best Actress winner, Halle Berry and what happened next became Oscars history.
Brody grabbed the beatiful actress, dipped her and planted a lingering kiss on the shocked star’s face as the crowd cheered.
9. Sally Field – Best Actress for Places in the Heart (1985)
Yikes, the ultimate cautionary case of too much hysteria.
Field collected her second Best Actress award and tried to make a clever riff on a famous line from her previous winning role five years earlier.
The oft-misquoted “You like me, you really like me” was in fact “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me,” which was a variation on a line from Norma Rae.
All people remember, however, is the painful over-emoting and apparent neediness. Oops.
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