"Anne Hathaway, you gave a stunning performance in Les Misérables. I haven't seen you so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars."
Posted on 02/22/2013 10:23:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Though meticulously planned, film's most important night of the year rarely goes off without a hitch. When you get too many of Hollywood's biggest names in a room, there's bound to be some mayhem. Here are the 10 worst Oscar moments of all time.
10. James Franco and Anne Hathaway host the Oscars
James Franco and Anne Hathaway are great actors, but the two didn’t make such great Oscar hosts in 2011. They were called “boring,” “spectacularly bad” and the like by critics across the board. The worst moment of the night came when Franco dressed up as Marilyn Monroe, pretty much guarantying that he would never again host the awards show.
9. Jack Palance shows us he can do push ups
Jack Palance had already showed the world he was the best supporting actor out there in 1992, so he decided to show off his strength when he took the Oscars stage to accept the award. He used his time in the spotlight to show he could do a one-armed push up...in fact he did several. The actor then continued with a strange, rambling speech.
8. Sacha Baron Cohen dumps ashes on Ryan Seacrest
In 2012, Sacha Baron Cohen turned up at the Academy Awards dressed as his movie character “The Dictator” and dumped gray “ashes” on everyone’s favorite red carpet host Ryan Seacrest. The “American Idol” host handled the ambush like a pro and quickly returned to his red carpet interviews.
7. Rob Lowe sings and dances with Snow White
The 1989 Oscars opener featured a beyond awkward musical number, during which Rob Lowe sung and danced alongside Eileen Bowman dressed as Snow White. The ensemble is said to have destroyed the career of its producer, Allan Carr.
6. Michael Moore gets political 2003
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What about Hattie McDaniel’s wardrobe malfunction back in 1940 ?
Seacrest can be insufferably smug and smarmy at time, but the man is a pro at keeping the show moving at the right pace.
Oops. Telecast aired in '91. Awards were for 1990's films.
Palance pushups were great actually
#9 - Better than the push-ups was his line for host and film co-star Billy Crystal: “I crap bigger than you!”
Actually it ties to 2 things:
Hollywood reporters have no memory, nobody wants to put a list out there featuring a bunch of names nobody reading the story will recognize
In 1974 the length of the broadcast jumped, it used to almost never be more than 2 1/2 hours, now it’s almost never under 3 1/2 hours. More self congratulation, more drinking, more incidents.
Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
I find it odd that they left out the moment that guaranteed that I would never watch the awards again. It was back when tom Hanks got an awards for Philadelphia and went on a long tirade about how AIDS was the fault of the Reagan administration and that we didn’t do enough AIDS research, and rambled on a bunch of absolute BS.
Hell, I have trouble even watching a Hanks movie anymore. Last one I saw was probably Saving Private Ryan, and that was underwhelming.
Niven’s famous line over the streaker was “Well, ladies and gentlemen, that was almost bound to happen... But isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
most folks think Jack Haley Jr instigated it on purpose for that now legendary line
I remember it well
Hope or Carson...there is no substitute
RE: In 1997, he was King of the World.
James Cameron got verbally whacked by Amy Poehler at the Golden Globes this year :
“I haven’t been following the controversy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty,” Poehler said after drawing attention to nominated director Kathryn Bigelow. “But when it comes to torture, I trust the woman who spent three years married to James Cameron.”
Worst moments...every time Whoopi Goldberg hosted it.
But I am glad that I don't have a clue about the other events. I boycott Hollywood and the Media. If it wasn't for Rush and Levin, I wouldn't know Chris Matthews or Piers Morgan existed.
I’m of the opinion that about 0.002% of the “legitimate” films made in Hollywood in the last 70 years are even worth a bucket of warm spit.I don’t give a rat’s hindquarters what happens at the Oscars...never have,never will.
Can't agree with ya there.SPR is a genuine classic for several reasons...one of which is that it's at least loosely based on real events.It was great in spite of Hanks,not because of him.Sgt Horvath,Doc and Jackson made that film.Mellish and Caparzo were also outstanding.
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