Oscar curiosities: What the winners of the film awards are ashamed to remember

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

During the Oscar awards ceremony, curiosities often occur that are remembered by the audience more than the names of the victors. The main curiosity of the Oscar-2019 was the fall from the stage of Rami Malek, who won the Best Actor award for his role as Freddie Mercury in the film Bohemian Rhapsody. However, this annoying incident is not the biggest curiosity in the history of the Oscar. The most funny, ridiculous and scandalous situations during the ceremony are further in the review.

Despite the fact that the participants prepare for each ceremony very carefully, and the presenters rehearse their performances according to a previously prepared script, confusion and annoying mistakes often cannot be avoided on stage. So, back in 1934, the American comedian Will Rogers, announcing the winner in the nomination "Best Director", said: "" But he did not take into account the fact that there were two people with that name in the list of Oscar nominees, and both of them went up to the stage. And while the triumphant Frank Lloyd was enjoying the applause, Frank Capra was forced to return to the hall, and it was, in his words, "". The creators of the musical "La la Land", who were mistakenly summoned to the stage in 2017, would probably have understood him, and after they had already started giving a speech of thanks, they announced that the main prize had actually been received by the film "Lunar light". As it turned out, the presenter was given the wrong envelope - it contained the name of the winner of the Best Actress nomination - an actress from La La Landa.

Sometimes cherished figurines disappeared in an unknown direction. So, in 1938 "Oscar" was awarded to actress Alice Brady for her supporting role in the film "In Old Chicago". Instead of her, an unknown man appeared on the stage, who introduced himself as her representative, and took the award. His personality, like the fate of the statuette, still remain a mystery.

And sometimes the happy winners of the film awards, out of joy, themselves forgot about the Oscars. When Leonardo DiCaprio finally received the award in 2016 after years of waiting and thousands of ridicule about this, he went with his friends to a restaurant to celebrate this event. Probably, the holiday was a success - the actor simply forgot the cherished statuette in the restaurant. The journalists managed to record on cameras the moment when he left the restaurant and was heading to the car, and an unknown man ran after him and gave him a forgotten award. And Meryl Streep, having received her first Oscar in 1980, was so worried that she completely forgot the statuette in the toilet. After that, she became the winner twice more, and did not let go of the award.

Usually, the actors wait for these days with trepidation and excitement, and the invitation to the ceremony is accepted as an honor. However, this rule has its exceptions: in 1973, Marlon Brando ignored the ceremony, and instead sent an actress dressed in the traditional outfit of the Apache Indian tribes to the stage. She announced that the actor thanks, but does not accept "Oscar" for his role in the movie "The Godfather": "".

Rami Malek should not worry about his fall from the stage - if only because such cases occur quite often. Colleagues joke that one more award - for the most awkward actress - should have been instituted specifically for Jennifer Lawrence, who fell at the ceremony twice - once when she went on stage, and the second - on the red carpet. Due to her fall on the steps, the chic Dior dress received additional attention from the audience, and its price after that increased to $ 4 million. In 2018, Jennifer Lawrence made a splash again - this time she was firmly on her feet, but in search of her place in the hall did not go around the rows, and with a glass of wine in her hand began to climb over the chairs.

Sometimes at the ceremony there are incidents that are not provided for by the script. In 1974, the main star of the evening was … a naked man on stage! When Elizabeth Taylor was invited to announce the winner, a completely naked stranger suddenly ran out from behind the curtains, showed everyone the Peace sign and disappeared. The host - comedian David Niven - was not taken aback, joking about this: "". Later it turned out that this "daredevil" was a famous gay activist. In the same "suit", he appeared more than once at meetings of the city council of Los Angeles, protesting against the ban on nudist beaches.

In a state of euphoria, the victors of the ceremony do not always behave adequately - not everyone knows how to control their emotions. In 1997, the Italian director and actor Roberto Benigni, who received two statuettes for the film Life is Beautiful at once, climbed onto the back of a chair in one row, then the next, stepping over the heads of those sitting and thus intending to get to the stage. And in his speech, he was no less extravagant - he said that he would like to be "" because of the joy that overwhelmed him.

Could not cope with his emotions and Adrian Brody, who in 2003 was recognized as the best actor for the film "The Pianist": he ran onto the stage and awarded the award-winning actress Halle Berry with a long kiss, who then could not recover. This kiss went down in the history of the film awards as one of the most scandalous and most passionate.

One of the most scandalous was the awards ceremony in 1940. Then the Oscar first went to a black actress - Hattie McDaniel - for her supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind. In December 1939, she could not get to the premiere of the film - on the eve of the event, all black artists were struck off the list of invitees. Of course, she was invited to the Oscar ceremony, but she had to sit in a separate part of the hall for colored people. In her acceptance speech, Hattie McDaniel called her success a victory for her entire race.

This year, the audience remembered the presentation of the film award not only due to curiosities: 7 highlights of the 2019 Oscars.