Some of the most memorable moments of the Academy Awards

1939:
When Hattie McDaniel heard she had won for best actress in a supporting role in the 1939 lm Gone With the Wind, she whooped Hallelujah and rushed to the podium. She was overcome by tears in the middle of her acceptance speech and hurried back to her seat, where she buried her face in her hands and cried. She was the rst black performer to win an Oscar.

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1992:
After more than 40 years in Hollywood, Jack Palance nally won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for City Slickers. He then dropped to the stage and did three one-armed push-ups.

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1995:
The telecast had its highest rating in 12 years, but the jokes of host David Letterman fell at and critics declared his performance a op.

1954:
Audrey Hepburn won Best Actress for her rst starring role, the portrayal of a free-spirited princess in Roman Holiday.

1996: 1972:
Charlie Chaplin, after a self-imposed exile of more than 20 years after being accused of being anti-American, accepted an honorary award for his contribution to the industry and was the recipient of the longest standing ovation of all time (12 minutes). When Cuba Gooding Jr. accepted his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire, he exceeded his allotted speech-making time and the orchestra began to play to cut him o . Deantly, Cuba kept yelling over the orchestra, igniting riotous applause from the audience.

Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in The Godfather, but he turned down the award. Brando boycotted the ceremony and sent American Indian rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place. Marlon Brando has asked me to tell you ... that he must, very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award, she told the stunned audience. The reasons lie in the treatment of American Indians today by the lm industry and on television in movie re-runs, and also in the recent events at Wounded Knee.

1973:

1999:
Host Whoopi Goldberg emerged for her opening monologue in 1999 rocking Elizabethan garb and white face. I am the African Queen, she said. Some of you may know me as the Virgin Queen, but I cant imagine who.

Bjork showed up wearing a swan dress.

2001:

1974:
British actor David Niven was introducing Best Picture presenter Elizabeth Taylor when a naked man ran across the stage and ashed a peace sign.

Dustin Ho man, in his acceptance speech for best actor in Kramer vs. Kramer, began by looking at his Oscar statuette and noting, He has no genitalia and hes holding a sword.

1980:

When Roberto Benigni won Best Foreign Film for his lmLife is Beautiful, the Italian actor jumped up on his chair and proceeded to climb over the backs of 2003: chairs and the audience to Adrien Brody became the youngest man to get to the stage. win Best Actor for his work in The Pianist. After running on stage to get his award, he planted a very long, passionate (becoming uncomfortably long) kiss on presenter Halle Berry.

1999:

Halle Berry became the rst African American woman to win the Best Actress award.

2002:

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