there's nothing quite like the annual
Academy Awards which brings together
Hollywood's most elite filmmakers and
actors for a celebration of the year's
most impressive films and performances
for those lucky few who get to take home
a trophy from the lavish showcase it's
the role of a lifetime to get to deliver
an acceptance speech from the stage I
want to say thank you to everybody but
every once in a while winners manage to
make things extremely awkward between
cringe-worthy comments and political
overtures these Oscar winners definitely
made audiences squirm while accepting
their big prizes Sam Smith everything
seemed to be going swimmingly for
British singer Sam Smith 21 the 2016
Academy Award for Best Original Song for
a Spectre theme the writing's on the
wall but things got awkward when Sam
Smith erroneously implied that he was
the first openly gay man to receive an
Oscar I read an article a few months ago
by Sir Ian McKellen and he said there no
openly gay man had ever won an Oscar but
McKellen's comments had been about the
best actor award specifically which made
fans of other openly gay winners like
Elton John and Dustin Lance Black's
scoff in disbelief at Smith's false
claim so I basically said that I was the
first gay person to ever win an Oscar
Smith quickly apologized for the gaffe
and blamed a few too many sips of
tequila for the slip I wasn't happy with
my performance and we thought we had no
chance of winning at all so I was just
like let's just get the party started
and then we won and I was just like whoa
Moll and to be fair the discomfort
caused by the final moments of the 2017
oscars was by no means the recipients
fault
after being announced as the winners of
the Best Picture Oscar three la-la-land
producers were in the middle of their
acceptance speeches when it came to
light that fellow nominee moon might
have actually won the award Damien
Chazelle we're standing on your
shoulders
we lost by the way know this there's a
mistake moonlight you guys won Best
Picture presenter Warren Beatty had
received an incorrect envelope which led
to the now infamous blunder moon lights
director and producers ultimately got
the chance to issue their own thanks but
before they could revel in the night's
biggest prize bata decided he had to
clear things up from the same stage I
opened the envelope and it said Emma
Stone la-la-land
not only did the mistake inspire some
key production updates with the show but
it was also responsible for some of the
wildest audience reaction shots the
Oscars have ever known Marlon Brando at
the 1973 Academy Awards viewers and
attendees were shocked after Marlon
Brando was announced as the winner of
the Best Actor Award for the Godfather
not because he didn't deserve it but
because a young woman in Native American
dress appeared in Marlon Brando's plays
and things got weirder from there as she
approached the podium she refused to
accept the statue from presenter Roger
Moore and instead explained that she was
Shashi Littlefeather president of the
National Native American affirmative
image committee and would be
representing Brando she then said Brando
would not accept the award the reasons
for this being are the treatment of
American Indians today by the film
industry some members of the audience
booed while others applauded and the
incident also reportedly caused the
academy to ban winners from using other
people to accept or in this case refused
their awards in a 2016 interview at the
Los Angeles Times Littlefeather an
activist and an actress described as she
was subsequently ostracized by the show
business community saying the government
was madder than hell they told everyone
in the studios in Hollywood not to hire
me or they would shut them down
I was blacklisted or you could say
red-listed Johnny Carson Dick Cavett
they didn't want me on their shows in
recent years Brando and little feathers
actions have been reframed with Jada
pinkett-smith crediting Littlefeather as
an inspiration for her boycott of the
2016 Oscars over a lack of diversity
Gwyneth Paltrow Paltrow's 1999 win for
Best Actress for her performance and
Shakespeare and love prompted a speech
that has since been called the day Oscar
sincerity died accepting her Oscar a
visibly overcome Paltrow gave a
seemingly endless beach that was slammed
for excessive we penis I wouldn't I
wouldn't be in this auditorium let alone
here if it wasn't for two incredibly
talented men her words may have been
heartfelt but if she'd have delivered
that kind of performance in the movie
chances are she wouldn't have won that
trophy in the first place Eleanor
Burkett and what's been called the
Academy Awards Kanye West moments
journalists Eleanor Burkett made things
super uncomfortable when she rushed the
stage during Roger Ross Williams 2010
acceptance speech for Best Documentary
Short subject the classic scene she then
launched into her own acceptance speech
making for seriously uncomfortable and
confusing viewings it turned out that
the two had serious beef over the
winning film music by prudence Burkett
reportedly came up with the idea for the
film and had been a producer but later
left the project she even sued Williams
and claim that she hadn't received
proper credit for her involvement while
he's a knight her claim to the picture
and everybody thinks I was bad for
interrupting camera so they don't think
he was bad for like bigfooting me
whatever the reason for their tip it
made for the kind of stage drama you
don't expect to see from any category
let alone this one
Angelina Jolie long before she became a
global humanitarian and mother to six
Angelina Jolie developed a reputation
for being something of a wild child in
the late 90s her portrayal of a
sociopath and Girl Interrupted earned
her the Oscar for Best Supporting
Actress in 2000 and that people didn't
know she was strange before they
certainly found out as much during her
acceptance speech for the award Jolie
had been joined at the event by her
brother James Haven whom she basically
made out with on the red carpet and
instead of running through the usual
list of people to think Jolie turned her
attention again to her relationship with
him I'm in shock
and I'm so in love with my brother right
now he just held me and said he loved me
and I know he's so happy for me all due
respect to their tight-knit sibling
status and all but that is enough to
make any audience uncomfortable thanks
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