{"id":14917,"date":"2023-02-17T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14917"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:11:32","slug":"top-5-craziest-oscar-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/02\/17\/top-5-craziest-oscar-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 craziest Oscar moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s nearly that time of year again. The Oscars celebrate the achievements of the film industry\u2026 but many of us are secretly thinking: what could possibly go wrong this year?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s face it, the Oscars haven\u2019t always gone as smoothly as planned, which can be both entertaining and sometimes quite shocking. From the infamous Will Smith slap at the Oscars 2022 to the wrong winners being announced, the event has had its fair share of hiccups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in honour of the 95th Academy Awards on the 13th of March 2023, let\u2019s have a look back at the craziest Oscar moments of all time!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>In this blog:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Will-Smith-slaps-Chris-Rock\">Will Smith slaps Chris Rock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#La-La-Land-thought-they-had-won\">La La Land thought they had won<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Marlon-Brando-refuses-award\">Marlon Brando refuses award<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#The-Streaker\">The Streaker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#The-Swan-dress\">The Swan dress\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Will-Smith-slaps-Chris-Rock\">Will Smith slaps Chris Rock<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking place at the 94th Academy Awards, this incident went viral all over social media, alongside a ton of backlash.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While many thought it was a stunt, the rest of us were utterly speechless that the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air went rogue and slapped Chris Rock across the face!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will Smith went on to win an Oscar for Best Winning Actor for his role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Richard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. However, he has now been banned from attending the Oscars and other Academy events for the next 10 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needless to say, we\u2019re still not over it.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"La-La-Land-thought-they-had-won\" style=\"text-align: center;\">La La Land thought they had won<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, this just shows that things can go wrong last minute, even at the Oscars! Back in 2017, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were given the wrong envelopes for the winners of Best Picture, announcing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La La Land<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when it was in fact <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moonlight<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that had won.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make matters worse and even more embarrassing, it wasn\u2019t until after the producers of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La La Land<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had actually gone on stage to collect the award that the mix-up had been revealed and they had to give it back\u2026how awkward!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Marlon-Brando-refuses-award\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Marlon Brando refuses award<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1973, many were shocked that Marlon Brando not only boycotted the event but refused the Best Actor award for his role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Godfather<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, one of his most famous films!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of going on stage and refusing the award himself, he asked Native American civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather to decline the award on his behalf and he even had a 15-page speech prepared about the portrayal and treatment of Native Americans in film and TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"The-Streaker\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The Streaker<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you thought it couldn\u2019t get any worse, back in 1974, the audience and host David Niven were in for a shock. Just as the actor was about to introduce Hollywood royalty Elizabeth Taylor, a streaker stormed onto the stage, leaving the audience baffled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as a true professional, Niven carried on and made light of the situation. It was later revealed that the streaker was artist and Gay rights activist Robert Opel.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"The-Swan-dress\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The Swan dress<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most talked about outfits on the Oscars red carpet has to be Bjork\u2019s swan dress, which she wore in 2001.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this is where it gets a bit weird if it wasn\u2019t weird enough already! She took it a step further and pretended to \u2018lay\u2019 eggs on the carpet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, people are still talking about the iconic look years later and the outfit has even been displayed in museum exhibits!<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planning your next movie marathon? Save more on award-winning films by shopping our <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/?filter=collections:oscar-award-winners\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oscars collection<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the musicMagpie Store. You can also shop a huge range of tech with us, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/mobile-phones\/\">refurbished phones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/mobile-phones\/apple\/\">refurbished iPhone<\/a> models too.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you know the average UK household contains \u00a3842 of unwanted tech? Head over to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-mobile-phones\/\">Sell My Phone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-mobile-phones\/sell-my-iphone\/\">iPhone trade in<\/a> pages to find out how to start turning your hidden tech treasure into cash.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nearly that time of year again. The Oscars celebrate the achievements of the film industry\u2026 but many of us are secretly thinking: what could possibly go wrong this year?\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, the Oscars haven\u2019t always gone as smoothly as planned, which can be both entertaining and sometimes quite &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14917"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18010,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions\/18010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}