5 Most Scandalous Moments in Oscars History (Aside From The Slap)
Academy Awards ceremony is just around the corner so we decided to take a look back at some of the most awkward, scandalous and controversial moments over the Oscars' most recent history.
And no, we're not talking about the Slap.
Statuettes in a Dumpster
A couple of weeks before the 72nd Academy Awards, in 2000, 10 boxes containing 55 award statuettes disappeared from the warehouse. A spare batch was ordered to be manufactured.
The stolen statuettes were found only later in a dumpster in Los Angeles' Koreatown by Willie Fulgear, a local junk scavenger.
Praised by media and The Academy itself he received the reward only to be suspected to be an accomplice of the crime later. By the way, three statuettes were never found.
Most Hated Host
Perhaps no one can top James Franco in the Most Hated Oscars Host category. He hosted the 2011 ceremony along with Anne Hathaway.
After the evening, Franco was accused of looking sluggish, distant, bored and completely uninterested in what was happening.
Especially the audience hated him dressing up as Marilyn Monroe. However hard Franco tried to explain himself later, it didn't help.
The Envelopegate
In 2017, the winners in the presenters for the Best Picture, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway have been mistakenly given a wrong envelope, and thus first proclaimed La La Land the best movie of the year.
Just as the La La Land creators climbed onto the stage to give their speeches, was it revealed that the actual Best Picture award went in fact to Moonlight.
Hands Off Idina Menzel
Nope, we're not done with awkwardness. It was painful to watch John Travolta butcher Idina Menzel's name when announcing her performance of a smash hit Let It Go in 2014.
Probably deciding it couldn't get any worse he than groped her face on the stage the following year. Big mistake.
Lights Out On Parasite
In 2020, after the foreign-language film Parasite made history becoming the first one ever to win Best Picture, an incident occurred on stage. Suddenly the lights went out right when Parasite's creators were giving a speech.
But that was nothing that angry chants to turn them back on by Charlize Theron and Tom Hanks couldn't fix.
There's a cautious hope this year's ceremony will spare us of such unnecessary things. Please.