*Sally Field, upon receiving a Best Actress Oscar for "Places in the Heart" - her second statuette - thanked the cast, crew and family. But what brought co-winner Barbra Streisand extra attention at the 1969 Oscars was her see-through pantsuit - or, rather, what she wasn't wearing underneath it. *A tie for an Oscar is rare, especially when one of the winners is a newcomer. He also won Best Actor for the same film in 1999. *Giddy that his "Life Is Beautiful" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Roberto Benigni stood on the backs of seats and applauded the audience before making his way - walking on seat backs - to the stage. *Flamboyant Icelandic artist Bjork, nominated for Best Song in 2001, showed up wearing what appeared to be a dead swan with its neck wrapped around hers, which she wore onstage to perform "I've Seen it All." The outfit was widely panned as a fashion don't. In boiled down remarks, she says she represents the actor's protest against the way American Indians are portrayed by the film industry. *Dressed as an American Indian, Sacheen Littlefeather - later revealed to be Mexican actress Marie Cruz - accepted Marlon Brando's Oscar for Best Actor for "The Godfather" in 1973. *Rob Lowe and "Snow White" (actress Eileen Bowman) opened the Oscar broadcast in 1989 with a duet rendition of "Proud Mary." A number of Hollywood stars later complained, and Disney insisted on a public apology or threatened the Academy could face suit for unauthorized use of a copyrighted figure. *Recipient of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for "City Slickers," Jack Palance, 72, dissed co-star and host Billy Crystal before dropping to the floor and doing several one-arm pushups. At the nadir, he pointed to actress Uma Thurman and TV personality Oprah Winfrey, and "introduced them" to each other - "Oprah, Uma Uma, Oprah Oprah, Uma" - over and over … and over. *David Letterman, expected to bring new laughs to the Oscars as host in 1995, fell flat during his opening. With the audience still laughing, David Niven quipped: "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings." So it surprised no one when a streaker dashed across the Oscar stage in 1974. *Streaking - running naked in public - was a fad in the early 1970s. So, with the telecast just hours away, here's a collection of some of Oscar's oddest moments from through the years: Just don't cry your thanks, Caldwell urgers all winners "They make me want to run from the room screaming. So who knows what might happen tonight in Hollywood's Kodak Theatre? Will it be a ho-hum parade of celebrities taking home a mantlepiece? Or will there be another "Uma, Oprah, Oprah, Uma" moment we'll be talking about for years to come? And she asks: "What is the Apache word for ‘chutzpah?' " She's not alone several members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cited this incident as their favorite Oscar moment in a YouTube video released immediately before the 2008 ceremony - more clips are available at Janet Shelley of Ocala writes on Facebook that her favorite Oscar oddity is Sacheen Littlefeather accepting Marlon Brando's Best Actor Oscar a year earlier. "I was so young," she notes of watching a naked man briefly appear behind actor David Niven. Instead, it's what happens before and after each of the golden statuettes are presented that stick in our minds much like the song in the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt DisneyWorld.įor instance, Lauren Caldwell, artistic director with the Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, still recalls a 1974 incident oh, yes, they call him "The Streak," as Ray Stevens might say. After all, who remembers who took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor two years ago? (It was Heath Ledger posthumously for "Dark Knight.")
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