For an institution that loves to wrap herself in the grandeur of the Hollywood Golden Age and dedicate herself to celebrate the best in cinema, Oscar is always a mess. The annual night at the Dolby Theater wants to become a stronghold of strict taste and cultural significance, but not more often, takes care between self-affair and lump sum For every growing moment of career-defined victory, a snack, a bang, or a jaw leaving a jaw that is to remind us is that the biggest night of Hollywood is just a gold water mounted circus for the pranks imagined in the Couture of Hollywood.

For example, consider the 1940 celebrations when Hati McDaniel became the first black artist to win an Oscar for his role. gone With the Wind – An important opportunity, only moist from the reality that he was forced to sit on a separate table behind the room. The academy patted himself on the back for his enlightened hug of diversity, while pretending to destroy it to maintain the situation together.

Hattie McDaniel has accepted his Oscar for his role in ‘Gone with the Wind’: Photo Credit: Academy

Then Marlon was brando Righteous fatherSnow of establishment in 1973, when he rejected his Best Actor Award in his place to reject his Best Actor Award, his best actor award, opposing the treatment of Hollywood original Americans. Academy’s response? A mixture of nervous applause, lump sum, and a still infamous moment where John Wayne was to be physically restrained by the storm on the stage. The academy later admitted that Littlefeder ended the years of professional vengeance for his speech, it was too late in five decades to issue only one formal apology.

Of course, no discussion of the Oscar-night chaos is complete without the mention of a naked person. In 1974, ideological artist and serial streeker Robert Opel collapsed on stage behind host David Niven, putting a peacemark for a audience, which was not sure to laugh or start. Niwal quipped about Nivekar’s “shortcomings”, disappeared in Opel counterclockous learning and Hollywood breathed a relief that for a time, a scam could laugh.

Even when the scam does not appear physically, it can still manage the room depth. Rapid forward for 2003, and it was currently the turn of the Best Actor Named, Adrian Body, which was the turn to uncomfortable the Oscar, when he put a binned kiss on the hall Berry. the piano GuysThis moment was initially mixed with applause, but in the retrospective, it was almost as well as milk left in the sun. Berry clearly caught the guard, later admitted that he had no idea how to react in the moment.

Actor Edrian Body with a kissing presenter Hell Berry with a kiss, he won the Oscar for the Best Actor for his work at the ‘The Pianist’ at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, on Sunday, March 23, 2003. Photo Credit: Brian Vendor Bruge

Then there are controversies that include not a single shocking moment, but a complete unpleasant creative option. Seth McFarlen’s 2013 host Gig is a prime example, with the lowest point, titled “We Same Your Boobs”, in which she recalled the topless scenes of Hollywood’s most famous actresses – many of which were in films depicting rape or sexual attacks. The crowd panicked and laughed, uncertain, are they watching satire or just a direct misunderstanding. A decade later, a moment’s HR nightmare reminds how the industry can still, somehow, can make the room wrong.

Some scams are not about what happens on the stage, but who is not at all. #CarsSowhite Movement, after two-white acting nominated people in 2015, was the most disadvantage of the deficiency of the academy’s diversity in their whitewash history. The hashtag was trended worldwide, stars such as Zaida Pinket Smith and Spike Lee boycotted the ceremony, and the academy finally embarrassed enough to start overhaling its voting body to include more women and color people. Progress has been made, but the shadow of that particular failure.

Nevertheless, no moment is a symbol of the academy’s ability for disaster like Fiysco, the best picture of 2017, in which La la Land Mistake was declared as the winner instead of the real winner, Moonlight. Live television spectacle of confused producers asked how he had given the most important prize of the night, and Warren Beatty stared at the envelope as it included nuclear codes as it included, the awards remain one of the most real moments in history.

Sometimes, however, the failure is not in the same moment, but in the ceremony itself. Take 2021, when the academy, in the adventure attempt to move things, placed the best actor at the end of the night; Apparently to expect a poignant, posthumous victory for Chadwick Bosman. Instead, Anthony Hopkins took the award. The actors were also not present, so the night ended in a deep anticlamectic silence, with a cut one could fully process anyone before Black that had just happened.

And then the “slap Hurd ’round the world of 2022 came. Chris Rock chose a sick-slane about the shaved head of Zaida Pinket Smith, inspired Will Smith to straighten on stage and slapped her on the face in a moment to initially assume that it was scripted. The room stress was very important as Smith, after minutes, won the best actor and gave a tear -filled speech about love and safety. The academy, regularly in fashion, did nothing at the moment but later banned Smith for a decade. The result was immense, the memes were tireless, and till date, ‘slap-gate’ remains a shorthand for any magnificent public recession.

Will Smith slapped on the Chris Rock stage on March 27, 2022 during the 94th Oscar at Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. Photo Credit: Robin Bake

And now, in 2025, we reach the latest. As the academy Oscar moves towards the night, the counted has been defeated by a much more self-installed PR meltdown from his nominations, one thing is certain: this year’s race has gradually reduced itself that it is nothing more than a unhappy war.

For almost a century, the Oscar has bill itself as the most glamorous night of Hollywood, and yet, year -head, the ceremony proves that any amount of orchestration cannot be anarchy by slipping through cracks. Whether naked ambition, naked protest, or just through plain nudity, this function is present as a practice in damage control. Perhaps, the true heritage of Oscar Knight is not a bright statue assigned during the night. Just those moments they never see for us.

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