Winning an academy award is the wildest dream of any actor who decides to enter the cinema industry. Getting an Oscar is equal to achieving the highest peak of your career. The Oscars is considered one of the most prestigious awards in cinema history, but the history of the Oscars has seen a number of controversial or dark moments. To stop this from happening and to match the step with the growing society, the Academy has changed a number of aspects of the awards but yet again we witnessed another slap gate during the ceremony. Today here we bring you top 10 most controversial moments in the history of Oscars.
1. Will Smith slapping Chris Rocks: The 94th Academy awards turned controversial after Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rocks for mocking his wife Jada’s Baldness. The actor later clinched the best actor award of the year. This incident sparked many questions and brought Smith in the culprit box.
2. Angelina Jolie Kissing her brother: Back in 2000, Hollywood’s renowned actress Angelina Jolie won the award for best actress of the year. And she celebrated it in quite a controversial way. She celebrated it by kissing the man she was with during that night. And that man was none other than his own brother James.
3. Wrong best movie announcement: During the Academy Award 2019, a huge blunder happened when due to the mix of envelopes La La Land was announced as the best movie of the year instead the real winner which was Moonlight.
4. Adrien Brody Kisses Halle Berry: Just a year after she won the Oscars, Halle Berry returned to host the ceremony and it didn’t went as plan. The plan got ruined after Adrien Brody who won the award for the best actor kissed her on stage without any consent and prior warning.
5. Naked Man interrupted David Niven: In 1959, David Niven won the best actor award for the year. And his iconic speech was interrupted by a running naked man, who turned out to be a photographer and a gay right activist, who wanted to grab attention and promote the peace in the world.
6. Marlon Brando Refuses Best Actor Award: Back in the days, Marlon Brando left everyone’s eyes wide open after she refused to accept the award for best actor for her performance in Godfather. She did so to show her form of protest over Hollywood's issues with the representation of Native Americans in film.
7. Roman Polanski Receives Award After Fleeing The Country: Also from 2003's 75th Academy Awards, it might be one of the Oscars' darkest ever moments, as it highlights one of the Academy's most-criticized aspects: its willingness to overlook the misdeeds of its members. In the years that followed the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, controversy followed director Roman Polanski.
8. David Letterman’s hosting disaster: David Letterman who was hosting the Oscars for the 9th time in 1995, turned the ceremony into disaster with his hosting. “Oprah, Uma. Oprah, Uma. Oprah, Uma. Have you kids met Keanu?” he joked to complete bemusement. Only Seth MacFarlane—whose ‘We Saw Your Boobs‘ musical intro number torpedoed the 2013 ceremony.
9. No Black Nominees Two Years Running Leads To Boycott: After all 20 nominees at the 87th Academy awards were of Caucasian descent, a conversation started regarding the lack of diversity and the apparent whitewashing of the awards. This led to the birth of the hashtags "#OscarsSoWhite" and "#WhiteOscars", which were at the heart of a social media movement.
10. Sacha Baron Cohen provokes North Korea: With millions of eyeballs glued to the TV, there’s no better venue than the Academy Awards for a prankster like Sacha Baron Cohen. In 2016, he smuggled an Ali G outfit into the ceremony to have his say on the #OscarsSoWhite race row, but four years previously he pulled off a memorable stunt in-character as The Dictator‘s Admiral General Aladeen.
