HIGH DRAMA
Inside Oscars’ most shocking moments after Will Smith’s slap – from Angelina’s ‘incest’ kiss to streaker storming stage
REAL life drama dogged the Oscars last night when Will Smith slapped host Chris Rock - and later defended his attack during his acceptance speech.
The actor, 53, hit the star after he compared Jada Pinkett-Smith, who has alopecia, to G.I. Jane because of her short hair.
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Moments after Chris, 57, made the insensitive remark, Will stormed on stage, struck him and yelled: “Keep my wife’s name out your f***ing mouth.”
Later, during a rambling acceptance speech after picking up the Best Actor gong for his role in King Richard, the star refused to apologise and through tears said “love makes you do crazy things”.
It’s the latest in a long line of shocking moments at the Oscars - from celebrities falling off stage, streakers bombing speeches and the wrong winners being announced. Now, we look back at the worst.
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Adrien Brody's uncomfortable forced kiss
When Adrien Brody was presented with the Best Actor award for The Pianist in 2003, his acceptance was anything but normal.
The ecstatic 48-year-old raced on to stage and pulled in Halle Berry, who announced him as the winner, with an extremely passionate kiss.
The forced snog, which lasted for around four seconds, left the actress, now 55, in shock and Adrien yelling “Oh my god” as he finally let her go.
In the crowd, Hollywood stalwarts Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere and Nicolas Cage laughed and smiled - but for Halle it was a different story.
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On a 2017 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, she explained the kiss “was not planned” and she “knew nothing about it” ahead of time.
Halle said: “I was like, ‘What the f*** is happening right now?’...I know the feeling of being out of your body I just f***ing went with it.”
Jennifer Lawrence’s fall
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Not all the shocking moments at the Oscars are deliberate - in fact some are down to sheer clumsiness... as Jennifer Lawrence can attest.
The Hunger Games actress, 31, won the gong for Best Actress in 2013 for her work in Silver Linings Playbook and while on her way to collect it she tripped on the stars and fell.
Despite some stars claiming she faked it, including Jared Leto, she insists the whole thing was real and that walking up steps in a ballgown is hard.
Talking about the incident, she said: “It was so devastating because it was this horrific humiliation to me.”
Jennifer said the fall came about after she forgot to kick out the fabric away from her feet as she walked up to the stage.
Angelina Jolie's 'incest kiss' with brother
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Everyone is used to seeing some smooching when a winner is announced at the big awards show, but Angelina set tongues wagging when she kissed her brother James Haven on the lips.
Fuel was added to the fire with her acceptance speech when she said: “I’m in shock and I’m so in love with my brother right now. He just held me and said he loved me, and I know he’s so happy for me. And, um, thank you for that.”
It certainly got all the attention for the 2000 awards ceremony, but the actress and family insisted it was just a display of sibling love - not incest.
The pair have always been close and in 2014 a family friend explained the pair had spent the day at the hospital with their mum for her first cancer treatment, before getting ready and heading to the bash.
Whatever it was, it certainly made the then relatively unknown Angelina a star of the show and the main topic of conversation.
Streaker storms stage
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It’s rare for a superstar to be upstaged, especially at the biggest awards event of the year, but in 1974 a random streaker managed it.
English teacher Robert Opel hit the headlines after stripping off and running on stage behind host David Niven at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
The streaker, who was a gay rights activist, claimed it was a piece of performance art and a social comment on issues at the time.
Opel wasn’t arrested and was instead ushered backstage to explain to the waiting journalists why he had chosen to do it.
He also stripped at other events in Los Angeles and owned an art gallery wich featured homoerotic art.
Envelope-gate sees La La Land accidentally crowned winner
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The winners of the night are kept a closely guarded secret until they are announced on stage and normally it goes without a hitch - apart from in 2017.
A shocking blunder saw La La Land announced as the winner of the night’s biggest award, Best Picture, instead of the actual winner Moonlight.
It wasn’t until the acceptance speeches were in full flow that an official rushed on to the stage to correct the mistake.
La La Land producer Fred Berger said: "We lost by the way, but you know."
Fellow producer Jordan Horowitz then said: "Guys, I'm sorry, no, there's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture."
And the third producer Marc Platt said: "This is not a joke I'm afraid, they read the wrong thing."
Award presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty looked baffled when they opened the envelope and it later transpired that they had been handed the one for Best Actress by accident.
Speaking about the incident, Beatty explained: "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope, and it said Emma Stone, La La Land. That's why I took such a long look at Faye, and at you [the audience], I wasn't trying to be funny."
Edy Williams' VERY revealing showgirl outfit
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Red carpets are a chance to make a statement with your outfit and be seen as the most glamorous person there - a chance Twilight Zone extra Edy Williams grabbed.
The actress, 79, opted to dress in a risque showgirl outfit made purely of pearls that barely covered her modesty for the 1986 ceremony.
Just four years before she had turned up in a fur coat and leopard print bikini and walked her Great Dane down the red carpet.
She certainly didn’t want to leave anything to the imagination of the audience for either year.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's sizzling duet
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Rumours were rife in the build up to the 2019 Oscars that pop sensation Lady Gaga and Hollywood hottie Bradley Cooper were an item.
It followed their romantic performances in A Star Is Born, which follows two musicians who fall in love and later face relationship struggles after they both become famous.
They sang Shallow at the awards ceremony and shared a number of tender moments, including walking to the stage hand in hand and getting incredibly close.
The emotional pair snuggled closely while serenading each other and brushed faces in a moment that many believed would lead to a kiss.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper have both denied any claims of an off-screen romance but shared the video of the moment, which was watched more than 540 million times on YouTube.
Joaquin Phoenix's bizarre dairy rant
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While receiving the Best Actor gong for his performance in The Joker, Joaquin Phoenix took to the stage to moan about the dairy industry and cancel culture
He said: “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable.
“Then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.”
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The rambling rant lasted for nearly three minutes and left the audience silent in shock before they eventually gave him an applause.
Data from found the rant was the Oscars’ most controversial acceptance speech after more than 11.6million people watched it on YouTube and Google searches for his name rose by 525 per cent.
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