Was nude streaker planned oscars9/1/2023 Oscar ceremonies have had unwelcome surprises before, particularly when a streaker ran naked across the stage in 1974 and when “La La Land” was announced as best picture winner in 2017 and immediately corrected to "Moonlight."īut late into Sunday night’s live broadcast, something happened that sparked a whole new level of bewilderment, shock and awkwardness. Never stop Björking.Watch Video: Chris Rock won't press charges over Will Smith slapping him at Oscars So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.” We love you Björk. In very Björk fashion, she would occasionally “lay eggs” by dropping them on the red carpet stating, “I was very aware when I went to the Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. Nominated that year for best original song ‘I've Seen it All’ from Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark (a film that should have been nominated for most depressing film ever made), Björk overshadowed all news of the show with her dress by Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski. The only shocking thing at play here is that anyone expected Björk to wear a normal gown in the first place. At its core, the swan dress is playful, charming, and sweet. It's been a punchline for so long that it feels like an old friend. This engineering feat of feathers and illusion netting has redeemed itself over time through its iconography alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the swan dress is on another red-carpet list-and it deserves to be. If that wasn’t enough drama, Littlefeather’s family members and investigative journalists have recently revealed that Littlefeather is not even Native American at all, making this one of the longest-running Oscars sagas of all time. Coretta Scott-King commended the non-violent stand, and in 2016 when the Oscars were in the heat of the #OscarsSoWhite backlash, Jada Pinkett-Smith cited Littlefeather as her inspiration to boycott the awards. Michael Caine, who was hosting the ceremony, criticized Brando for letting Littlefeather “take all the boos instead of standing up and doing it himself.” While the speech was divisive at the time, Littlefeather and Brando were indisputably on the right side of history. Her speech was interrupted with an uproar of booing and applause-John Wayne had to be restrained by multiple security guards as he attempted to force her off the stage. Knowing he would likely win Best Actor for his role in The Godfather, Marlon Brando asked 26-year-old Apache Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse the award on his behalf with a speech about the mistreatment of Indigenous Americans in the film industry and the concurrent protests at Wounded Knee. Below is a list of pre-Twitter, pre-slap Oscar moments that still have our jaws on the floor. From publicity stunts to daring wardrobe choices to historic firsts, most of these moments predated the social media machine and were simply iconic enough to go viral through cultural buzz alone. (For the love of god, don’t talk to me about the slap).The Oscars have been a vehicle for gossipy water-cooler moments long before Twitter was even a twinkle in Jack Dorsey’s eye. Increasingly we ask ourselves: Why do we care? Maybe it’s because the pitfalls of live-programming can be instantly immortalized by memes that haunt our collective memory for years to come. This Sunday, our beloved Hollywood elite will trot down the red carpet in front of the TCL Chinese Theater for a night of polite clapping, masochistic footwear, and all the orgiastic industry back-patting we’ve come to expect from the Oscars. Grab your shape wear and boob tape, it’s that time of year again.
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