2024-03-08 11:26:21
On the night of Sunday March 10 to Monday March 11, the 96th Oscars ceremony will take place in Los Angeles, with “Oppenheimer” by Christopher Nolan as the big favorite.
A look back at five capital “scandals” that have marked the history of the Oscars for worse and worse.
March 27, 1973 – John Wayne’s assault on Sacheen Littlefeather
On March 27, 1973, during the 45th Academy Awards, actor Marlon Brando was awarded the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola. Very politically engaged, Marlon Brando gave way to Sacheen Littlefeather, then a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and the first indigenous woman to appear on stage during an Oscar ceremony. On stage, the Native American criticizes the stereotypes targeting First Nations in the entertainment industry, also evokes the Wounded Knee demonstration in 1973 in South Dakota which highlighted the massacre of the Lakota Indians in 1890.
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The audience expressed their disagreement and behind the scenes of the evening, the mega-star of the time, John Wayne even tried to physically attack him, only held back by security agents. The Oscars will present her with an official apology… in 2022. This year, actress of Indian origin Lily Gladstone is the favorite to win the statuette, for her role in “Killers of the Flower Moon” by Martin Scorsese. the times are changing.
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March 21, 1999 – Harvey Weinstein’s “shenanigans”
Influential producer of a whole section of American auteur cinema, Harvey Weinstein was for a long time – before his fall for rape and sexual assault – the big man of the Oscars, working behind the scenes to win statuettes for his foes – 80 Oscars in total … The 1999 ceremony remains his masterpiece. That year, the romantic comedy “Shakespeare in Love” won no less than seven Oscars, including that of best film once morest “Saving Private Ryan” by Steven Spielberg and “The Red Line” by Terence Malick. Gwyneth Paltrow wins the Oscar for best actress once morest Cate Blanchett, who was incredible in “Elizabeth”.
How did he pull it off? Quite simply by transforming the romantic comedy into a historical film on the true life of William Shakespeare among voters who have not seen the films (and there were many of them). Machiavellian.
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February 27, 2011 – the kiss of discord
The ABC channel which broadcasts the show in the United States does not joke with virtue and political correctness. In 2011, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem began a dance move in magnificent pearl-colored tuxedos, before a chaste kiss on the mouth, just to tenderly mark the reunion of the two actors of “No Country for Old Men”. Since the famous Janet Jackson “Nipplegate” affair during the Superbowl in 2004, when Justin Timberlake exposed one of Michael’s sister’s breasts, a seven-second delay allows the director of live programs to skip images that might shock the gentleness. ABC avoids the diplomatic incident and instead cuts a shot to Penélope Cruz, the city-based wife of the handsome Spanish hidalgo who had just given him his first child…
February 27, 2017 – “La La Land” crowned three minutes
The incredible imbroglio. Alongside Warren Beatty, actress Faye Dunaway announces the Oscar for best film for “La La Land” by Damien Chazelle. The producers of the film go on stage, congratulate each other, but behind the scenes, there is panic. It was the wrong envelope that was opened, so following three minutes of total confusion, the statuette changed hands to finally crown “Moonlight” by Barry Jenkins. Cruelty of history: despite his talent, Damien Chazelle suffered two public failures, “First Man” and “Babylon” and seems very far from being able to win the Oscar once more.
March 27, 2022 – Will Smith’s slap
We thought it was a sketch, but it wasn’t. On March 27, 2022, comedian Chris Rock makes a joke regarding the alopecia from which Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, suffers. The actor shows up on stage, belches and gives Chris Rock a gigantic slap in the face in front of the cameras – the broadcaster ABC also leaves the sequence, which may be surprising in hindsight. In tears, Will Smith won the Oscar for best actor a few minutes later for “The Williams Method”. But his crazy gesture earned him a ban for ten years from any event linked to the Academy of Oscars. Will Smith apologized a few months later. His career took a hit due to lack of brains.
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