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The Academy Awards ceremony is set to start in few days. It’s a perfectly scheduled show where almost nothing can go out of control – the audience even knows when to applaud! Here are the always emotional superstars having speeches, saying thanks to Mom, Dad, beloved dogs, managers, producers… However, when artists like Roberto Benigni and Michael Moore have an opportunity to speak then nothing can be controlled. Here are some sequences of those Oscars’ strangest moments.

1. Marlon Brando Turns Down the Oscar

Marlon Brando was set to receive the greatest movie award for one of the greatest movie roles in history, Vito Corleone from The Godfather, but he was brave enough to reject it in order to shed light on the problem with the depiction of Native Americans in United States. The Best Actor winner for 1973 boycotted the whole ceremony, sending a Native American rights activist to have a speech instead of him. The young girl said: “Marlon Brando has asked me to tell you, in a very long speech which I cannot share with you presently because of time, but I will be glad to share with the press afterward, that he must very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award. And the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry… excuses me… and on television in movie re-runs, and also the recent happenings at Wounded Knee. I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this evening and that we will, in the future our hearts and our understanding will meet with love and generosity. Thank you on behalf of Marlon Brando.” Some applauded, some booed. Brando was criticized that he sent the poor girl to take boos instead of him, but he managed to accomplish his goal, however.

2. Man Runs Naked On the Stage

This probably the world’s best known streaking moment, but it’s also the most controversial of all. On the ceremony in 1974 a 34 years old man, Robert Opel showed his naked body on the stage. A laughter by the audience followed, while “shocked” host David Niven commented: “Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?” Nevertheless, later there were some speculations that it was all set up by producers. Allegedly, Niven asked producer Metzler’s wife a pen  to write on paper the famous sentence, but the most important proof was the fact that Niven stood just between Opel’s naked body and the camera during his streak, so his genitalia couldn’t be seen.

3. Debby Boone and the “Deaf” Children’s Choir

Debby Boone became famous with her only one successful single until she sang it on the Academy Awards in 1979. She thought that her hit “You Light Up My Life” should be heard by deaf people as well as those who made it No.1. She hired a children’s choir which should “sing” the song with the ASL. In the end, it was clear that the children don’t know the ASL as they weren’t deaf at all. It was a shame that requires no further comments.

4. Roberto Benigni’s Chairwalk

Yes, winning actors usually go emotional when presenters read their names, but the charismatic Italian went too far. When in 1999 Sofia Loren read his name as a Best Actor winner Roberto Benigni showed his overemotional nature climbing and walking on the chairs in front of him while going to the stage and applauding the audience in the process. The following year he was honored to announce the name of the Best Actress winner, but this time the host Billy Crystal was aware of his character and appeared behind him with a large net, just in case Benigni go wild again.

5. Angelina Jolie Kisses Her Brother… In Mouth

Angelina Jolie attracts attention with anything she does due to her unusual and wild nature and the love to her brother is not exception. She probably loves him a little bit more than anyone else, so she gave him a kiss in the mouth. Later on the show she said: “I’m so in love with my brother right now,” sparkling speculations of incestuous relationship between the two of them. She denied that saying that that was just an emotional support.

6. Jack Palance Push Ups

Jack Palance had a boxing career before he became an actor, so it’s not really surprise the fact that he can do an one armed push ups even at the age of 73… unless he does it on the stage on Oscars ceremony. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 when the short Billy Crystal was a host. The 193cm tall Palance joked with him using one of his movie lines “Billy Crystal… I crap bigger than him” and proved that with one armed push ups on the stage. Billy was shocked, but he didn’t miss to joke with Jack later, saying that “now he is probably doing bungee jumps from the Hollywood sign.”

7. Michael Moore and His Favorite George W. Bush

In 2003 the whole world expected the Hollywood elite to use the ceremony to protest against the recent US military attack on Iraq. The Academy kindly asked the guests to avoid speaking about that issue, but when Michael Moore appeared on the stage to accept his award it was clear that their wish won’t be respected. Moore said: “We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious President. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or the fictitious of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you!” He received a lot of boos, but Michael Moore wouldn’t be Michael Moore if he didn’t do that.

8. Adrien Brody Kissing Halle Berry

Oscars are all about movies, but that’s just a ceremony however. In 2003 Adrien Brody forgot that and brought a real movie scene on the stage at the Kodak Theatre. When Halle Berry read his name as Best Actor winner, the great artist passionately embraced her and gave her a fairytale kiss. Helle Berry was well shocked, but she could do nothing but to accept the “thanks gift.” Brody proceeded like nothing happened, by the way.

9. Sally Field Feels the Respect

People say that every “first time” is the one that we remember for life, but Sally Field will remember the second as the best. As the famous actress said, this time she felt that the Academy liked her. In her overemotional speech in 1985 for the role in “Places in the Heart” she said: “I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can’t deny that you like me. Right now, you like me!” Her words became subject of many parodies, but who cares? Sally Field “felt the respect” and that’s what really matters.

10. Jerry Lewis Fills the Gap

Jerry Lewis built his career with the humor and the way of entertaining the audience. His greatness was proven on the Academy Awards in 1958, when he was host of the ceremony. The Best Picture Award was presented twenty minutes earlier than scheduled and a not so small gap appeared. However, Lewis saved the show singing “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” dancing, telling jokes, singing again, dancing again, telling jokes again… until the eternal twenty minutes finally passed by.