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From stage crashes to slaps heard 'round the world, award shows have given us no shortage of unforgettable cringe. Join us as we count down the most awkward award show moments of each year since 2000! Which moment made you hide behind your couch cushions?
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00:00Half the room is cringey and the other half is like, I gotta get home and grab my selfie stick.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're taking a look at the most cringe-inducing award show moments of each year
00:10since the start of the new millennium.
00:14The George!
00:16Let's go!
00:182000, Ronnie Wood throws his drink at Brandon Block, the 20th Brit Awards.
00:24At the 2000 Brit Awards, actress Thora Birch and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones presented the prize for Best
00:31Soundtrack Album.
00:32Before they could announce that the winner was Nodding Hill, an intoxicated Brandon Block suddenly ambushed them.
00:38Although the DJ wasn't up for any awards, his friends reportedly told him that he had won Best Musician of
00:44the Year.
00:45Brandon Block!
00:47Bye, mate! Bye!
00:49Bye!
00:50As Block screamed his name into the mic, security attempted to escort him off the stage.
00:56When Block came charging back, Wood threw his drink in his face and the two exchanged insults.
01:01Block was subsequently thrown out of the ceremony, leaving the bewildered audience wondering what the hell had just happened.
01:092001, Elizabeth Taylor.
01:11Are you not entertained?
01:13The 58th Golden Globe Awards.
01:15Elizabeth Taylor is the definition of a screen legend.
01:19Making her more than qualified to present the Best Picture Drama Golden Globe.
01:23Jeff Bridges gave Taylor the introduction she deserved, building her up as one of the all-time greats.
01:29I have the privilege of introducing one of Hollywood's all-time great stars.
01:34Ladies and gentlemen, Dame Elizabeth Taylor!
01:38Taylor received a standing ovation.
01:40And then, well, for somebody who won so many awards during her lifetime, she seemingly forgot how award shows work.
01:48Prematurely opening the envelope, Taylor needed Dick Clark to come on stage and remind her to read the nominees first.
01:54What is this for?
01:55You must read the nominees first.
01:56What's this? Oh, I see.
01:58Taylor proceeded to list off the nominees.
02:00Very slowly and with her words slurred, finally announcing Gladiator as the winner.
02:06And the winner is a splashing envelope.
02:20Gladiator!
02:22Gladiator!
02:22Whether or not Taylor had been drinking as some have speculated, one thing is for certain.
02:28Jinx Monsoon does a dead-on impression of Liz.
02:322002, Michael Jackson's Birthday Award, the 19th MTV Video Music Awards.
02:38To commemorate Michael Jackson's 44th birthday, Britney Spears presented him with a special statue at the 2002 VMAs.
02:46There was some confusion as to why Jackson was receiving this honor, however.
02:50The misunderstanding stemmed from a comment the Princess of Pop made regarding the King of Pop, calling him, quote,
02:56the artist of the millennium.
02:57So, when Jackson took to the stage, he assumed he was accepting the Artist of the Millennium Award, which does
03:03not even exist.
03:04This is really amazing. I can't believe it.
03:07While nobody corrected Jackson during his humble speech, host Jimmy Fallon poked fun at the incident shortly after.
03:13I'd like to accept the Artist of the Millennium Award myself. I guess they're giving him backstage.
03:18Jack Black also parodied the moment one year later, accepting the Super Genius of the Universe Award.
03:242003, Michael Moore takes on the President.
03:27The 75th Academy Awards.
03:30With the Iraq War commencing just days earlier, political tensions were high going into the 2003 Oscars.
03:36Jack Nicholson reportedly suggested that the Best Actor nominees boycott the ceremony,
03:41while director Hayao Miyazaki, who won Best Animated Feature that year, refused to attend.
03:47Uh...
03:48Thanks, but I don't need any more.
03:50Michael Moore was in attendance, however.
03:53And when Bowling for Columbine won Best Documentary Feature, Moore gave the politically charged speech his fans might expect.
04:01Yet nothing could prepare the audience for Moore's comments on George W. Bush,
04:06describing everything about his presidency as fictitious.
04:10The mix of boos and applause only made Moore's speech more uncomfortable.
04:14All I said was is that I thought we were being lied to about this thing about weapons of mass
04:19destruction,
04:19and seeing how I made a movie about weapons of destruction seemed like an appropriate thing to say.
04:25Moore didn't get to finish his speech at the Oscars,
04:27but he'd finally share the rest at the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards almost 15 years later.
04:342004.
04:35Michael Douglas' tribute goes on forever.
04:38The 61st Golden Globe Awards.
04:40Michael Douglas has had a storied career,
04:43and you definitely felt its length when he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
04:48Danny DeVito and Sharon Stone spent nearly 10 minutes reminiscing about Douglas' cinematic contributions,
04:54complete with drawn-out clips.
04:56I've known Michael Douglas longer than some men's wives have been alive.
05:04This might be acceptable at the Governor's Awards or the AFI Life Achievement Awards,
05:09but the Golden Globes are already lengthy enough,
05:12with nearly two dozen other statues to hand out.
05:15Then, when Douglas' tribute finally wrapped up,
05:18it suddenly dawned on the audience that he still needed to give a speech.
05:22Thank you so much to the foreign press.
05:24Yes, this is always a lovely evening.
05:28The drink doesn't hurt.
05:29He did not keep it short.
05:31After nearly 20 minutes of squirming in their seats and checking their watches,
05:36the uncomfortable viewers breathed a sigh of relief as they cut to commercial.
05:412005.
05:42Donald Trump Sings with Karen Walker.
05:44The 57th Primetime Emmy Awards.
05:48Capitalizing on American Idol,
05:49the 2005 Emmy telecast had some of TV's biggest stars sing popular theme songs.
05:55They kicked off Emmy Idol with Donald Trump,
05:58then best known for The Apprentice,
05:59and Megan Mullally in character as Karen Walker.
06:03The song?
06:03The Green Acres theme,
06:05with Donald trading his blue suit and red tie for farmer attire.
06:10Let's talk.
06:12Let's share.
06:14Trump Tower.
06:15You are my wife.
06:17Goodbye, city line.
06:18Watching this cringy spectacle,
06:20we all thought the same thing.
06:2211 years from now,
06:24that man is going to be elected president,
06:26and Will and Grace will be revived shortly after.
06:28While Trump never won a competitive Emmy,
06:31he did share in this Emmy Idol win,
06:34which even Mullally regrets.
06:35We really needed to win that,
06:38and we did.
06:39And you were a big part of that,
06:40and so I just wanted to say thank you.
06:41We really needed to win that thing.
06:43And I'm thinking,
06:43okay, wait,
06:44if he needs to win Emmy Idol that bad,
06:47what must it be like now?
06:49Quite frankly,
06:50Kristen Bell should have won for her fame rendition,
06:52but Trump is known for beating more qualified candidates.
06:562006.
06:57Melody Out of Harmony.
06:59The 34th American Music Awards.
07:01Other than a chair falling over,
07:03the Pussycat Dolls performance at the 2006 AMA's
07:06almost went off without a hitch.
07:08Well, you loosen up my buttons,
07:11but you keep running out.
07:13Then, with less than a minute left,
07:15Melody Thornton stormed onto the stage.
07:17If you forgot that this group had a sixth member,
07:20you definitely remembered as Thornton started singing off-pitch
07:23over Nicole Scherzinger.
07:25The performance left many feeling confused,
07:27and probably pressed a few buttons.
07:30You keep running out.
07:32I'll turn you into the music of AMA's.
07:36Come on, now.
07:39But you keep running.
07:41Baby.
07:4214 years later,
07:43Thornton explained that a lost passport
07:45caused her to miss rehearsals,
07:47landing shortly before the show.
07:49So, if you thought Thornton's grand finale
07:51looked unrehearsed,
07:52that's because it was.
07:53It is what it is.
07:54You just hammer through.
07:55Feeling worthless in the group,
07:57Thornton went solo a few years later,
07:59and announced that she wasn't taking part in the reunion.
08:09Some award show moments hurt to watch
08:12because they're so embarrassing.
08:14This one hurts to watch because it involves actual physical pain.
08:17Here are three of the hottest tea idols around,
08:20and my friends,
08:21the Jonas Brothers!
08:23When the Jonas Brothers kicked off their performance of SOS
08:26at the 2007 American Music Awards,
08:28glass panels shattered right before they walked down the stage.
08:31Joe, in the middle,
08:32took a bit of a tumble,
08:34falling on the broken glass.
08:38But he didn't let pain get in the way of performing.
08:41To reference SOS,
08:43you better believe Joe Bled.
08:50According to the singer,
08:52he didn't even realize how bad he was bleeding
08:54until he got backstage.
08:56The Jonas Brothers cool factor
08:57definitely went up in this moment,
08:59even if the tumble was a little awkward.
09:08Falling once is embarrassing,
09:10but it's easy enough to recover from.
09:12Two or three times is a little more difficult.
09:15But four times?
09:24That's what happened to Katy Perry
09:25at the Latin America iteration of the VMAs.
09:28When her performance of I Kissed a Girl concluded,
09:30Perry belly flopped into a huge pink cake
09:33and started throwing it into the crowd.
09:42Then, after playfully tossing some cake on her guitarist,
09:45Perry slipped four times on the icing,
09:48getting up and falling down again and again,
09:50albeit grinning the whole way through.
09:57By the end,
09:58she seemed to just give up and crawl instead.
10:05All this to say that a successful award show performance
10:08is not always a piece of cake.
10:112009.
10:12I'ma let you finish.
10:13The 26th MTV Video Music Awards.
10:17Somehow,
10:18this makes Sacha Baron Cohen
10:19flying onto Eminem's face feel restrained.
10:23What's up?
10:25Eminem, nice to meet you.
10:26You serious?
10:27After Taylor Swift won the VMA for Best Female Video,
10:30Kanye West jumped on stage
10:32and snatched the microphone out of her hands,
10:34declaring that Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
10:38I'm really happy for you.
10:40I'ma let you finish.
10:40But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
10:44West was booed off stage
10:45while Swift cried her eyes out backstage,
10:48forcing Beyoncé to do some damage control.
10:51The moment immediately sparked countless parodies,
10:54memes,
10:54and discussions.
10:55In response to West's behavior,
10:57U.S. President Barack Obama called him a jackass,
11:00while future President Donald Trump called for a Kanye boycott.
11:04Well, there's one thing Obama and Trump could agree on.
11:06Meanwhile,
11:07West also nearly repeated himself
11:08at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards
11:11when Beck won Album of the Year.
11:142010,
11:14Lady Gaga's Meat Dress,
11:16the 27th MTV Video Music Awards.
11:19When a dress is displayed in a museum
11:22and even gets a Wikipedia page,
11:24that must mean it's either a revelation of fashion
11:27or a head-scratching misfire.
11:29I never thought I'd be asking Cher to hold my meat purse.
11:33And I promised if I won this tonight,
11:36I'd announce the name of my new record.
11:41It's called Born This Way.
11:43Where does this meat dress place?
11:45That kind of depends who you ask,
11:47but when Lady Gaga accepted Video of the Year
11:49in this raw flank steak ensemble,
11:51you could hear Jaws across the globe hitting the floor.
11:55While Gaga was already famed
11:56for her elaborate fashion stunts,
11:58this was so out there
12:00that a lot of people still don't know what to think.
12:02Of course, vegans have their opinion.
12:04Gaga would explain that the dress
12:06is a statement about fighting for your rights.
12:08If we don't stand up for what we believe in,
12:10if we don't fight for our rights,
12:12pretty soon we're going to have as much rights
12:14as the meat on our bones.
12:15While the message is strong,
12:17it might have been overshadowed
12:19by this moment's sheer absurdity.
12:222011, Ricky Gervais mocks the tourist,
12:24the 68th Golden Globe Awards.
12:27If you hire Ricky Gervais to host your award show,
12:30you're going to get some pretty sharp remarks.
12:33Welcome to the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards,
12:36live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
12:39It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking.
12:42During his monologue at the 68th Golden Globe Awards,
12:45the comedian snarked about The Tourist,
12:47a critically panned thriller
12:49starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie
12:51that somehow received three Golden Globe nominations.
12:54Despicable Me, Tron,
12:56seems like everything this year was three-dimensional,
12:59except the characters in The Tourist.
13:01Gervais not so subtly implied
13:03it only received the nominations
13:05out of star power and voter bribery.
13:07But the only reason The Tourist was nominated
13:09was so the Hollywood foreign press
13:11could hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
13:13That is rubbish.
13:15That is not the only reason.
13:17They also accepted bribes.
13:18His jokes were met with either muted reactions
13:22or surprised laughter.
13:23There was really no in-between.
13:25Tough room at the Golden Globes, apparently.
13:28All that happened was some of them
13:30were taken to see Cher in concert.
13:32How the hell is that a bribe?
13:34The tourist went home empty-handed,
13:36but Gervais and his rabble-rousing style
13:39returned to host the Golden Globes three more times.
13:422012, the original Envelope Gate,
13:46the 39th Annie Awards.
13:47About five years before another Envelope mix-up,
13:51Animation's Biggest Night had a similar fiasco.
13:54Presenting Best Animated Television Production, Preschool,
13:57actress Brittany Snow announced the winner,
13:59The Amazing World of Gumball.
14:01Almost everyone quickly realized
14:03that something was amiss,
14:05seeing as how Gumball wasn't even a nominee.
14:08Wait, what?
14:09There's the aliens.
14:12And history has been made.
14:16Wait, what?
14:18Gumball actually won Best Animated Television Production, Children,
14:22which was supposed to be announced later.
14:23Host Patton Oswalt hurried onto the stage,
14:26explaining the situation with some well-timed one-liners
14:29and embracing the awkwardness of it all.
14:31An envelope was opened early,
14:33so before the demons begin to attack,
14:37we're going to actually have these winners come up.
14:40Yeah, we'll have these winners come up.
14:42It's okay.
14:43And they're gonna get their Annie Award.
14:46Before having the Gumball crew come up and accept,
14:49Patton cracked a few more jokes
14:50at co-presenter Jason Marsden's expense
14:52and assured Snow it was all right.
14:55It's not like she was presenting
14:56Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
14:592013, Miguel meets an audience member,
15:02the 20th Billboard Music Awards.
15:04R&B singer Miguel makes the perfect music
15:07for intimate moments,
15:08but not the kind that happened
15:10at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.
15:18While performing his hit song Adorn,
15:21Miguel leapt over the crowd
15:22onto a different part of the stage.
15:24However, it wasn't a smooth landing,
15:26as he landed crotch first
15:28into an audience member's face,
15:30also hitting her with his leg.
15:32She appears to brush off the incident all right,
15:34and Miguel keeps on singing.
15:36He perfectly demonstrates that
15:38as long as you play it cool,
15:39it doesn't have to be awkward.
15:40But hopefully he practiced
15:42his onstage acrobatics after this.
15:44I'm really happy to bring
15:46my new friend, Kiaty, we just met.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Unfortunately, we met under
15:50not the best circumstances.
15:522014, Adele Dazeem,
15:55the 86th Academy Awards.
15:57If you're a Broadway fan,
15:59you know Idina Menzel for her work
16:00in musicals like Rent and Wicked.
16:02For mainstream audiences,
16:04it was Menzel's voiceover performance
16:06as Elsa in Frozen
16:07that made her a household name.
16:09However,
16:09John Travolta still couldn't
16:11get her name right
16:11at the 2014 Academy Awards.
16:14Before Menzel performed
16:15the Oscar-winning Let It Go,
16:17Travolta introduced her as,
16:19the wickedly talented
16:21one and only Adele Dazeem.
16:23Oh, by the way,
16:24we've changed
16:25Idina's name
16:26to phonetic spelling.
16:27But what do you mean?
16:29Go!
16:30This flub was so bad,
16:31it actually inspired
16:32an Adele Dazeem name generator,
16:34allowing people
16:35to Travolta-fy their names.
16:37Making light of the mistake,
16:39Menzel playfully turned the tables
16:40the following year,
16:42announcing Travolta
16:43as Glom Gazingo.
16:44It threw me a little bit.
16:46How many times a day?
16:46But now it's the best thing
16:47that's ever happened.
16:48Yeah, but now of course it is.
16:55You're bound to find
16:56plenty of cleavage
16:57at virtually any award show.
16:59The key is to not point it out,
17:01but Golden Globes
17:02is a rather suggestive name.
17:04So when Jennifer Lopez
17:05sported a revealing dress
17:06at the 2015 ceremony,
17:08Jeremy Renner
17:09could not resist
17:10connecting the dots.
17:11The Golden Globe goes to...
17:13You want to open it?
17:14You want me to do it?
17:14Yeah.
17:15I have the nails.
17:15Yeah, get after it.
17:17You got the Globes too.
17:19Um...
17:20Presenting an award together,
17:22Lopez mentioned
17:23that she had the nails
17:24to open the envelope,
17:25to which Renner added
17:26that she had the Globes as well.
17:29Igniting laughter and shock,
17:30the comment arguably overshadowed
17:32Billy Bob Thornton's win.
17:34During his speech,
17:35Thornton mentioned
17:36that you can get into
17:36a lot of trouble,
17:37quote,
17:38no matter what you say.
17:39It's a reminder Renner
17:40probably wishes
17:41he'd heard sooner.
17:432016,
17:44Leo's Look at Lady,
17:46the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.
17:49Several years after
17:50the meat dress,
17:51Lady Gaga stunned
17:52in Versace
17:52at the Golden Globes.
17:57Where are you, Gaga?
17:59Help me.
18:02While it wasn't
18:03her most eccentric outfit,
18:04Gaga inspired
18:05at least one
18:06head-turning look,
18:07courtesy of Leonardo DiCaprio.
18:09As Gaga slid behind him
18:11on her way to the stage,
18:12DiCaprio's laughter
18:13turned to surprise
18:14with a cringey expression.
18:16The moment went by
18:17so quickly
18:18that the average viewer
18:19might have missed it
18:20at first.
18:21If the internet
18:22is known for one thing,
18:23though,
18:24it's turning a brief
18:25Leonardo DiCaprio gesture
18:26into a viral moment.
18:28Although some assumed
18:30he was throwing shade,
18:31DiCaprio explained
18:32that he didn't know
18:33what was passing him.
18:34That's trending, huh?
18:35That's trending, yeah.
18:36You see how quick it happens.
18:37I just didn't know
18:38what was passing me,
18:38that's all.
18:39The two were reportedly
18:40seen laughing it up
18:41at the after party,
18:42although the GIF
18:44remains an awkward
18:45time capsule.
18:472017
18:47Wrong Best Picture Winner
18:49announced
18:50the 89th Academy Awards.
18:52Something was clearly
18:54amiss at the 2017 Oscars
18:56when Warren Beatty
18:57hesitated to announce
18:58the Best Picture Winner.
18:59If you turned off
19:00your television
19:00after Faye Dunaway
19:02declared La La Land
19:03victorious,
19:04you missed a landmark moment
19:05in live television.
19:07After a few minutes
19:07on stage,
19:08the La La Land
19:09producers announced
19:10there was a mix-up
19:11and Moonlight
19:12had actually won.
19:13Host Jimmy Kimmel
19:14jokingly blamed
19:15Steve Harvey,
19:16but it was apparently
19:17PWC accountant
19:18Brian Cullinan
19:19who handed Beatty
19:19the wrong envelope.
19:20The second you will
19:21give that award out
19:23you shred the other card.
19:24While the crews
19:25from La La Land
19:26and Moonlight
19:26both acted graciously,
19:28the fiasco
19:29rocked Hollywood
19:30like never before.
19:31What makes this moment
19:32even more surreal
19:33is that Bojack Horseman
19:34totally saw it coming.
19:36Okay, now where's the...
19:38The...
19:38Uh-oh.
19:39Could have sworn
19:40it was right here.
19:412018
19:41James Franco
19:43silences Tommy Wiseau
19:44the 75th Golden Globe Awards.
19:47Tommy Wiseau
19:48supposedly kept the room
19:49running for two extra weeks
19:51to qualify for
19:52Academy Award consideration.
19:54Needless to say,
19:55his cult classic
19:55received no love
19:56from the Oscars.
19:57About a decade
19:58and a half later though,
19:59Wiseau got to attend
20:00the Golden Globes
20:02when the disaster artist
20:03picked up
20:04multiple nominations.
20:05After James Franco
20:06won the award
20:07for his portrayal
20:07of Wiseau,
20:08he kindly invited him
20:10to come up
20:10on stage.
20:14As Wiseau
20:15tried grabbing
20:16the microphone,
20:17Franco playfully
20:18pushed him aside.
20:19He probably wanted
20:20to avoid
20:20an awkward moment,
20:21but silencing Wiseau
20:23was ironically
20:23awkward in itself.
20:25Had he gotten to speak,
20:26Wiseau claims
20:26he would have encouraged
20:27people to love each other.
20:302019
20:30Emma Stone
20:31apologizes
20:32the 76th Golden Globe Awards. Hollywood has made great strides for diversity in recent years
20:39with films like Crazy Rich Asians. However, that doesn't undo the mistakes that the industry was
20:44still making only a few years earlier. Co-hosting the Golden Globes, Sandra Oh confronted the
20:59problematic casting of Ghost in the Shell, which enlisted Scarlett Johansson over an Asian lead,
21:04and Aloha, which starred Emma Stone as a captain who's supposed to be part Chinese and Hawaiian.
21:16Stone was in attendance that night, having been nominated for the favorite. Although the camera
21:21didn't cut to her, Stone could be heard shouting, I'm sorry, in the distance.
21:29American lead since Ghost in the Shell and Aloha.
21:35The joke itself is biting, but having Stone present elevated the moment to another level
21:42of hilarious awkwardness. 2020, Ricky Gervais doesn't care. The 77th Golden Globe Awards.
21:49After a four-year absence, Ricky Gervais returned to host the Golden Globes for what he claimed would
21:55be his last time. As such, Gervais didn't care who he offended. Not that he ever cared that much to
22:01begin with.
22:01You'll be pleased to know this is the last time I'm hosting these awards, so I don't care anymore.
22:09I'm joking. I never did.
22:11Gervais' shots at Joe Pesci and Martin Scorsese's height could be seen as nice compared to his jokes
22:16about the movie Cats. Gervais took no prisoners, and we're not just talking about Felicity Huffman,
22:22Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. Remember, they're just jokes. We're all gonna die soon,
22:28and there's no sequel. So, yeah, remember that. He called out all of Hollywood for the lack of
22:36diversity, media giants taking over everything, and hypocritical celebrities using their acceptance
22:41speeches to push political agendas. Gervais received plenty of awkward looks, although Tom Hanks easily
22:48gave us the most meme-worthy reactions. 2021. Ending with Best Actor was a big mistake.
22:55The 93rd Academy Awards. After Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor at the BAFTAs, it appeared the late
23:01Chadwick Boseman might not be the Oscar frontrunner.
23:04What I care about bad luck? You talking something. I ain't had no bad luck all my life, couldn't get
23:11no worse. What the hell I care about some bad luck? Hell, I eat it every day for breakfast.
23:15At this point, the Oscar producers should have reconsidered saving Best Actor for last.
23:19They stayed the course, however, hoping to end with a heartfelt speech from Boseman's widow,
23:25Taylor Simone Ledward. Well, an absent Hopkins one.
23:28And that's it. So that was it. That's how the show ended. And of course, Twitter exploded
23:33with how Chadwick was robbed. Whoever you think gave the better performance,
23:37abruptly ending on this note was uncomfortable for everybody, especially Boseman's family and
23:43Hopkins, who subsequently recorded a speech. And at 83 years of age, I did not expect
23:49to get this award. I really didn't. And I'm very grateful to the Academy and thank you.
23:56It'd be one thing if the Academy acknowledged that this was a misfire. Instead, co-producer
24:01Steven Soderbergh doubled down, saying, quote,
24:04if Boseman were to win and his widow were to speak on his behalf, there would be nowhere to go
24:09after that. 2022, The Pursuit of Slappiness, the 94th Academy Awards. It was the slap heard
24:18round the world, except the censored parts.
24:20The feed goes silent, and so does the audience after Will Smith takes a swing at Chris
24:25Rock on stage at the Oscars. The 2022 Oscars took a turn after Chris Rock compared Jada
24:33Pinkett Smith's shaved head to G.I. Jane. Since Pinkett Smith has alopecia, nobody would have
24:38blamed Will Smith if he called out Rock on social media. Instead, Smith literally took matters into
24:44his own hands, slapping Rock in front of 16 million viewers. Things immediately turn sour as he takes
24:51to the stage, slapping Chris straight across the face. Smith essentially confirmed that this wasn't
24:58a bit, as he cursed Rock out. It was hard to move past this display, especially since Smith later won
25:05Best Actor, describing himself as a, quote, vessel for love. Smith has released an apology, but what
25:11should have been the pinnacle of his career will now be remembered for one little fight.
25:172023, Ariana DeBose Wraps, the 76th British Academy Film Awards.
25:32Ariana DeBose is an immense talent. We would never dispute that. When the Hamilton alum opened the 76th
25:39annual BAFTAs, she paid tribute to the women nominated for awards that night. While the
25:43performance was vocally electric and high energy, it was DeBose's rapping that really made headlines.
25:56There are really so many elements at play that make this performance so awkward. For one,
26:02DeBose is out of breath through the whole rap. Then there's the awkward lyrics. Finally, cutting to the
26:08female nominees looking confused is just the icing on the cake.
26:12One of us is here alone. All these queens, we need a bigger throne. How's about to,
26:16the vibe is strong. Be true to you. You can't go wrong.
26:202024, Joe Coy's Monologue, the 81st Golden Globes.
26:25Her portrayal of the queen was so good, Prince Harry called her for it and asked her for money.
26:31Like I said, I didn't write all these.
26:33Look, the Golden Globes hosting gig is a tough job. Whoever agrees to take it on will forever be
26:38criticized for not being named Ricky Gervais, Amy Poehler, or Tina Fey. That being said, the reception
26:43to Joe Coy's hosting work in 2024 was low by any standards. His monologue in particular was
26:49criticized for being unfunny, as well as receiving accusations of having sexist jokes.
26:54Oppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project.
27:01And Barbie is on a plastic doll with big boobies. To make matters worse, he also threw blame onto his
27:08joke writers when one of his punchlines didn't land. While many comedians came out to defend Coy,
27:14the hosting job didn't quite boost his career in the way that he may have hoped.
27:18Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up. You're kidding me, right?
27:27Slow down. I wrote some of these and they're the ones you're laughing at. Look.
27:312025. Emilia Perez songwriters try to conduct a sing-along, the 97th Academy Awards.
27:52Jacque Odia's crime thriller musical Emilia Perez was extremely divisive when it was released in 2024.
27:58Filmmakers and industry professionals sung its praises, while general audiences on the other hand
28:03were more negative towards the film. By the time the 97th annual Academy Awards came around,
28:08the film had largely lost much of its momentum as a front-runner for the awards.
28:28After winning for Best Original Song for El Mal, songwriters Clément Zuccol and Camille gave their
28:34acceptance speech before beginning to excitedly sing the film's title. Their singing fizzles out when it
28:40becomes clear that the audience of their peers isn't exactly singing back.
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29:002026. Is that Jim Carrey? The 51st Cesar Awards.
29:12Oh, bonsoir.
29:14Accepting an honorary Cesar at the French awards ceremony, comedian Jim Carrey stunned everybody,
29:19looking nearly unrecognizable as he got on stage to present his speech.
29:23Carrey has been largely absent from the spotlight in recent years,
29:26with roles in films and red carpet appearances being more of a rarity after announcing somewhat
29:31of a soft retirement in 2022. Nevertheless, Carrey's appearance has been the talk of the town since
29:36accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2026, with people raising theories
29:41ranging from him using a stand-in to it all being an elaborate prank. In reality, it's likely just
29:47a lot of cosmetic work.
30:00Did you have to look away from your screen for any of these awkward moments? Let us know in the
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