The Oscars honor moving performances and the highest acheivements in the film industry. But the ceremony itself? Never perfect, nor even close to it.
The comedic writing for the show often seems to falter, even with a good host, or hosts who seem good in theory (see: Anne Hathaway and James Franco).
Since the Oscar ceremony is brought to our living rooms as a live telecast, mistakes are bound to happen. Celebrites are people, too after all.
Throughout the Oscars' 88-year history (coming up on 89), there have been plenty of uncomfortable, weird, and just offensive moments that made everyone at home and at the ceremony itself feel very awkward.
Here are the most awkward moments throughout Oscar history:
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"Adele Dazeem"
In 2014, John Travolta introduced legendary singer Idina Menzel’s performance of “Let It Go” from "Frozen." For some reason, he called her "Adele Dazeem" with a weird accent. It immediately spawned many, many jokes on social media. A year later, Travolta and Dazeem — ahem, Menzel — presented together as a joke, and he kept touching her face.
Jennifer Lawrence's fall
At the 2013 Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence got her first win for best actress for “Silver Linings Playbook." Dressed in a white and wide Dior gown, she tripped on her way up to the stage. In an act of notable chivalry, Hugh Jackman popped up from his seat to assist her, as did the presenter, best actor winner Jean Dujardin ("The Artist").
When she got a standing ovation, Lawrence joked that people were only doing it because they felt bad that she fell.
Seth Macfarlane 'saw your boobs'
Seth Macfarlane hosted the Oscars in 2013 and got a generally terrible reception from Hollywood and viewers across the country. The New Yorker called it a “hostile, ugly, sexist night.”
Macfarlane opened the ceremony with a song called "We Saw Your Boobs," which called out actresses in the audience who had shown their boobs in movies. The whole bit demeaned serious actresses for serious roles in serious movies (some of the movies he pointed out involved rape scenes), just because they happened to be topless at some point.
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