The Award: Best Actor in a Leading Role for Philadelphia
The Speech: Whoops! We love the film and we love Hanks. But Hollywood’s nice guy made a giant faux pas when he accidentally outed one of his high school teachers as “one of the finest gay Americans” while accepting his award. His teacher hadn’t actually come out of the closet at the time...
In a sign of Hollywood’s ability to eat itself, the idea went on to become Kevin Kline dramedy In & Out, for which Joan Cusack was nominated for an Oscar.
Hanks reels it back with an emotional tribute to anybody suffering from AIDS. But it’s all still pretty trite.
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Ali1748
Feb 23rd 2010, 17:06
Cuba's speech wasn't that bad , he just got emotional.
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kaysad
Feb 23rd 2010, 20:04
The lady trying to get Gerda Weissmann Klein off the stage must of felt like s**t afterwards! and the music guys!
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Toursiveu
Feb 23rd 2010, 21:29
Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman's speeches when they won Best Director and Supporting Actor for Unforgiven are just pure class. They made us understand that they don't take all this seriously, they did it with humor and dignity. Worst speech ever in my opinion? Julia Roberts winning for Erin Brockovich. But maybe it's because I just can't stand her...
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bookster8
Feb 23rd 2010, 21:43
oh boo hoo, the precious Oscars were ruined because we had to think about how sexist/racist Hollywood is. cry about it some more.
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mitchsn
Feb 24th 2010, 1:42
#20 Except that Sacheen Littlefeather's real name is Maria Cruz, a Mexican actress.
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dcmcrae
Feb 24th 2010, 4:49
Christ! The worst thing about geeks is that they cant understand feelings and this is such a case! Gwenyth Paltrow was over happy and so was Halle Berry when they won and their reactions were understandable. Grow up, get a life and move out of your parents basement kiddos of Totalfilm.
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