KEY POINTS:
Movie stars don't always live up to their celluloid image, and Oscars night is no exception.
It's an evening of soaring emotional melodrama, tantrums and triumph.
Picture it. It's the biggest gig of the year, you've won a coveted golden statue and you suddenly get a case of
verbal diarrhoea, constipation of the brain. It's a disaster.
Who blubbed, who dived into the crowd, and who bored everyone to tears?
Read on for a collection of the best and worst Oscar speeches. Some are hilarious, some poignant, and rest are just plain silly.
THE BEST:
Roberto Benigni
Talk about a showman. This guy was so overwhelmed with his win, he clamoured over seats to get to the stage and screamed: "I am not able to express all my gratitude...I would like to kidnap everybody and lie down making love to everybody!"
Cate Blanchett
"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
Warren Beatty
"The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are business."
Whoopi Goldberg
"No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'Oh, please pick me.'"
Robin Williams
[before opening an envelope] "I feel like Adam when he said to Eve, 'Back up, I don't know how big this gets."
Jack Nicholson
"I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else."
Grace Kelly
"This is one night I wish I smoked and drank."
Kim Basinger
"I just want to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life."
Hilary Swank
"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."
Angelina Jolie
"I'm in shock. And I'm so in love with my brother right now, he just held me and said he loved me."
THE WORST:
James Cameron
"On winning his Oscar for directing Titanic, Cameron uttered the immortal line, "I'm king of the world!"
Gwyneth Paltrow
No words, just lots of tears. Gwyneth Paltrow committed the ultimate sin and cried her way through her lengthy acceptance "speech".
Chris Rock
"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed."
Cate Blanchett
"Thank you to Martin Scorsese. I hope my son will marry your daughter."
Sally Field
"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 the fact that you like me. Right now, you like me!"
Joe Pesci
"It was my privilege. Thank you."
Julia Roberts
"A girl's got to have her moment. Everybody tries to get me to shut up. It didn't work with my parents and it didn't work now."
Jane Fonda
"There's a great deal to say, but I'm not going to say it tonight."
Cameron Crowe
"If they say, 'I don't like your movie,' it's kind of like saying, 'I didn't like your life.' And then they say, 'By the way, it was a little too long."
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
"I love you, Tom Cruise! I love you, brother! I love you, man! Everybody, I love you. I love you all."
