RRR wins for Will Smith slapping: 5 viral moments from Oscars in last five years
The Oscar 2025 ceremony is on us, and it only seems suitable for quick recurrence of the viral moments of the prize in the last five years. Oscar 2025 will be held on 3 March (IST).
The Oscar 2025 ceremony is on us, and what is the better way to get ready for a grand phenomenon compared to quick recurrence of some of its most viral moments in the last five years? From the notorious Slapgate controversy, characterized by comedian and hosts Chris Rock and Superstar Will Smith, after winning his best original song to take RRR on the stage of the academy in 2023, after winning his best original song, here is a refresher that went down.
Oscar 2020
The Oscar was about 2020 parasitic fever, and the director Bong was about June-Ho as his film won the Oscars in many categories, including the best screenplay, the best international feature film, the best director and the best pictures. The filmmaker gave a melodious and blessed acceptance speech, which quickly captured the Internet.
Oscar 2021
Filmmaker Cloo Jhao won the Best Director Oscar for her film Nomalland, and became the first woman to do so. Jhao’s nomads also won the best pictures that year.
Jhao’s speech was personal, yet it was a timeless, universal and inspirational element about it. A part of it went as follows:
I have recently been thinking a lot how I am walking when I become difficult. And I think, I think it goes back to what I had learned when I was a child. My father and I used to play this game when I was growing up in China. We will remember classic Chinese poems and texts, and we will read it together and try to eliminate each other’s sentences. And there is one I remember a lot. This is called “three character classics”. And the first phrase goes: Rain Zee Chu, ENung Ben Sh N. “People are naturally good at birth.” And those six letters had such an impact on me when I was a child, and I still really believe them. Even though it may seem that the opposite is true, but I have always got goodness among the people I have met, everywhere I went to the world. So it is for anyone (holding the Oscar), who has faith and courage to catch goodness in itself, and to catch goodness in each other, no matter how difficult it is to do.
Oscar 2022
No one can forget the controversial incident that includes comedian and presenter Chris Rock and actor Will Smith. In 2022, Smith slapped Rock after a joke about the alopecia of Smith’s wife and actor Jada Pinket Smith. As a result, the actor was banned from participating in any Oscar event for a decade. Smith has apologized since then.
Oscar 2023
Oscar 2023 was special for every Indian, thanks to the victory for his film RRR’s best original song (Natu Natu). Prior to the announcement, it also had a dance performance, which made it even more special.
Everything everywhere at once K Hu Quan’s best supportive actor won the film for his stellar turn, and his heart -wrenching acceptance speech gets a respectable mention.
Oscar 2024
And about last year, well, it was not an acceptance speech or anything that stole the spotlight, but former wrestling star and actor John Cena spoke on the internet while turning in his birthday suit. The presence of Cena in that almost naked state was clearly a reference to a scary event in 1974.
Cena did not wear anything other than an award envelope to announce the Best Costume Design Award from Bidbana. Designer Holi Waddington took one for Emma Watson-Starrer poor things.
The 97th Academy Awards will be held on 3 March (IST), and we cannot help such entertaining (ever controversial) moments from the upcoming Grand Night.
