MORNING TEA: The Most Chaotic Awards Show Moments Of All Time
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Good morning, Spillers. My name is Manisha Aswaran, filling in for the wonderful Ash London this morning. And today I've got something a little bit different for you. So one thing that has always fascinated me is just how unhinged awards shows can be. From the unexpected speeches to the onstage feuds and the outfits that launched a thousand headlines, as well as those moments that are just so chaotic they instantly become pop culture history. I feel like so many of those happen at awards shows. So watching them back now feels like stepping into this absolute glorious mayhem of a walk down memory lane. And that's what we're going to do today. So whether you remember seeing these moments live and are ready to relive the chaos, or maybe you've only ever caught the viral clips after the fact, today we are doing a roundup of the most chaotic awards show moments of all time.
Now, it's simply not possible to start this off anywhere other than at the 2022 Oscars with one Will Smith. Yep, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
What chaotic Oscars moment started this roundup of awards show disasters?
That infamous moment where Will Smith walked out on stage and slapped Chris Rock after he joked about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head, referring to her as G.I. Jane. It is pretty hard to forget him yelling this.
Keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth!
The whole thing went down while Chris Rock was presenting and the joke clearly hit close to home because Jada has spoken publicly about her alopecia. Jada and Will have actually been separated since 2016, which is well before this incident happened, but they still aren't legally divorced. Now, later that night, Will Smith actually went on to win Best Actor for King Richard. A strong contrast to what had happened earlier. There was so much back and forth on the internet about whether the whole thing was scripted or a stunt, but I think in hindsight, it's pretty clear to say that it wasn't staged and they wouldn't have decided to enact that before he went on to win Best Actor.
Why did Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars and what happened after?
Okay, now to an awards show moment that really does live rent-free in my head, which took place at the 2015 MTV VMAs, when one Nicki Minaj took aim at Miley Cyrus during her acceptance speech for Best Hip Hop Video, calling her out for some comments that she'd made to the press. And now, back to... This bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press. Miley, what's good? The feud was tied to Miley's interview comments criticizing Nicki's reaction to being shut out of the Video of the Year nominations. But Miley responded saying interviews can be manipulated and congratulating Nicki on the award she had just won. The whole thing happened live in front of a huge audience and apparently producers cut Nicki's mic as she tried to keep talking.
Talk about drama. Now to a story that involves one of my favorite movies of all time, La La Land, and the infamous best picture mix up with Moonlight at the 2017 Oscars. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were presenting, and when Warren opened the envelope, he hesitated because he had been handed the wrong card. Faye ended up reading out La La Land as the winner, And the team actually came up and started their acceptance speeches before the error was corrected. It was so incredibly awkward. A true live TV disaster, and it's remembered as one of the biggest award show blunders in history.
How did Nicki Minaj’s 2015 VMA speech create an on‑stage feud with Miley Cyrus?
Now, speaking of mix-ups, this next one isn't technically an awards show moment, but captures the same spirit of that chaotic mix-up, and that is when, in 2015, Steve Harvey broke the internet by announcing the wrong winner of Miss Universe. He read out the results, crowning Ariadna Gutierrez of Colombia as the winner, but later came back on stage and apologised for reading it wrong, clarifying that the actual winner was Pia Alonso-Werkbach from the Philippines, a moment that spawned many a meme. Now, still to come, we have arguably the most controversial awards show moment of all time, a fashion moment on the red carpet that basically broke the internet, and the kiss that stole the show.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:13
2
What chaotic Oscars moment started this roundup of awards show disasters?
1:13–2:05
3
Why did Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars and what happened after?
2:05–3:27
4
How did Nicki Minaj’s 2015 VMA speech create an on‑stage feud with Miley Cyrus?
3:27–5:10
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What caused the La La Land vs Moonlight Best Picture mix‑up at the 2017 Oscars?
5:10–6:16
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How did Steve Harvey’s 2015 Miss Universe announcement become a global meme?
6:16–7:52
Speakers
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