Photos: Academy Awards – Best Oscar Moments
February 20, 2013
Oscar host and comedian Billy Crystal peers through the podium as he introduces the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Category during the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium 23 March in Los Angeles. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Ben Affleck (L) and Matt Damon hold up their Oscars after winning in the Original Screenplay Category during the 70th Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium 23 March. The two won for their Original Screenplay "Good Will Hunting." TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
In this 1969 photo, US actor John Wayne accepts his Best Actor Oscar from US singer and actress Barbara Streisand. Wayne won for his role in "True Grit." The 100th anniversary of Wayne's birth is being observed 26 May 2007. Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. His career began in silent movies in the 1920s and was a major star from the 1940s to the 1970s. He died 11 June 1979. STAFF/AFP/Getty Images
Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr holds up his Oscar after winning the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in "Jerry Maguire" during the 69th Academy Awards 24 March. The awards are being held in the Shrine Auditorium. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Presenters Rose Byrne (L) and Melissa McCarthy speak onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Actor Val Kilmer walks out with a horse after he introduced a special segment in honor of singing cowboys Roy Rogers and Gene Autry during the 71st Academy Awards 21 March 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, CA. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
US actor Tom Hanks holds up his Oscar as he drinks a glass of water while attending the Governor's Ball after the 67th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles 27 March. Hanks won as best actor for his role in the film "Forrest Gump" which also won five other awards, including best film and best director. Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images
Best Actress winner Halle Berry and Best Actor winner Denzel Washington holds their Oscar statuetes backstage at the 74th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Ca., March 24, 2002. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/GettyImages)
Actor Robin Williams holds up his Oscar after winning in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category during the 70th Academy Awards 23 March at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Williams won for his role as a psychotherapist helping a troubled math genius in "Good Will Hunting." TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Host Whoopi Goldberg -- dressed as Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth I -- opens the 71st Academy Awards 21 March 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
US director Steven Spielberg poses with his two Oscars 21 March 1994 in Los Angeles, CA during the 66th Annual Academy Awards ceremony after winning the 1993 wards for best director and best picture for his movie "Schindler's List." Spielberg had been nominated for best director three times in the past but had never won an Oscar. DAN GROSHONG/AFP/Getty Images
Actor Ben Stiller presents Achievement in Visual Effects on stage during the 78th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on March 5, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actress Julia Roberts celebrates her Oscar win for Best Actress for her role in "Erin Brokovich" at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA, 25 March, 2001. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Host Hugh Jackman and actress Anne Hathaway during the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
US actor Tom Hanks poses with his Oscar 21 March during the 66th Annual Academy Awards ceremony after winning the 1993 award for best actor for his performance in the movie "Philadelphia." TIMOTHY CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Host Ellen DeGeneres wears an oscar onstage during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on February 25, 2007 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actors Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell perform during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on February 25, 2007 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actor Ben Stiller presents onstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
US actress Halle Berry accepts her Oscar for Best performance by an actress in a leading role during the 74th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood 24 March 2002. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Gwyenth Paltrow cries as she receives the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in "Shakespeare in Love" during the 71st Academy Awards 21 March 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Director James Cameron raises his Oscar after winning in the Best Director Category during the 70th Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium 23 March. Cameron won for his movie "Titanic." TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Actress Jennifer Garner stumbles as she presents the Achievement in Sound Editing award on stage during the 78th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on March 5, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Kate Ledger (C), sister of late Heath Ledger, accepts the award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Dark Night" with father Kim (L) and mother Sally (R) during the 81st Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actor Adrien Brody kisses presenter Actress Halle Berry as he accepts his Oscar for Performance by an actor in a leading role for his role in "The Pianist" during the 75th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, 23 March, 2003. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Director Kathryn Bigelow accepts Best Director award for "The Hurt Locker" onstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Animal activist Ric O'Barry (L) and director Louie Psihoyos accept Best Documentary Feature award for "The Cove" onstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Italian actor Roberto Benigni (L) and Hilary Swank joke at the Academy Awards presentation 26 March 2000. Swank won for Best Actress for her role in "Boys Don't Cry". AFP PHOTO/Scott NELSON (Scott Nelson/AFP/Getty Images
The 22 Oscars won by the Lord of The Rings sit on a table in front of the 3000 assembled fans that turned out to see director Peter Jackson and the Return of The King winners during Wellington city's Oscar celebration at the Queens Wharf Event Centre, Wellington 18 March 2004. Seventeen of the Oscar winners were present with their 22 Oscars. DEAN TREML/AFP/Getty Images
Protestors demonstrate 21 March 1999 in Los Angeles against the Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented to US film director Elia Kazan during the 71st Annual Academy Awards. The award to Kazan, who directed "On the Waterfront", has angered many stars who recall how he destroyed careers when he "named names" before the US House Un-American Activities Committee's infamous 1950's probe of communists in Hollywood. HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images
Nunzio Giganti uses a compressed air sprayer to dry an Oscar statuette after pulling it from a gold-plating solution at R.S. Owens in Chicago, Illinois, 02 February. The statuettes are cast, polished and plated with copper, nickel, silver and then gold in preparation for the upcoming Academy Awards to be presented in Los Angeles 21 March. JOHN ZICH/AFP/Getty Images
An 80-foot high Oscar statue lies in a truck before being unloaded in front of the Shrine Auditorium where the 69th Annual Academy Awards will take place 24 March. The Oscar is the highest honor given out to those in the movie industry. MIKE NELSON/AFP/Getty Images
Claire Chang, a representative of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, prepares the final Oscar ballots for mailing to members of the academy 04 March who will decide this year's winners of the Academy Awards. The Oscar show will take place 24 March in Los Angeles. HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images
Replicas of Oscar statues are lit in the night outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 19 March 1999 in Los Angeles ahead of the 71st Academy Awards to be held 21 March 1999 at the Pavilion. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Jessica Chastain, best actress nominee for her role in "Zero Dark Thirty", arrives at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson ( OSCARS/ )
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane watches William Shatner on a screen during the opening segment of the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni ( OSCARS/ )
From second left, actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth MacFarlane and Daniel Radcliffe perform onstage during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) ( 85th Academy Awards ??? Show )
Host Seth MacFarlane speaks onstage during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) ( 162549411 )
Actress Jennifer Lawrence reacts after winning the Best Actress award for "Silver Linings Playbook" during the Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) ( 162596339 )
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