Oscar moments everyone should see

Slide show: Streakers, scandals, political outbursts -- the greatest scenes from the big awards show

Published February 26, 2011 1:01AM (EST)

Clockwise from top left: Tom Hanks, Sacheen Littlefeather, Christopher Reeve, Louise Fletcher
Clockwise from top left: Tom Hanks, Sacheen Littlefeather, Christopher Reeve, Louise Fletcher

This Sunday, millions of people around the world will be gathering around their TV screens to watch the Academy Awards. Yes, of course: the yearly Oscar broadcast is long and slow and crass, and more about commerce than art -- and dear God, those musical numbers!

But sometimes they're also infuriating. And hilarious. And wonderful.

Here are our picks for the ten greatest moments since the network TV started broadcasting the Academy Awards in 1952. Please add your own in the Letters section.


By Matt Zoller Seitz

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