25 Incredible Oscar Moments In Soon-To-Be Unaired Categories

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The Academy is planning on cutting eight awards from the telecast. Here’s why they should #PresentAll23 categories.

As you may have heard, the Academy Awards are just around the corner! The nominations are out, and the ceremony is on March 27.

The move has already drawn heavy criticism from those inside and outside of the industry alike. This is unsurprising, as the Academy tried to pull a similar move in 2019, which received so much blowback it was forced to air all categories as usual.

In hopes that the Academy will see the error of their ways, reverse course, and #PresentAll23, here are a list of moments from Oscars past that we would have missed out on had they cut the eight proposed categories.


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The eight categories they plan to axe are Best Documentary Short Subject, Film Editing, Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, and Sound. 

Here are 25 reasons they should keep all 23 categories on the telecast:

1.

Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson make history by becoming the first Black winners (along with Sergio Lopez-Rivera) for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

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Mia Neal thanks her ancestors in a moving speech as she emotionally looks forward to other minorities, including Black trans women, winning Oscars. As many categories still largely include straight, white, and male nominees, it is often in the crafts and shorts categories where diversity has been able to push through. By eliminating eight categories from the telecast, those are eight more places where the Academy can continue to silence minority filmmakers and the films telling their stories. 

Watch Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on Netflix. 

2.

Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein gave a moving speech when One Survivor Remembers won Best Documentary Short in 1996.

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The survivor was the subject of the documentary and stayed onstage to give a moving speech even after the play-off music had sounded for the film’s creator. 

Watch One Survivor Remembers on HBO Max. 

3.

Elinor Burkett interrupts Roger Ross Williams in the middle of his acceptance speech for documentary short Music for Prudence in 2010.

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The two producers had had a falling out during the making of the film but were still both eligible for the award. Williams assumed he’d be giving the speech, but Burke had other plans. “The man never lets the woman talk,” she said. “Isn’t that just the classic thing?”

Watch Music for Prudence on YouTube. 

4.

“I’m not crying because I’m on my period or anything. I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar.”

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Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton took to the stage when their documentary short Period. End of Sentence. won in 2019. The film follows women in India who make affordable sanitary products in a region where most women previously went without. 

Watch Period. End of Sentence. on Netflix. 

5.

Carol Dysinger tells girls never to give up while accepting an Oscar for her documentary short about girls learning to skateboard in Afghanistan.

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Her win not only highlighted the film Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), but also the plight for women the world over to be taken seriously whether living on the battleground or just trying to be taken seriously as a female filmmaker. 

Buy Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) on Prime Video. 

6.

Mad Max: Fury Road wins six Oscars (five in categories that will no longer be televised).

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Easily the winningest film at the 2015 Oscars, Mad Max: Fury Road built up momentum the whole night and appeared to be headed straight for Best Picture. While it didn’t ultimately win, the crafts received their much deserved moment in the sun. Given the new format the film’s wins for Best Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing would have all taken place off-screen (including editor Margaret Sixel’s “Charlize”). Its only live win would have been in Costume Design. 

Watch Mad Max: Fury Road on HBO Max. 

7.

Naomi Watts and Benedict Cumberbatch explain just how pivotal film editing is before Whiplash takes home the Oscar.

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The win highlighted the indie underdog as it fended off heavy-hitting studio giants for the prize. 

Watch Whiplash on Hulu. 

8.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas won Best Makeup and Hairstyling after a fun montage about special effects makeup.

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Plus the Makeup and Hairstyling winners are often some of the most eccentric dressers of the night.  

Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas on HBO Max. 

9.

Dunkirk wins its three Oscars in Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Film Editing, giving blockbusters a presence on the telecast.

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The crafts categories are frequently the only ones representing films seen by millions. Star Trek, Arrival, American Sniper, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Suicide Squad, Hacksaw Ridge, and Ford v. Ferrari would have all left without podium time if these categories had been cut. 

Watch Dunkirk on Prime Video. 

10.

Jamie Foxx runs in slo-motion to the Chariots of Fire score while presenting Best Score.

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The award goes to Steven Price for his score to Gravity, who charmingly thanks his parents for allowing him to make so much noise playing musical instruments as a child. 

Watch Chariots of Fire on HBO Max. 

11.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win for their immaculate score for The Social Network.

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I’ll take any excuse I can to remind the world how hauntingly beautiful this score is. I’d watch a telecast that is just this score for four hours. 

Watch The Social Network on Netflix. 

12.

Dancers perform to the five Best Score nominees in 2010 in one of the Oscars’ more inventive presentations.

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The nominees with Sherlock Holmes, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and the eventual winner Up

Watch Up on Disney+. 

13.

Hannah Beachler becomes the first Black woman to win a Production Design Oscar and celebrates with a tearful speech.

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These moments of representation that shatter the glass ceiling are so important to young viewers. The wins for Black Panther across the craft categories cued up an inspiring set of wins and speeches in 2019. 

Watch Black Panther on Disney+. 

14.

Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig show the Academy they are great dramatic actors before presenting the Best Production Design Oscar.

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Sometimes the funniest Oscar moments come with presenters nailing their comedy bits in the lead-up to the craft categories. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won this award, but Wiig and Rudolph certainly entertained us along the way. 

Rent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on Prime Video. 

15.

Kobe Bryant won an Oscar that was presented by BB-8 when his short film, Dear Basketball, won.

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The moment holds special resonance now in the wake of Bryant and his daughter’s passing (who he thanks in the speech). 

Watch Dear Basketball on YouTube. 

16.

Domee Shi becomes the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short for Bao.

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Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb were again an important symbol of representation as the all-female pair behind a moving short about motherhood and watching your child grow up. 

Watch Bao on Disney+. 

17.

Hair Love, a film about Black hair, wins Best Animated Short.

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In her acceptance speech, Karen Rupert Toliver says, “We have a firm belief that representation matters deeply, especially in cartoons because that is how we first see our movies, and that is how we shape our lives and think about how we see the world.” Matthew A. Cherry then used his platform as a winner to shout out the CROWN Act, a piece of legislation that would prohibit race-based hair discrimination. 

Watch Hair Love on YouTube. 

18.

All of Walt Disney’s 22 Oscar wins were in Best Short Film categories.

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Legendary filmmakers often appear in the short film categories before they go on to nominations for their feature-length work. It’s a shame to think Walt wouldn’t have ever made the telecast. 

Watch Flowers and Trees on Disney+. 

19.

Travon Free uses his platform as the winner of Best Live Action Short to speak out against police brutality.

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“Please don’t be indifferent to our pain,” Free said during his win for Two Distant Strangers, a short about police brutality that won just last year. In a bit of irony, his co-winner Martin Desmond Roe said, “We’d like to thank the Academy for championing the art of the short film.” 

Watch Two Distant Strangers on Netflix. 

20.

Martin McDonagh wins Best Live Action Short for Six Shooter four years before he’d return as a nominee for In Bruges.

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Amateur filmmakers typically get their start in short films, so eliminating the categories from the telecast is a blow to up-and-coming artists trying to find their voice, an audience, and most importantly, the funding and attention that come with an Oscar win. 

Watch Six Shooter on YouTube. 

21.

“It’s a tie! Oh mon dieu!” — Two films tie for Best Live Action Short in 1995.

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Trevor and Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life tied for the Oscar that year, making it one of only six times that the historic, exciting event has taken place. 

Watch Trevor on YouTube and Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life on YouTube. 

22.

Jacob Tremblay and Abraham Attah present Best Live Action Short because they are short.

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Chris Rock had to bring some crates out so Tremblay could reach the mic in what might be the cutest Oscar moment ever. The award went to Stutterer, which is about a man with a speech impediment. 

Watch Stutterer on YouTube. 

23.

Sound of Metal wins the Oscar for Best Sound, bringing attention to the Deaf community.

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It was one of the most creative uses of sound in a film I can remember, and to see it win such a momentous award not only brought attention to the film, but also the importance of the craft. 

Watch Sound of Metal on Prime Video. 

24.

Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tie for Best Sound Editing in 2013.

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Ted the Teddy Bear was somehow involved in one of the rarest moments in Oscar history, and the shock of the evening. 

Watch Skyfall on Hulu and Zero Dark Thirty on Hulu. 

25.

And lastly, Arrival‘s only Oscar comes in Best Sound Editing.

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JUSTICE FOR ARRIVAL! It deserved so much better, and now the Academy wants to scrub the only category it won in from the telecast? NOT ON MY WATCH. Sending giant inkblot aliens to their houses immediately. 

Watch Arrival on Paramount+. 

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewhuff/oscar-moments-we-would-have-missed-if-they-didnt-air

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