Top Five Oscar Moments:

The red carpet has been rolled up and the fifty thousand pound frocks have retreated back into the walk-in wardrobes. 2009’s Academy Awards were a typically overblown affair, and ultimately Slumdog Millionaire emerged from them as the clear victor.

But in the clear light of day, just what have been the most memorable of all Oscar moments? Here’s a quick list:

1. Roberto Benigni accepts the Oscar for Life is Beautiful [video]

“Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody, the makers of the joy.”

2. Halle Berry wins Best Actress in 2002 - [video]

This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox. And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened. Thank you. I’m so honoured. I’m so honoured. And I thank the Academy for choosing me to be the vessel for which His blessing might flow. Thank you.

3. Marlon Brando’s protest in 1973

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother’s keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

4. Michael Moore’s controversial acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for Bowling for Columbine - [video]

I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they’re here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.

5. Charlie Chaplin receives the longest standing ovation in the award’s history - [video]

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