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The More Outrageously Dressed Than Cher Award: To costume designer Lizzy Gardiner, who wore a gown crafted out of some 200 American Express gold cards (in her name). Perhaps it was a commentary on her film, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Remarking on the film's $12,000 costume budget, she said backstage, "We absolutely didn't think we would win."

The Excessive Sibling Affection Award: To Angelina Jolie, who won a Best Supporting Actress statue in 2000 for Girl Interrupted. When her name was announced she gave her brother a fulsome smooch with her bee-stung lips. She told the crowd: "I'm in shock. And I'm so in love with my brother right now, he just held me and said he loved me." She later married actor Billy Bob Thornton.

The Inverted Oscar: To Ronald Reagan. In 1947, he narrated a silent montage of past Oscar winners. Much to Reagan's surprise, the crowd was laughing hysterically as he said, "This picture embodies the glories of our past, the memories of our present and the inspiration of our future." What he didn't know: The reel was upside down.

The Oscar Mayer Weiner Award: To Jack Palance, for dropping to the stage floor and doing one-armed pushups to celebrate his Best Supporting Actor award for City Slickers.

The Oscar Imposter Award: To Marlon Brando, who sent "Sasheen Littlefeather" to the stage to reject his Best Actor award in 1973 for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood's treatment of American Indians. Later, it was discovered that her real name was Maria Cruz, that she wasn't an Apache, and that in 1970 she had won the Miss American Vampire contest.

The Oscar Instigator Award: To Vanessa Redgrave in 1978, for using her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for Julia as a diatribe against "Zionist hoodlums." Dozens of police officers had to quell a protest outside the theater. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, who followed her onstage, quipped, "A simple 'thank you' would have been sufficient."

The Must-Have-Been-Bottle-Fed Award: To director Bernardo Bertolucci. Accepting an award for The Last Emperor in 1987, he referred to Hollywood as the "Big Nipple." The Big Sister With a Big Mouth Award: To Shirley MacLaine, who presented an award to her brother Warren Beatty for Reds in 1981, saying: "I want to take this opportunity to say how proud I am of my little brother, my dear, sweet, talented brother. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you tried celibacy." Beatty and his then-girlfriend, Diane Keaton, were not amused.