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The Silent Oscar Award: To Hal Roach, who received a special honor in 1991 for bringing Laurel & Hardy and many other classics to the big screen. Billy Crystal introduced him, and the audience gave him a booming ovation. But when everyone sat down, Roach, a centenarian, began speaking, without a mike. The audience and TV viewers just stared for several moments, unable to hear him. Crystal quipped, "I think that's fitting since Mr. Roach started in silent film." It was Roach's last public appearance. He died six months later.

The Give This Guy Viagra Award: To Roberto Benigni, the 1998 double Oscar winner (Best Actor, Best Foreign Film) for Life Is Beautiful. In broken English he proclaimed, "My body is in tumult … I would like to be … lying down and making love to everybody." He later added, "I am-a so happy, I want to wag-a my tail!"

Hey, Are You Guys Against Me? Award: To 1964 presenter Sammy Davis Jr., who was handed an envelope for the wrong award. Representatives from Oscar's counting unit at Price Waterhouse had to rush onstage to stop him from blurting out a mistake. He quipped, "Wait'll the NAACP hears about this."

The You Can See Me Now Award: To Barbra Streisand. She and Katharine Hepburn tied for Best Actress in 1968. In the excitement, she tore her Scaasi bellbottoms on her way to collect the statue. Then, under the spotlight, her outfit appeared distressingly see-through. She raised her Oscar and said to it, "Hello, gorgeous!"

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 Excess Sibling Affection Award: To Angelina Jolie, daughter of Jon Voight, who won a Best Supporting Actress statue last year 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.