Top Ten Oscar Moments (Numbers #10-5)

To kick things off, and to celebrate next Sunday's Oscar ceremonies, we are counting down the Top Ten Oscar Moments of All-Time. And we're off....

10. The 1928 Academy Awards...the very first Oscar ceremony. Best Picture goes to "Wings."

9. Roberto Benigni wins 1998 Best Actor Oscar...Benigni's joy is infectious as he hops over rows
of seats on his way to the stage. His memorable speech, including "I would like to be Jupiter and kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody!" is timeless in its symbolism of Oscar-winning joy.

8. Jack Palance does one-handed push ups during his 1991 Best Supporting Actor acceptance speech.

7. Cuba Gooding, jr. refuses to go quietly into the night during his 1996 Best Supporting Actor win. He thanks everyone from God to his agent. The crowd goes wild.

6. Rob Lowe dances with Snow White at the 1989 ceremonies. One of the most
bizarre moments in Oscar history, and one of the most disgraceful, as Disney's original princess and Lowe jam to "Proud Mary" during the opening number.

5. Crash upsets Brokeback Mountain. The 2005 Best Picture was supposed to go to Brokeback,
at least according to pundits' predictions and the myriad of awards that the groundbreaking film had won going into the big night. But at the end of the night, Jack Nicholson opens the envelope to reveal the biggest upset in Oscar history.

........Stay tuned this week for the Top Four Most Memorable Oscar Moments!