30 Most Memorable Oscar Moments From The Last 30 Years

By Jack Pooley / January 30, 2019

25. 11-Year-Old Anna Paquin Wins Best Supporting Actress (1994)

11-year-old Anna Paquin shocked the world - and herself, evidently - when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1994 for her role in Jane Campion's drama The Piano.

This made Paquin the second-youngest person to win a competitive Oscar in Academy Awards history behind Tatum O'Neal, who won the same award in 1974 at the age of 10 for Paper Moon.

Paquin's win was both thoroughly deserved and enormously heart-warming, with her genuinely stunned expression and impressive composure on the Oscar stage sealing the deal.

Above all else it's a reminder that the Academy really needs to give child actors more consideration for Oscars. Why the hell wasn't Elsie Fisher nominated for Eighth Grade this year?