10 Best Ways Actors Ever Received Awards
1. Jack Palance Stops His Oscar Acceptance Speech To Do Push-Ups
Jack Palance finally won a damn Oscar in 1992 - a Best Supporting Actor gong for City Slickers, which he received almost 40 years after his first Oscar nomination.
Palance gave a characteristically irreverent acceptance speech, beginning with the immortal one-liner paraphrased from the movie itself, "[Oscar host and co-star] Billy Crystal, I crap bigger than him."
The 73-year-old Palance then talked about producers getting concerned about hiring actors of a certain age, at which point he proved just how spry he actually was, stopping his speech to deliver some one-handed push-ups on the stage.
Palance followed up with some cheeky jokes about "two-handed push-ups" and then exited the stage with his statue, ensuring that perhaps no Oscar speech in history has quite so perfectly reflected the person in question.
The moment became instantly iconic, enough that Crystal kept making tongue-in-cheek references to Palance throughout the rest of the show, commenting that he had done various outlandish things such as bungee-jump off the Hollywood sign, father all the children in a song-and-dance number, and win the New York primary election.