10 Most Cringe-Worthy Oscar Moments

2. Vanessa Redgrave's Political Acceptance Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAcOsK9gRLk Political speeches rarely go down well at the Oscars - even Michael Moore's speech for his Bowling for Columbine Oscar win, pandering perfectly to Hollywood's primarily left-wing persuasion, garnered boos from the crowd - and Vanessa Redgrave managed to perfectly out-Brando Brando by radically politicising her 1978 acceptance speech for her Best Supporting Actress win for Julia. That year, Redgrave also produced a pro-Palestine documentary called The Palestinian, causing protesters to picket her appearance at the Oscars. Completely out of nowhere, Redgrave accepts her Oscar and then goes off on a tangent, remarking to the crowd "in the last few weeks you€™ve stood firm, and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression". Redgrave was loudly booed for the declaration, and her most vocal detractor was Network screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, who said what all of us were thinking when he declared, "A simple 'Thank you' would have sufficed".