If there's one thing that the Oscars love, it's a good cock up. Not content with simply doing what they're ostensibly supposed to do, i.e. honour the year's best performers, films, technicians, etc, they instead continually present themselves as stuffy, passe organisation, one that every year seems to dabble in some new farce that in turn leads us to question what the point of the awards even is anymore. Such cock ups, as we'll see, range from the fairly minor - baffling winners, shocking presenters - to the shamefully major, best exemplified by this year's #OscarsSoWhite campaign, which, after building momentum during last year's awards, has looked to finally call bullsh*t on the Oscars' all-encompassing whiteness. That hashtag looks set to bring about some serious change at AMPAS, but no amount of future referendum can ever erase some of Oscar's very worst mistakes, ten of which are presented here as a list of things the Academy really want you to forget.
