Oscars 2013: Remembering The Most Famous Infamous Speeches Ever

3. Tom Hanks - Best Actor (Philadelphia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuDMEpUc8k Some people are superstitious when it comes to writing their acceptance speeches for the Oscars. Some have stated that if they write a speech they have jinxed themselves from winning and some have the exact words they want to say ready to be capsulized in their moment of glory. Admittedly, the Oscar speeches that are more than obviously prepared are some of the most iconic moments in the show's 85 year history. Tom Hanks' 1994 acceptance speech for Best Actor for his work in the drama Philadelphia is the crowning achievement of such a moment. In words that even a President would be jealous of Hanks, who played a gay man dying from AIDS in the film, eloquently speaks about love, his plea for acceptance of the AIDS epidemic and the inspirational impact 2 gay men have had on his life. Hanks gives one of the most emotionally captivating and memorable speeches in Oscar history, so much that you probably could have heard a pin drop in the Dorthy Chandler Pavilion. Hanks' speech was so profound that the comedy In & Out was loosely based on his now classic moment when he thanked his gay high school drama teacher.