Oscars 2019: 16 WTF Moments

3. "I Can't Believe A Film About Menstruation Just Won An Oscar"

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The Best Documentary Short Oscar went to the Netflix-distributed film Period. End of Sentence., which examined the stigma surrounding menstruation in India and a group of women who begin manufacturing their own sanitary products.

Director Rayka Zehtabchi took to the stage to accept the award, and the first two sentences out of her mouth damn-near stole the entire night. "I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything. I can't believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar."

Olivia Colman's acceptance speech was almost impossibly adorable, but this? This was hysterical.

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