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5 most unexpected moments in Oscars' history

One year the telecast was actually too short. Another time an actor climbed over rows of chairs between him and his Academy Award. Björk laid eggs on the red carpet. Oscar can go weirdly off script.
<em>La La Land</em> producer Jordan Horowitz holds up the winner card reading actual Best Picture winner <em>Moonlight</em> with actor Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel onstage during the Academy Awards in 2017.

This year's face slap of Chris Rock by Will Smith was just the latest bizarre moment in the history of the Academy Awards.

From Roberto Benigni climbing across the theater's chairs between him and his statuette to Björk laying eggs on the red carpet, Oscar ceremonies often go off script, sometimes spectacularly so.

We look back to five cases of the best-laid plans going awry, in ways

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