Most memorable Oscars speeches - best picture mix-up, stage falls and industry swipes

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Hollywood tonight (March 28 2022).Hosted by Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer, many of the world's biggest stars of the silver screen will be walking the red carpet as they prepare to find out who has won some of the film industry's most prestigious awards.Throughout the years, the winners have given audiences some of the most memorable awards speeches of all time - from the bizaare, to the heartwarming and to the political.Ahead of the Oscars, Daily Star takes a look at some of the event's most memorable speeches.Every Academy Awards ceremony has categories where the winners are far too close to call, but in 1969 they certainly were.The Best Actress category included huge names of the silver screen in some of their biggest roles, leading to a surprise tie between two famous stars.Both Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Streisand won the Best Actress award, after the judges could not choose between them - and we can certainly see why.Katherine was nominated for her role in The Lion In Winter, while Barbara was nominated for Funny Girl - two of their most famous roles - and both each a deserving winner of the award.While the both won the award, each came up on stage to give their acceptance speeches individually, after being presented with the prize by Ingrid Bergman.Hollywood icon and activist Jane Fonda is one of the many stars to have used her Oscar acceptance speech to raise awareness of an issue or a community globally.After collecting her Best Actress award for the film Coming Home, in which she played a paraplegic Vietnam War veteran, she used her speech to raise awareness of the millions of deaf Americans in the country.She was also one of the first stars to use sign language throughout her speech, saying that.