What’s the Academy without a bit of boggle? A lowdown on the controversies to have wracked Oscar history
Hype 
and hope – two elements inseparable from the Oscars. The former, of the scale and madness that would drag controversy in complicity, in this case, of citing cocksure command over celluloid craft . The latter, Bob Hope – that one-liner- one-second emcee who ensured losers had something to laugh about too each of the 18 times he hosted the Awards!
Every year, the night that has America glued to their television screens for obvious reasons, and whatever part of the day – depending on respective time zones – the world does the same too for some inexplicable reason, the curtains draw on the biggest spectacle of stars under the canopy of cinema. And in such annual avalanche of attention, there is invariably registered one or the other circumstance of controversy that has had the audiences sitting on their hands to biting their tongues. Be it a far from flattering acknowledgement of Elia Kazan (the man James Dean could’ve dedicated his acceptance speeches, were he to have converted his posthumous nominations ) , with half the audience choosing to play possum, as he received his Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 for having ratted on his coevals from the Hollywood coterie at the height of the Red Scare, or the streaker who dashed across in the 1973, flashing a V-sign, or a whole lot of other ‘coloured’ streaks in its checkered history, the Oscars have known its controversial moments just as well as every nominee does the names he or she has to thank on stage. For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007 An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
