Top 9 - Bjork in/as/with a swan

It was the gasp heard around the world.

Bjork showed up for the 73rd annual Academy Awards (2001), where she was meant to perform, wearing a swan.

We could write a diatribe on a shallow world that would bother itself with something as small as an ugly dress...but this was some serious ugly. The depth of which validates any criticism it incites.

Designed by Marjan Pejoski, the ensemble was made to look like an entire swan hung on its wearer, chicken-rice-shop-window style.

It was memorable though, and prevented the Icelandic singer from going the way of Enya and Yanni, to the back of our minds.

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Top 8 - Sally Field, we like her we really like her!

Sally Field accepting the second Oscar of her career at the 57th annual Academy Awards (1985). She won for her leading role in "Places of the Heart".

Field is often misquoted as saying, "You like me, you really like me!" Comedians often use that line in Oscar spoofs to take the mick out of actors (love-starved in childhood) who vie after accolades and awards.

She actually ended her acceptance speech as follows:
"I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"

In a trying industry where few ever break the mould, it was nice to see Field come into her own. It was the moment when Tinseltown stopped laughing at the "unorthodox" and brilliant actress.

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Top 7 - The Oscars get Pimping

The Academy Awards are by far the stiffest ceremony of the award season. Yet somehow we knew that one day hip hop would rule even that roost.

At the 78th annual Academy Awards (2006), Three 6 Mafia -- a hip hop group too hardcore for the Grammys -- played the Oscar stage. The group later caused a coup, winning Best Original Song for "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp", from the film "Hustle & Flow"

We think they deserved it and if nothing else it was worth seeing the look of shock on all those emaciated faces.

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