The Oscars Streaker | 46th Oscars (1974) 

Hell yeah brother

you read minds

So true

Yep.

Damn it! You’re right. 😅

It was a complete setup!

Meh, I don't know. I thought Niven was too smug about his response as if he had really landed one. It was average, I think Billy Chrystal or someone like that would have knocked it out of the park.

Took his sweet time with it though

@@Mkundera niven was english with very english manners,you can imagine he was probably in shock give him a break

@@paradise_valley well of coarse he did, he was thinking of what to say, could you come up with something better........i don't think so

There's been a lot of talk that it was staged as a publicity stunt, including Niven's famous line.

Interesting theory! 😄 ​I highly doubt that David Niven was also in on it, though. The striker and anyone who might have helped him committed a (very) public offense and faced a sentence for indecent behavior. It was a minor breach of law but imagine the Academy or any other Hollywood name being officially linked to a case of staged public nudity, live and in front of a billion people?! No high-profile Hollywood name would risk the potential backlash of a puritanical country like the U.S. ^^ And needless to say, a G.O.A.T. like Niven actually was smart, quick-witted and professional enough to respond like that.​ ...If I was a striker, I'd run past the smartest, classiest British actor, too! 😄 @@user-on5mf7fk3b

0:52

Weak, definitely staged

⁠@@Ad.303 lol it wasn’t the naked man was Robert Opel, a New Jersey photographer well know those years and whose only intention for that moment was because he was bored and wanted to get attention.

@@enriquec.5980 if that’s true that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard

I was thinking the same thing Bill. Nothing has changed since 1974. I'm not sure if this is good or bad news.

Oh dear

It has not.

5 years after your comment..and the world has gone mad!...

Well , decades ago i remember somebody quoting a Native American chief who may have lived anywhere from the early 1900s to the early 1970s when he said all this ELECTRICITY is making people go INSANE ...they aren't meant to have all this electricity in their homes and at work and around them all the time ... sometimes i think it's true .

i think there have been others. Like when La la land was announced instead of Moonlight was one, and when Marlon Brando refused to accept the Oscar for the Godfather, and he had an Indian woman go up in his place.

@@violetshamrock THAT One WASN'T STAGED! THE WILL vs.ROCK One WAS and not Only in Baad Taste but EVERYONE Caught on to it, either immediately or through Delayed reaction!!

LMAO

@@JamesBond-ml3zp The slap wasnt staged

@@artfartzy come on you can't be serious

I think the fact that they gave a standing ovation for Will Smith after he smacked down a much smaller man said a lot more about them.

They were cheering and clapping for everything that day. Those were jolly times.

​@@Daniel-sh3osyep a lot of ugly behavior and ugly attitudes that day where people showed who they really are ... it was a grotesque display ... sickening .

@@gardensofthegodsdude ppl clapping for an actor is an automatic response u think that shows they’re all monsters wtf is wrong with u, we’ve all seen crowds clap for anyone who walks in front of them, be it dictators, singers, comedians, actors, anyone with fame. Who the fuck wouldn’t be nervously clapping when someone walks on stage regardless of what they just did

@@gardensofthegodsyeh and the other dude should have crash tackled smith afterwards for that as smith had initiated a duel with the slap.

Agreed

What did they find on Chris Rock’s face after the slap? Fresh Prints ✋

lol!

they've gotten more creative with their publicity stunts

Dear Lord, no.

Weird, surely Ray Stevens The Streak was more appropriate at the time.

I thought that too. Excellent save by the orchestra. That conductor, the players, and Niven were some cool customers that night.

Out of curiosity, why "Fine and Dandy?"

@@gavinreid8937 Yes! It had just been released though, and it was a little inappropriate for the occasion, lol. Great song though 🤣

@@NEPatriot Exactly. Makes no sense.

no one ever upstaged Elizabeth Taylor!!!!

She was also probably thinking, "Is he single?"

@@ericandy88 lol!

@Veronica A. lollll!

She was amazing! I love her so much!!!

The streaker was right

that is if the whole thing wasn't pre-planned. The streaker needed to have special clearance in order to be backstage, and he never revealed how he GOT that clearance. Was he covering up (pun intended) for the producers who may have been in on the whole thing? David might have been fed that line before the show, saying 'If there should be any streaking on the show, say this as a funny follow-up'.

It wasn't ad-libbed. He was tipped off that a streaker might crash the event so he had the day to prepare.

@@Grasslander Seems Mr. Niven and/or the writer never heard of "it's a grower, not a show-er." The scripted reaction was just as tasteless and juvenile as the streaking itself.

Also "That was almost bound to happen...." 😆😄😄

I think it was planned as a bit to be honest, the orchestra were too sharp and rehearsed for it to be that spontaneous.

@@LandersWorkshop they didn't break into Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. They played standard festivity music. Stage ensembles are pretty quick at cueing up mood music.

Regardless of the music name, the fact remains it was staged. Sorry to burst your snowflake bubble. @@75aces97

​@@LandersWorkshopThat was simple band music.

Be that as it may, the whole thing was cringe and planned.@@Vespyr_

Forgotten by whom? He was a legend.

He was a class act on and off the screen.

I don't mean to play Hollywood Squares but I agree. I also remember seeing this incident right when it aired like it happened yesterday. I liked Niven's comeback too. He was defantely more talented then a lot of todays actors.

he's one of the most enduring faces in movie history. would hardly call that forgotten

I remember David Niven on the front of a magazine when he was dying of some horrible disease that had him in a wheelchair looking so emaciated that his bare legs looked like thin bent rubber . So sad .

@worldd777 lol, doubt he lives that long!

@AsSeenOnTV Ageism is pathetic. You have my complete and utter contempt. You are like dogshit on a shoe.

@AsSeenOnTV Better than a dumb fuck

ok boomer

So did I , I was ten and our parents hardly ever let us watch much tv.. that’s how it was back then , people didn’t thing sitting in front of a tv all day was healthy.

Yup but I actually saw this on TV in the 70's I just forgot all about it. I remember my parents screaming and laughing at the TV.

yepp! Had to go back in time. Pretty brave but then again we had streakers back then a lot more than today...

You bet. Hadn't heard of this before and I've been a Niven fan since I was a kid. Streaker picked just the right man.

Me

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but streaking was a fad in 1974 and the Oscars organisers had actually prepared this line for the presenters just in case. As we all know, it did, and it fell to David Niven, with his withering timing, to deliver the perfect squelch.

@Sharon Jensen This whole moment was completely staged. Niven had his ad-lib already prepared. He knew this was going to happen.

Heard it had been planned including his comments.

Im sure David found it funny but his retort at 1;55 looks a little miffed.

I guess a continental wouldn't even have been thrown off. But his snapback was quintessentially british

Jim Michaud WAIT WHAT

Murdered by armed robbers.

Robert Opel he was a gay rights activist and photographer, it's tragic what happened to him.

:'(

:(

Thanks to Niven, this didn't seem awkward in the slightest. Last night's however was awkward AF.

Kevin Losas smmskk

What happened in 2017?

​@@MetalizedButt "And the Oscar for Best Picture (almost) went to La La Land."

@@MetalizedButt The presenter for Best Picture was given the wrong card, it said La La Land on it when the real winner was Moonlight.

I think the Best Picture announcement of 2016/2017 just beat it.

Yeh, that one instantly became number one. The picture of the stunned audience should be in movie history books. :)

Well not now..Will, Chris, the Slap..2022 Oscars...

@@sandrasanders706 yes.. You are right. And that one has become the most dishonorable moment of the awards. Will Smith's sudden change of mood is NOT ok, either. His award must be taken back.

😐

Me too ,,, since I was 11..

Ho Ho ho

calm down grandpa

Jajajajajajaja that was great

True English

"That's why they call him the Streak!"

Yes, you are right. The Oscars now are pure trash. Will Smith is a complete embarrassment!

He was the home invader?

@@jeshkam No, someone was trying to rob the streaker dude and he refused to comply so the robbers shot him. According to what I read

@@Pigeuns Poor dude. RIP.

It's called timing.

nala Lolll

You are right! How did you catch that? Thank you (:

She's right in the front at 2:42 and her laugh is so distinctive it's hard to miss lol!

nala i love how he sees her and laughs and everybody laughs too lmao queen

Now I know where Family Guy got the Seagull at an Adam Sandler movie.

eu vi o oscar 2024

Hey Will, how about keep other men out of your wife.

I searched this lol

That’s accurate Johnathan, she was a true beauty with those blazing blue eyes and she was so awesome she got more than one guy to marry her before they consummated the relationship.

The 50 year rendition

I read them, a looong time ago when I was a teenager. Maybe it's time for a re-read. :)

Aquilo foi constrangedor, a Margot Robbie nao parava de rir

Really? Who was he?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Opel

So sad 😞

in ' 79

Was about to say that, you only beat me by 2 years 🤣

John's Wacky World News you got one tonight

YES, IT WAS SURE A COMICAL PLAY

We got one 3 days ago at this year’s Oscars with John Cena