By Monique Ross.
Can you believe it’s been nearly 20 years since Boston besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck picked up their first Oscar?
What if I told you it’s been 16 years since Angelina Jolie creeped out the world by smooching her brother, 14 years since Halle Berry became the first black woman to win best actress, 11 years since an underdog beat Brokeback Mountain for best picture, seven years since Heath Ledger died and nowhere near long enough since Anne Hathaway and James Franco were hosts.
Feeling old yet? Relive the best, the worst and the weirdest Academy Award moments of the past 20 years.
2015: NPH brings musicals back
Host Neil Patrick Harris delivers the best opening number in years, and later strips down to his jocks for a sketch poking fun at nominated film Birdman.
The surreal drama about a former superhero movie star seeking redemption on Broadway, dominates the awards and scores a best director gong for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
If he wins this year for The Revenant he will be the first director since 1950 to win two years in a row.
2014: One selfie to rule them all
This year sees 12 Years A Slave walk away with best picture, a historic moment for black filmmaker Steve McQueen. Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong'o and Jared Leto join the ranks of Oscar winners and Gravity sweeps the technical awards.
McConaughey gives us a memorable moment with his "all right, all right, all right" acceptance speech, and John Travolta botches Idina Menzel's name, instead calling her "Adele Dazeem"... but it is really all about host Ellen DeGeneres' epic A-list selfie.
2013: J-Law trips, Affleck snubbed
Jennifer Lawrence lives out a scenario that must be pretty high on her nightmare list: she trips and falls while walking to the stage to claim the best actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook. The win sees Lawrence, then 22, become the second youngest winner in the category, after Children of a Lesser God's Marlee Matlin, who won at 21 in 1986.
Lawrence makes a graceful recovery after the fall. The same cannot be said for host Seth Macfarlane, whose widely-panned stint as host reaches a low point with the "We Saw Your Boobs" medley, with each line more excruciating than the last.
Other notable moments: Ben Affleck is snubbed in the best director stakes for Argo, but finds redemption when the Iranian hostage drama wins best picture and producers quickly hand over the microphone to give him a moment in the spotlight.
2012: Angelina's right leg
This year the big wins belong to The Artist — the first silent best picture winner since the first ever Oscars ceremony way back in 1929.
It is also the year of the red carpet. Sacha Baron Cohen, in character to promote The Dictator, pours an urn purporting to contain the ashes of Kim Jong-il over Ryan Seacrest. And Angelina Jolie's right leg ends up becoming a meme that just keeps on giving.
2011: Franco and Hathaway tank
There's good Oscars hosts, bad Oscars hosts... and then there's James Franco and Anne Hathaway. In 2011, they re-define what it means to bomb.
Close second for the most memorable moment of the year: Melissa Leo makes Oscars history by blurting out the F-word, which reportedly had never been uttered in the previous 82 years.
2010: Kathryn Bigelow makes history
Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win best director for The Hurt Locker, a low-budget film about the Iraq war which also won best picture and best original screenplay.
The Hurt Locker triumphs the over 3D blockbuster Avatar, directed by Bigelow's former husband, James Cameron.
Bigelow was only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director in the 82-year history of the Oscars. The previous female nominees were Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Jane Campion for The Piano (1993), and Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties (1975).
2009: Heath Ledger wins posthumous honour
The young Australian actor's tragic death in 2008, which was attributed to an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, shook Hollywood and the world.
The Academy honours him with a posthumous best supporting actor Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of the twisted Joker in Dark Knight. Ledger's family accept the award in his name.
"This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here, his peers, within an industry he so loved," his father Kim Ledger says.
Honourable mention: Everything about host Hugh Jackman.
2008: Jon Stewart saves the day
Songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova win the best song Oscar for Falling Slowly, from the movie Once. Hansard gives a wonderful speech, but just as Irglova steps up to the microphone, the wrap-up music kicks in and it cuts to a commercial.
She's missed out on her chance to speak, right? Maybe — if it wasn't for Jon Stewart, who shows he is full of class, bringing her back to make her own acceptance speech.
"The fact that we're able to hold this, it's just to prove no matter how far out your dreams are, it's possible," she says.
Runner up: Watching the after-effects of a writers' strike unfold.
2007: Scorsese finally wins an Oscar
Legendary director Martin Scorsese scored his first Oscar nomination in 1981, and was nominated another four times before finally receiving the gong in 2007.
"Could you double-check the envelope?" the director jokes after being presented the award by his "old friends" Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
1998: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck win best screenplay
Before they were Hollywood superstars, they were just two best friends from Boston who won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting.