Giving a speech is hard. It’s something people really hate. Even actors, who talk for a living, are sometimes very bad at it. Even the ones who win Oscars can be bad at it. Here are some of the least notable acceptance speeches in Oscar history.

1. Nicolas Cage—Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas (1996)

Cage dropped the whole "Nicolas Cage" persona for one movie, crushed it, and won ;an Oscar. But in his acceptance speech, he proved he was still good ol’ weirdo Nicolas Cage.

2. Gwyneth Paltrow—Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love (1999)

Gwyneth really can’t win. Widely accused of being cold and disingenuous, the one time she showed emotion, it rang false and came off weird. She was so emotional, it made people uncomfortable. (She won for a comedy, come on.)

3. Roberto Benigni—Best Actor for Life is Beautiful (1999)

Look at the wacky clown, walking on all of the seats. He gave a silly speech in broken English. Oh, and don't forget he won for a Holocaust movie.

4. Ben Affleck—Best Picture for Argo (2012)

“Marriage is work,” Ben Affleck inexplicably and awkwardly said to his wife, Jennifer Garner, on this, the night acknowledging his artistic achievement. Hey Ben, you’re supposed to thank your wife for her support, not imply that you’ve started marriage counseling.

5. Hilary Swank—Best Actress for Boys Don’t Cry (2000)

Swank managed to top Affleck's spouse-offending moment by forgetting to mention her husband at all.

6. Angelina Jolie—Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted (2000)

She’s the queen of both Hollywood and the humanitarian circuit now, but don’t you kind of miss wacky Angelina Jolie? Back before she was married to her male-equivalent movie star husband, and was in love with her brother?

7. James Cameron—Best Director for Titanic (1998)

Cameron came across as so arrogant and entitled that his “king of the world” remark was interpreted as a boast, instead of a quote from his movie. Also, it's the most famous quote from the movie he had just won for, which was the most popular movie of all time.

8. Melissa Leo—Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter (2011)

In which Melissa Leo does her best impression of a circa-1980 Jack Nicholson.

9. Joe Pesci—Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas (1991)

This is, what, like six words? Lame.

The Oscars are on Sunday night, and in honor of the awards show, Jimmy Kimmel put out a special "movie edition" of his popular segment Celebrities Read Mean Tweets. This one features, among others: Emily Blunt, Kevin Hart, George Clooney, Seth Rogen, Susan Sarandon, Taraji P. Henson, and Jessica Chastain, a.k.a. "Julia Roberts' ghost."

Today, just when America seems more fractured than ever and a terrifying election looms large, it is fascinating to reminisce on the things that once divided the nation. A year ago today, on February 26, 2015, a nation came to its heels as the paradigm of objective reality was shattered.

Yes, it is the first anniversary of #TheDress, an optical illusion that ended up commenting on more than just color, but about community.

Everyone had something to say, and it gave people something benign to discuss in elevators other than the elevator. Were your coworkers team Blue and Black or White and Gold? How about your pharmacist? Oh, how wonderful it was to have a trending topic that wasn't political turmoil, death, or Kardashians.

What began as a viral phenomenon became subject of serious scientific inquiry.

Celebrities shared their opinions, as they so often do.

And memes about the meme.

Oh, what a simpler time!

But seriously, be sure to ask the presidential candidates if they see Blue and Black or White and Gold at the next town hall.

Where do you stand on #TheDress?

Hilarious Aussie actor Rebel Wilson was rightfully upset when a journalist allegedly attacked her grandma.

As she once showed Conan, she and her grandma are really close.

She tweeted that a reporter named Elizabeth Wilson verbally abused an elderly woman, which is awful, or as the Aussies say, "festy."

In retaliation, Wilson posted a picture of who she thought was Elizabeth Wilson, but, um, it turned out it wasn't.​

Apparently the woman—who isn't Elizabeth Wilson: Verbal Abuser—is really nice.

She ultimately took down the pic, but shot back at people who said she was going to get sued.

She used this mistake as an opportunity to tweet that while the "feck up" might be an invasion of privacy, it pales in comparison to what all the tabloid "journalists" have been doing to her over the years.

Wilson apologized for rage tweeting, but hopes you understand where she's coming from.

It's what any good granddaughter would do. 

Author's Note: An initial version of this article said that Aussies use the phrase "fecking bullshit." A helpful reader pointed out that it "festy" is actually an Irish term. I regret this error.

Kelly Clarkson returned to American Idol last night and performed her song "Piece by Piece." It was an emotional performance for Clarkson, who won the first season (this is the show's final season). She brought J. Lo and Keith Urban to tears with her performance.

She also brought herself to tears, which she blamed on pregnancy. But the raw emotional grit of this number was plenty of ammo to make anyone cry. Even Ryan Seacrest warned everyone that it would get emotional:

There's a reason that she won the first American Idol, and it's the same reason she can come back and bring down the house. It's nice to see people cry for a good reason on the show after years of contestants wailing backstage.

On February 24, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson sat down with feminist icon Gloria Steinem in a talk sponsored by How to Academy, which hosts educational events on a variety of subjects. Aside from discussing topics like how women can affect peace negotiations, Watson let it drop that she has subscribed to the "sexual pleasure research site" OMGYES.com, International Business Times reported.

"A friend told me about this website called OMGYES, which is dedicated to female sexuality," Metro quoted Watson as saying. "I wish it had been around longer. Definitely check it out," she told Steinem. "It's an expensive subscription but it's worth it." The site, which costs about $56 to join, uses a mix of documentary interviews and touch simulations to help users learn how to bring women to climax.  

In a more PG portion of the interview, Watson referenced her likeness to the character that made her famous. "I feel as though I spent a long time trying to pretend I was not like Hermione, and, of course, I was rather like Hermione," she said, laughing. "I’ve finally come to accept the fact."

Skip to :56 to hear Watson talk about her famous eyebrows and her connection with Hermione:

For a bit a conversation that goes a bit deeper, watch Steinem talk about the "bullshit" idea of masculine and feminine.

In early January, Watson chose Steinem's book, My Life on the Road as part of her feminist book club that anybody can join because books are for everyone.

Watson's best ever accessory is a book.

Telling identical twin babies apart can be extremely difficult, but even more extreme is this father's solution to telling one baby from the other. He wants to get one of his boys tatted up, and it's for a good reason.

Desperate dad Redditor Thrwydad took to the front page of the Internet to discuss the heart-wrenching reason why he would go so far as to tattoo one of his children. One of his 12-month-old twin boys has a serious health condition and needs to take medication every four hours. Determining who's who is vital, and Thrwydad must always find the correct son to give the medication.

Thrwydad and his wife have been using a permanent marker to distinguish the twins, Adam and Aaron. They stopped after one horrifying moment when the boys' grandma gave the medication to the wrong child. The mark on Aaron's body disappeared when she gave them a bath. Adam was immediately hospitalized, and Aaron had also gotten sick from not having received his medication. 

“This is a serious extreme situation and I don’t want to take this risk again,” the dad wrote on the Reddit thread. “We have had other mix-ups with the boys but it has never wound up this bad.”

The couple has tried just about everything to tell the twins apart: nail-polish, bracelets, clothes with different colors, and even completely shaving one of the boys' head. These attempts all failed for dad, who said they are only temporary solutions. He pleaded with Reddit users to suggest a more permanent fix. He wrote: “I read online about someone tattooing a single dot on one of their twins and also about piercing ears. I really hate to say it but we are here."

“I need to do something permanent. I could have lost both my sons last weekend and I’m desperate. I am only after permanent solutions. Believe me when I say we have tried everything else before and it didn’t work. Please help me. I don’t want to lose my boy.”

Reddit users were split over whether a tattoo or piercing would be the better route for the dad. One commenter thought it was a no-brainer to get a tattoo.

Most of the up-voted comments on the thread stated they would choose a tiny dot tattoo over a piercing, which could cause an infection or might get pulled out.

Which would you choose?

If Donald Trump is going to Tweet things like this, he might as well use proper spelling. Or not, it probably doesn't matter to his supporters one way or another. After getting into it with GOP heartthrob Marco Rubio at last night's debate, Trump took to Twitter to celebrate his stance in the polls and insult someone, like he does every night before bed.

Jezebel's Anna Merlan highlights a couple of the candidate's (since deleted) lazily-proofread Tweets.

Perhaps this is just Trump's way of pandering to the poorly educated voters he so loves? Or maybe some Simpsons jokes hit too close to reality.

Kids grow up so fast these days that it's no surprise BuzzFeed could wrangle a group of them to divulge how they feel about their crushes. Still, it's a little freaky how knowledgeable these kids are. They're dropping terms like "wingman" and already going for the grand gestures. In 15 years, when the game is real, these girls and boys will be fielding matches all day on Tinder—which at that point will be a virtual reality app embedded in their brains.

Their reasons for liking their crushes are about as valid as it gets.

Their crushes stand out from the crowd.

Despite all their know-how, these kids aren't all successes.

The childhood version of ghosting.

Busy week! Donald Trump won two big primaries, putting the famously shy and reclusive billionaire in the spotlight. In other news, Jeb Bush said goodbye after failing to get a rose, Kesha's legal struggles drew sympathy and outrage, and President Obama hinted at nominating a Republican governor to the Supreme Court. Enjoy tweets on all these topics, plus jokes about Q-Tip addiction, alien abduction, Facebook drama and more, in the top 39 tweets of the week!

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Chris Rock wrote a very cryptic tweet about hosting the Oscars this Sunday. Rock's tweet includes the hashtag "blackout," and then a video that may remind some movie and TV buffs of The Sopranos, Cloverfield, or Poltergeist:

Since there's been increasing curiosity on how Rock will address the issue of #OscarsSoWhite this year, perhaps it has something to do with that backlash—which has led to several prominent actors boycotting the ceremony. The Academy itself has responded directly to the controversy, announcing plans to increase diversity in its membership.

It sounds like Chris Rock will certainly have a very interesting monolgue this year. Come Sunday, the world will know what #blackout means for the show.

The Oscars are the Super Bowl of award shows. Just like in actual sports, there are winners, losers, and the definite chance of an upset. Over the years there have been some serious blunders in deciding who goes home with the gold, yet somehow these incredibly rich and famous people were able to pick up the pieces and move on with their shattered Oscar-less lives.

1. Crash winning Best Picture in 2006.

Crash is an ok movie, and some would say an even better Dave Mathews Band song. Everyone was shocked 10 years ago, when the film beat out Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture. The upset left many film buffs saying, "Oscar, I wish I knew how to quit you."

2. The wordless Red Balloon winning Best Screenplay.

Despite having virtually no dialogue and only being a half hour long, The Red Balloon won Best Screenplay in 1957. That's even more shady than Matt and Ben supposedly writing the screenplay for Goodwill Hunting by themselves.

3. Leonardo DiCaprio never winning an Oscar.

It's kind of a joke at this point, but Leonardo DiCaprio getting snubbed by the Oscars is a real problem. This year is the actor's sixth nomination, and many are hoping it will finally be his turn. It seems like this poor guy can't win anything except models' hearts. If he gets snubbed again on Sunday you can expect a real life replay of these signature freak-outs:

4. Kevin Costner winning Best Director.

Hard to believe The Cos beat out Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola for best director in 1991. Even harder to believe that Dances with Wolves won Best Picture over Goodfellas. Even hardest to believe is that Kevin Costner wore a diaper on set and made everyone call him "Widdle Kevy Baby" throughout the entire filming. (That last one might be made up.)

5. Judy Garland never winning Best Actress.

In 1940, the Academy did not nominate 17-year-old Judy Garland for Best Actress for her iconic role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Later, in 1954, Garland was nominated for her role in A Star is Born, but she lost out to Grace Kelly. Many refer to that loss as the greatest upset in Oscar history. Garland was nominated for an Oscar again in 1962, and again was denied. Maybe she should've dropped a house on their asses.

6. Al Pacino winning an Oscar for Scent of a Woman in'93.

By 1993, Al Pacino had been nominated for seven Oscars without a win. The Academy wasn't too impressed with his work in the Godfather movies or Serpico, but yelling out, "WHOO-AH" a bunch of times, in the stinker Scent of a Woman did the trick, apparently. Most people agreed Denzel Washington should've won for Malcolm X that year.

7. Alfred Hitchcock never winning an Oscar.

Despite being nominated 5 times for Best Director, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock never won an Academy Award. But you know who has? Three 6 Mafia.

8. Citizen Kane losing to How Green Was My Valley in 1941.

Since it's known as the best movie of all time, it may surprise you to learn that Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. How can that be true? This is the movie to pretend to like to seem smart. It's the movie people compare all other great movies to. You know, like when someone says, "Teen Wolf Too is the Citizen Kane of movie sequels about an 80s teenage werewolf."

9. Forrest Gump winning Best Picture in 1994.

Some people are still mad that Forrest Gump beat out Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture back in '94. It's like Mama used to say: the Oscars are like a box of chocolates, Tom Hanks licks them all so no one else can have any.

Only one of these movies has its own theme restaurant, so until there's an Andy Dufresne Sewer Pipe Cafe, maybe STFU.

10. The Dark Knight not being nominated for Best Picture.

The Dark Knight wasn't even in the running for Best Picture in 2009, although the late Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The snub was very disappointing to Batman fans. Even more upsetting than when Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't win for "Best Actor Who Only Speaks in Puns" for his role as Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin. That was cold.

So what do you think was the biggest blunder in Oscar History?

Celebrity chef and Michelin-rated restaurateur Gordon Ramsay gained widespread fame by yelling at contestants on his show Hell's Kitchen, so it's slightly surprising that much of his Twitter feed consists of him kindly responding to tweets.

But it's not that encouraging variety of Q&A that had people noticing Ramsay's Twitter earlier in the week.

In response to a question asking, "are you allergic to anything," Ramsay answered by grabbing at the low-hanging fruit that is making a mockery of vegans.

Hey Gordon, do you have any allergies?

The reactions to Ramsay's tweets were mixed.

Ramsay​ quickly took back his insult, by throwing it at vegetarians instead.

Very few people liked this second tweet better.

Gordon Ramsay probably hates other people who aren't vegans or vegetarians, if that makes anything better. Also, he was joking.

Despite disappointing reviews (one headline: "Fuller House is like a porn parody without the porn"), Fuller Houseis finally here on Netflix, as of today. The reboot of Full House has, luckily, kept the best part of the 80s cheesefest: its so-bad-it's-good theme song, "Everywhere You Look." This time, it's sung by cheerful Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, who makes it as catchy as "Call Me Maybe."

Also, this video will make you realize that the San Francisco presented by Full House is functionally and culturally Canada.

Ellen DeGeneres gave a rundown of the Best Picture nominees in her monologue on Friday to get you ready for the Oscars. Yes, the Oscars are this Sunday, a celebration of white millionaires to cap off Black History Month. Ellen even sneaks in a promo of Finding Dory to get a head start on next year's Best Picture race, and has a peek at the inevitable Martian sequel. This time, Matt Damon's stuck on Uranus.

It wouldn't be a fully-realized Uranus joke unless Kim Kardashian West made an appearance. 

Infertility is fairly common. It affects around 15% of couples, with a third of the cases tracing back to the male.​ Now China, a country that for many decades had a strict limit on human reproduction, may be entering the business of artificial sperm. Chinese scientists have successfully engineered healthy mouse offspring by injecting their laboratory-made sperm cells into eggs, alleging that this could be a groundbreaking treatment for male infertility.

The Daily Mirrorreports that the scientists first exposed stem cells from a mouse embryo to a concoction of various chemicals, which became primordial germ cells. They then triggered the germ cells to imitate the testes' environment by exposing them to testicular cells and testosterone. The resultant spermatids (sperms without tails or swimming skills) were found to develop normally when injected into mouse eggs.

What does all of this mean? For one, infertile couples can remain hopeful that scientists are working to end their struggle.

It also means men may be completely obsolete from the reproductive process and therefore cast out from a matriarchal, single-parent society as useless testosterone bags.

Just imagine a world of fatherless children playing catch with their moms, or a tree. Mothers would be crushed under the weight of all their children who have no fathers to help give piggyback rides. Sons would never go on father-son fishing trips and starve to death all alone in a canoe, clutching a Wal-Mart fishing rod they bought because no grandfather existed to pass one down to them.

Is this a world you want to live in?

On Tuesday, a 16-year-old driver plowed her car into Kim Cattrall's house on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Cattrall was, of course, rattled by the incident, but thankfully no one in her home or in the car was seriously injured. Cattrall tweeted pictures of the car smashed into the front of her home:

She confirmed to concerned fans that she is in fact OK, just upset about the incident:

Though reports that the driver was drunk have not been confirmed, Cattrall also reached out to Mothers Against Drunk Driving on Twitter:

She also capped off all the serious tweets by being thankful for her cat:

Hopefully Cattrall can get back to a sense of normalcy in her home. Maybe in addition to hanging with the kitty, she and her husband can do some improvised jazz scat: