Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn both won the Best Actress Oscar in 1968 for their performances in The Lion In Winter and Funny Girl. This was the first and only time that the Academy announced a tie in the Best Actress category, and Streisand famously greeted her gong with the words: “Hello gorgeous.”

And the Award for Most Excitable Winner goes too… Cuba Gooding Junior. In 1996, the Jerry Maguire actor jumped on stage to collect his Best Supporting Actor Award and launched into an exuberant speech, which was only cut short when he couldn’t be heard above the orchestra.

The late Christopher Reeves received two standing ovations when he appeared at the 1996 Oscars ceremony. The Superman actor had been paralysed from the waist down after a riding accident the previous year.

Lots of actors get emotional when they win an Oscar but few can compete with Gwyneth Paltrow’s spectacular performance when she scooped Best Actress in 1999. The star has since spoken of her embarrassment over the weepy episode: “I keep it [her Oscar] tucked away at the back of the bookshelf in my bedroom because it weirds me out.”

In 2001, Julia Roberts won a Best Actress Oscar for Erin Brockovich. When the actress realised that she had passed her 45-second speech limit, she shouted: “A girl’s got to have her moment. Everybody tries to get me to shut up. It didn’t work with my parents and it didn’t work now.” She thanked everyone, except Erin Brockovich on which her character was based.

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