The Scandal and the Glory of the 2003 Oscars

There have been a few times throughout Oscar history where no one seemed to know how the show would go on. In 1938 a giant flood in Los Angeles pushed the ceremony back by a week; in 1968 and 1981, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan forced delays. Current events often force the producers to scramble, from the 2018 show’s efforts to address the #MeToo movement to the ban on formal attire at the 1942 Oscars, right at the start of World War II. In 2003 another war was looming—the United States invaded… Read Full Article