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Elinor Burkett’s Kanye moment at the 2010 Oscars

Mar 08, 2010 – permalink

The 82nd Academy Awards seemed to have multiple opportunities for stories the day after.

Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win Best Director.

The Hurt Locker not only beat the box office champ Avatar but it also won a bunch of the technical awards you thought would be shoo-ins for the sci-fi epic.

Were two hosts — Baldwin and Martin — better than one?

Who did they forget in the In Memoriam tribute?

So it was quite a surprise that the biggest shock of the night occurred when director Roger Ross Williams went up to accept the Oscar for the Documentary Short Subject winner Music By Prudence. As he made his speech, Elinor Burkett ran up on the stage and pushed her way to the mic saying “…Let the woman talk. Isn’t that the classic thing?”

Burkett, the film’s producer, made her speech while Williams stood there dumbfounded. Williams says that Burkett is the film’s producer “in name only” and that the pair have had legal wranglings over disagreements in the film’s direction. They obviously don’t like each other, so the moment on stage defined “awkward.”

Who would of thought that the Documentary Short would be the thing we’d be talking about the day after? What did you think of the incident? The show? The winners?