The Oscars have pulled some big surprises before, sometimes unintentional (insert that La La Landand Moonlight mix-up reference here) and sometimes awesome. The 92nd Academy Awards had one of the most random — but surprisingly most welcome — surprises of all time: an Eminem performance.
Yeah, Marshall Mathers decided to drop some bars at the award ceremony. After Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced a Best Original Song montage, which ended with a prolonged clip of 8-Mile, Eminen appeared from a trap door and did a full on performance of his Academy Award-winning 2003 hit.
According to ABC head of alternative programming Robert Mills, Eminem never performed at during the Oscars ceremony when he won, and this performance rectified that. Turns out, you don’t just get one shot and you can miss your chance to blow — it’ll just take over 15 years to get a second chance at it.
For those wondering, Eminem won for “Lose Yourself” but did not perform or pick up his Oscar from Streisand that year. Now he has rectified that. #Oscars
— Robert Mills (@Millsy11374) February 10, 2020
The unexpected performance injected some great fun into the hostless award show as the energy dropped from Janelle Monae‘s amazing opening. Eminem performed the whole song as every person in the room under the age of 40 mouthed every word (we saw you Kelly Marie Tran and Zazie Beetz, and we relate).
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