Robert Benigni's seat climbing (1999): Ever the clown, the Italian actor and director couldn't just walk up on stage and give humble, teary-eyed thanks when his “Life Is Beautiful” won the Oscar for best foreign-language film. Instead, he leaped from one seat back to another, whipping the audience into a frenzy, before hopping up the steps and giving presenter Sophia Loren a long bear hug. __