HOT-BUTTON MOMENTS

10 CELEBRITIES WHO MIXED AWARD SHOWS AND POLITICS

1 Meryl Streep castigates Donald Trump when accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards.

2 Filmmaker Michael Moore calls President George W. Bush “a fictitious president for fictitious times” after winning the Oscar for “Bowling for Columbine” in 2003.

3 Leonardo DiCaprio advocates for American Indians during his acceptance of the Best Actor in a Drama Award for “The Revenant” at the 2016 Golden Globes.

4 Marlon Brando refuses to attend the 1973 Academy Awards in protest of the poor treatment of American Indians by the film industry.

5 Richard Gere is banished from attending the Oscars in 1993 after using his role as a presenter to announce he hoped Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was watching so he could discuss human rights violations in Tibet. He didn’t return to the Academy Awards until 2003.

6 Sally Field gives an anti-war speech at the Emmy Awards in 2007 while accepting her award for “Brothers and Sisters.”

7 After winning the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2007 for “An Inconvenient Truth,” former vice president Al Gore speaks out on the need to “solve the climate crisis.”

8 Sean Penn criticizes anti-gay protesters outside the 2009 Academy Awards ceremony when he won Best Actor for his portrayal of Harvey Milk.

9 Screenwriter John Irving thanks the Academy for honoring a film that tackled abortion when he accepted his 2000 Academy Award for “The Cider House Rules.”

10 Sarah Paulson encourages viewers to donate to the ACLU when accepting a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries for “The People v. O.J. Simpson.”