Article: Tom Hanks Do's and Don'ts for accepting Oscars!

London, March 3 -- Oscar nominees, who may be in a fix about preparing their acceptance speeches, can now look to Tom Hanks for help. The Academy has brought out an eight-minute instructional video, narrated by Hanks, about the do's and don'ts while accepting an award.

Entitled An Insider's Guide: What Nominees Need To Know, the video includes clips of Oscar moments that stuck in the memory, such as Jack Palance doing one-arm push-ups, or Roberto Benigni gliding over the tops of everyone's chairs en route to the stage or Gwyneth Paltrow's deluge of tears, reports The Independent.

Rule number one, Hanks says, is to manage the triumphal approach to the stage and the speech in no more than 60 ...

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