Are the acting races all sewn up? And will a foreign film win best picture for the first time ever?

These are the questions we have going into Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards (ABC, 8 p.m. ET/5 PT), where World War I drama “1917” will face off with the Korean-language “Parasite” for best picture, and stars Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) and Renee Zellweger (“Judy”) are expected to take home top acting prizes after sweeping awards season. 

But as we’ve come to learn from Oscars past, it’s always best to expect the unexpected. A dozen of the most surprising wins, blunders and head-scratchers that we still talk about today: 

12. Jennifer Lawrence trips over her dress (2013)

Cementing her status as Hollywood’s most relatable (and clumsiest) star, the then-22-year-old fell as she climbed the steps to accept her best-actress trophy for “Silver Linings Playbook.” 

Cher wearing Bob Mackie in 1988. (Photo: LENNOX McLENDON/AP)

11. Cher turns heads in a see-through dress (1988)

Bjork had her swan dress and golden eggs at the 2001 awards, while Celine Dion wore a backward tuxedo and diamond-studded sunglasses to the show in 1999. But no one has made bolder fashion statements at the Oscars than Cher, who has unforgettably donned feathered headdresses and belly-baring gowns. Her jewel-encrusted naked dress may have been her most daring, which she wore when she won best actress for “Moonstruck.”

10. John Travolta butchers Idina Menzel’s name (2014)

The “Grease” actor launched a thousand memes when he introduced the “Frozen” star’s performance of “Let It Go,” unintelligibly pronouncing her name as “Adele Dazeem.”

9. Chris Rock takes no prisoners in his blistering opening monologue (2016)

The stand-up comedian made for a searing Oscars host amid outrage over the second year of #OscarsSoWhite, taking aim at the lack of diversity in the acting nominees, and stars such as Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith who boycotted the ceremony because of it. “Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” he jabbed. “I wasn’t invited!” 

8. Rob Lowe opens the show with a bizarre duet (1989)

The actor was endlessly lampooned for his participation in this campy opening number, in which he performed a duet of “Proud Mary” with “Snow White”-clad newcomer Eileen Bowman. Stars including Paul Newman and Julie Andrews slammed the disastrous 10-plus-minute number as an “embarrassment” in an open letter, and Disney filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Academy for using its character. 

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