The Academy Awards will go down at end of February, likely providing us with a gorgeous collection of red carpet gowns, plenty of PDA-friendly couples, and some truly spectacular moments. It will be the 89th iteration of the annual award show, and although they're sure to be great, we have a feeling it'll be hard to top what Happened at the Oscars 20 years ago. That's right - the red carpet at the 1997 Oscars was, as the kids say, f*cking lit. The dress code included crop-tops, t-shirts, and velvet capes, and couples who seem bizarre to us **w were getting cozy all over the place. 2017's show might have Ryan Gosling, but the one in 1997 had someone legitimately dressed as the Oscar statue. There's ** coming back from that.