The History of Kids Stealing the Show at the Oscars

You don’t have to be a child superstar like Shirley Temple, or a precocious nominee like Abigail Breslin, to be the kid everyone wants to hang out with at the Oscars. One of the most formal and buttoned up of Hollywood events, the Oscars has always had a soft spot for pint-size attendees, who have a gift for puncturing all that self-seriousness with a genuinely emotional acceptance speech or a puppy purse. Ahead, a look back at many decades of Oscar guests who may or may not have had to show up for school the next morning.