Is Sacha Baron Cohen BANNED From The Oscars?

Camels on the red carpet?

In 2007 He Arrived In A Cart Pulled By Peasant Women

The Academy Awards is terrified of Sacha Baron Cohen. After learning that the comedian was planning to show up to this year's ceremony in costume and character as 'The Dictator,' Oscar officials are now reportedly telling him that he can't come unless he plays nicely.

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To be clear, says the Academy, Baron Cohen is NOT banned from the Oscars. But he might not be welcome on the red carpet if he shows up as his latest character.

Following a report from Deadline.com yesterday that the actor had been barred from attending this year's festivities in Hollywood, an Oscar representative said that was not true. Sort of.

"We would love to have Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscar show," the spokesperson said. BUT, "We have expressed [to Cohen] that we don't like our red carpet to be used as a promotional stunt. We're waiting to hear from him. We've put the ball in his court."

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If Baron Cohen has proven anything over his career, it's that he tends to do whatever is the most inappropriate. For a guy who once showed up to a formal Southern dinner party and showed the hostess a plastic baggie with his poop inside, being a goof on the red carpet wouldn't exactly be surprising.

Which is why Oscar officials have reason to worry. For the 2006 Toronto Film Festival, Baron Cohen (in character as Borat, a socially-inept journalist from Kazakhstan) arrived in a cart pulled by peasant women.

The Dictator, Baron Cohen's latest cultural calamity, is a parody of an anti-democratic despot along the lines of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

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