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22 Feb, 2015

Ratings drop 16%

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TV ratings for the Oscars drop 16%. The broadcast averages 36.6 million viewers, down from 43.7 million the previous year. The Washington Post writes:

It was bound to happen eventually. Neil Patrick Harris, the man who can host anything, finally stumbled. Even stripped to his skivvies in a ‘Birdman’ parody … (Harris) couldn’t deliver quite all the thrills needed to get through the three-hour, 38-minute Oscar folderol without a yawn.

Wins best supporting actor

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Simmons wins the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Whiplash.

Maybe more people saw me tonight than see me in the [insurance] commercials for the first time! This is the cherry on top of this extraordinary experience that Whiplash has been for me.

Wins best picture

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Birdman wins the Oscar for best picture. Inarritu dedicates the award to his fellow Mexicans.

I pray that we can find and build a government that we deserve, and the ones that live in this country, who are a part of the latest generation of immigrants in this country, I just pray that they can be treated with the same dignity and respect as the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

Wins best director

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rs_634x1024-150222205629-634.Alejandro-Gonzalez-Oscar-Show.ms.022215Iñárritu wins the Oscar for best director for Birdman. Iñárritu reveals his good luck charm during his acceptance speech.

Tonight, I am wearing the real Michael Keaton tighty-whities. They are tight, smell like balls, but it worked. I’m here. Thank you, Michael.” LOL!

Win best original screenplay

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Iñárritu, Giacobone, Dinelaris, Jr. and Bo win the Oscar for best original screenplay for Birdman. Iñárritu:

The journey of ‘Birdman’ started three years ago when I asked Nico, Alexander and Armando to follow me in a crazy idea, and because they are crazy we did it and we wrote ‘Birdman’ together, and for that I am all my life grateful and thankful for that and to share this experience with them.

Wins best supporting actress

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Arquette wins the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role as a single mother in Boyhood. Arquette calls for wage equality in her acceptance speech.

To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.

Wins best actress

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Moore wins the Oscar for best actress for her portrayal of an Alzheimer’s sufferer in Still Alice.

I’m so happy, I’m thrilled that we were able to shine a light on Alzheimer’s disease. So many people who have this disease feel marginalized. People who have Alzheimer’s disease deserve to be seen so we can find a cure.

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Redmayne wins the Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

I am fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family [the Hawkings]. […] I will be its custodian. I promise you I will look after him.

2 Mar, 2014

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Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2013 for 12 Years a Slave. Will Smith presents the award. McQueen:

Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live. This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup. I dedicate this award to all the people who have endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer slavery today.

12 Years a Slave Wins Best Picture: 2014 Oscars

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Cuarón wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his space drama Gravity. Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier present the award.

I want to thank “Gravity,” because for many of us involved in this film it was definitely a transformative experience.

Alfonso Cuarón Wins Best Directing: 2014 Oscars

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Blanchett wins the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of a formerly wealthy woman who moves in with her sister, in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. Daniel Day-Lewis presents the award.

And me, I’m here accepting an award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen. Thank you so much, Woody, for casting me. I truly appreciate it. I’m so very proud that “Blue Jasmine” stayed in the cinemas for as long as it did. And thank you to Sony Classics, to Michael and Tom, for their extraordinary support, for so bravely and intelligently distributing the film. And to the audiences who went to see it, and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. So… The world is round, people!

Cate Blanchett winning Best Actress for "Blue Jasmine"

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Jonze oscarJonze wins Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Her.  He beats Eric Singer, Woody Allen, Craig Borten, and Bob Nelson.  He thanks his friends and collaborators.

We made a movie about relationships and intimacy, and that’s what we share together.

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McConaughey oscarMcConaughey wins Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club.  He beats Christian Bale, Bruce Dern, Chiwetel Ejiorfor, and Leonardo DiCaprio.  This is his first Oscar nomination and win.  He thanks God, his wife and children, and his mother and father. He ends with his signature line from Dazed and Confused:

All right, all right, all right.

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leto oscar2Leto wins Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club.  Leto thanks his mother, older brother, the audience, people who have lost the battle to AIDS, and his agents.

In 1971 Bossier city, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child.  She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow, she managed to make a better life for herself and her children.  She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special.  That girl is my mother, and she’s here tonight.  I love you, Mom; thank you for teaching me to dream.

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Lupita oscarNyong’o wins an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave.

I look down at this golden statue, and may it remind me and every little child that no matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.

26 Feb, 2014

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Producer Thomas Langmann wins the Academy Award for Best Picture for the silent film drama The Artist. Langmann is accompanied on stage by the director Michel Hazanavicius and 12 more members of the cast and crew. Tom Cruise presents the award.

I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to you, members of the Academy

16 Jan, 2014

Nominated for Oscar

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McConaughey is nominated for Best Actor at the 86th Academy Awards for portraying Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club.

This is the first time for me to be nominated, to be a part of a film and a performance that’s been making these award rounds and people are shining a light on it. Whether it ever happens again, I don’t know. Even if it does, it’s still my first time.

Oscar Nominations 2014

24 Feb, 2013

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Hathaway wins the Academy Award for Best Performance of an Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Fantine in the film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables. Christopher Plummer presents the award.

Here’s hoping that someday in the not too distant future the misfortunes of “Fantine” will only be found in stories and nevermore in real life.

Anne Hathaway Wins Best Supporting Actress: 85th Oscars (2013)