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Boyle wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his drama Slumdog Millionaire. Reese Witherspoon presents the award.
Finally, just to say to Mumbai: Unending, inseparable, unborn. All of you who helped us make the film and all of those of you who didn’t, thank you so much. You dwarf even this guy [gesturing to the statuette]. Thank you very much indeed.
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Cruz wins Best Supporting Actress at the 81st Academy Awards for portraying Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
We are all mixed together and that has to be reflected in cinema. I’m happy that finally that door seems to be more open and not just to me and three other people, but to a much bigger group.
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Winslet wins Best Actress at the 81st Academy Awards for portraying Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.
That’s a career-defining moment when you get to stand along someone like Meryl. And so I honestly did not think for one second that it was going to be me.
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Ledger posthumously wins Best Supporting Actor at the 81st Academy Awards for portraying The Joker in The Dark Knight. His father Kim Ledger, mother Sally Bell, and sister Kate Ledger accept the award on his behalf. Kate finished the speeches with a nod to his daughter, Matilda
Heath, we both knew what you had created in the Joker was extraordinarily special and had even talked about being here on this very day. We really wish you were, but we proudly accept this award on behalf of your beautiful Matilda. Thank you.
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Penn wins Best Actor at the 81st Academy Awards for portraying Harvey Milk in Milk.
I did not expect this and…I know how hard I make it to appreciate me.
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Gibney shares Best Documentary, Features Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side with Eva Orner.
This is dedicated to two people who are no longer with us: Dilawar, the young Afghan taxi driver; and my father, a Navy interrogator who urged me to make this film because of his fury about what was being done to the rule of law. Let’s hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light.
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The Coen brothers win the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for No Country for Old Men. Martin Scorsese presents the award.
In the late sixties, when Ethan was eleven or twelve, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super-8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called “Henry Kissinger: Man on the Go.” And honestly, what we do now doesn’t feel that much different from what we were doing then.
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Swinton wins Best Supporting Actress at the 80th Academy Awards for portraying Karen Crowder in Michael Clayton.
I just had a reverse Zoolander moment, where I think I heard someone else’s name and suddenly, slooooooooowly heard my own. I’m still recovering from that moment. You could tell me my dress fell off and I’d believe you.
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Cotillard wins Best Actress at the 80th Academy Awards for portraying Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.
There’s nothing hard about this. It’s a joy, and so surreal. I love it.
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Bardem wins Best Supporting Actor at the 80th Academy Awards for portraying Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.
Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think I could do that and put one of the most horrible hair cuts in history on my head.
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Day-Lewis wins Best Actor at the 80th Academy Awards for portraying Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
In a way, my performance had no thought process. If you’re thinking, in some way you’re already outside it.
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Hudson wins a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Effie White, a member of a girl group, in the 2006 film Dreamgirls.
I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.
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Scorsese wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for the crime drama The Departed. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola present the award.
Could you double-check the envelope? Thank you. I mean, I’m overwhelmed with this honor with the Academy and also the honor of being presented by my old, old friends.
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Whitaker wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Idi Amin in Kevin MacDonald’s biopic The Last King of Scotland. Reese Witherspoon presents the award.
When I was a kid the only way that I saw movies was from the backseat of my family’s car at the drive-in, and it wasn’t my reality to think I would be acting in movies. So receiving this honor tonight tells me that it’s possible, it is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in South Central L.A., in Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. Because when I first started acting, it was because of my desire to connect to everyone, to that thing inside each of us, that light that I believe exists in all of us. Because acting for me is about believing in that connection; and it’s a connection so strong, it’s a connection so deep that we feel it and through our combined belief we can create a new reality.
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Lee wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his drama Brokeback Mountain. Tom Hanks presents the award.
(To the Oscar statuette:) Wow, I wish I knew how to quit you.
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Hoffman wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of American novelist Truman Capote in Bennett Miller’s biopic Capote. Hilary Swank presents the award.
Wow, I’m in a category with some great, great, great actors. Fantastic actors. And I’m overwhelmed, I’m really overwhelmed.
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Eastwood wins the Academy Award for Best Directing for his female boxing drama Million Dollar Baby. Julia Roberts presents the award.
I’m just lucky to be here. Lucky to be still working. And I watched Sidney Lumet out there, who is eighty, and I figure, I’m just a kid. I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet. So thank you all very much. Appreciate it.
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Foxx wins Best Actor for his performance in Ray.
I got a chance to meet a whole lot of people, experiencing this. And other people I want to thank, I want to thank my sister; four foot eleven of nothing but pure love. I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, “If you don’t win, Dad, you’re still good.
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Foxx wins best actor in a leading role for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the based on a true story movie Ray at the 77th annual academy awards.
Yeah, you’re ready. That’s the Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
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Theron wins an Best Actress Oscar for her role in Monster. Theron was asked backstage about her kiss with co-star Ricci while filming the movie.
I can’t believe I’m talking about this after having won an Oscar!
