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24 Feb, 2013

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Producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2012 for Argo. Jack Nicholson, and Michelle Obama, via satellite link from Washington, D.C., present the award. Affleck:

You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s gonna happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up. Violet, Sam and Sera, I love you; this is for you.

"Argo" winning Best Picture

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Lee wins his second Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his film adaptation of Yann Martel’s shipwreck drama Life of Pi. Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas present the award.

Thank you, movie god. I really need to share this with all three thousand, everybody worked with me on “Life of Pi.”

Ang Lee ‪winning the Oscar® for Directing "Life of Pi"

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Waltz wins Best Supporting Actor at the 85th Academy Awards for portraying Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained.

When I read the script for the first time, I realized that there was something special about this film. I know Quentin, and I read the pages more or less as they came out of the printer. Page by page, I realized that something special was in the making.

Christoph Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor for "Django Unchained"

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Day-Lewis wins Best Actor at the 85th Academy Awards for portraying Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln.

I think I’m definitely out of character at this moment, but if I slip back into it by mistake you can do an intervention of some kind. The Heimlich maneuver.

Daniel Day-Lewis winning Best Actor for "Lincoln"

26 Feb, 2012

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Hazanavicius wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his drama The Artist. Michael Douglas presents the award.

Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. I have an Oscar. I forgot my speech. Okay. I am the happiest director in the world right now. Thank you for that. Thank you, the Academy.

Michel Hazanavicius Wins Best Director: 2012 Oscars

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DuJardin wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of silent movie star George Valentin in Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist. Natalie Portman presents the award.

Thank you. Ouais! I love your country. Okay. Thank you to the Academy. It’s funny because in 1929 it wasn’t Billy Crystal but Douglas Fairbanks who hosted the first Oscar ceremony. Tickets cost five dollars and it lasted fifteen minutes. Times have changed. So thank you, Douglas Fairbanks . . . . And if George Valentin could speak, he’d say: Wouaou! Putain! Genial! Merci! Formidable! Merci beaucoup! I love you!

Jean Dujardin Wins Best Actor: 2012 Oscars

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Plummer wins Best Supporting Actor at the 84th Academy Awards for portraying Hal Fields in Beginners.

Actors are universally the same, gay or straight. A gay actor can play a straight role and vice versa.

Christopher Plummer Wins Supporting Actor: 2012 Oscars

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Dujardin wins Best Actor at the 84th Academy Awards for portraying George Valentin in The Artist.

I’m not an American actor, I’m a French actor. I will continue in France. If it’s possible I can make another silent film in America, I’d like to! I will always be a French actor in America, so if would work in America, I would always be that and look for parts that would work for that. I do have a few ideas I’d like to develop in Hollywood.

Jean Dujardin Wins Best Actor: 2012 Oscars

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Streep wins the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 84th Academy Awards for portraying Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

When they called my name I had the feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘oh, no. Come on.

Meryl Streep Wins Best Actress | 84th Oscars (2012)

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Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 84th Academy Awards for her portrayal of Minnie Jackson in The Help.

Thank you Academy for giving me the hottest guy in the room. I share this with everybody.

Octavia Spencer Wins Best Supporting Actress: 84th Oscars (2012)

27 Feb, 2011

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Hooper wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his historical drama The King’s Speech. Hilary Swank and Kathryn Bigelow present the award.

. . . my mum in 2007 was invited . . . in London to a fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called “The King’s Speech.” Now she’s never been invited to a play reading in her entire life before. She almost didn’t go because it didn’t sound exactly promising, but thank god she did because she came home, rang me up and said, “Tom, I think I found your next film.” So with this (holding up the Oscar) tonight, I honor you. And the moral of the story is: Listen to your mother.

Tom Hooper ‪winning the Oscar® for Directing

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Firth wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of King George VI in Tom Hooper’s The King’s SpeechSandra Bullock presents the award.

I have a feeling my career has just peaked. My deepest thanks to the Academy . . . .

Colin Firth winning Best Actor | 83rd Oscars (2011)

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Leo wins Best Supporting Actress at the 83rd Academy Awards for portraying Alice Ward in The Fighter. She speaks on using an expletive in her acceptance speech.

I really don’t mean to offend, and probably a very inappropriate place to use that particular word. There’s a great deal of the English language that is in my vernacular.

Melissa Leo winning Best Supporting Actress | 83rd Oscars (2011)

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Firth wins Best Actor at the 83rd Academy Awards for portraying King George VI in The King’s Speech. He speaks on post-Oscar plans.

I think I’m going to cook a lot. I don’t think I’m particularly good at it, but I’m going to inflict my cooking on anybody within range. I tend to find that’s a very good way to decompress. But I’ll probably be the only one eating it.

Colin Firth winning Best Actor | 83rd Oscars (2011)

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Bale wins Best Supporting Actor at the 83rd Academy Awards for portraying Dicky Eklund in The Fighter.

I didn’t think I was like this. Thanks to my wonderful wife and our little girl, who’s taught me so much more than I’ll ever be able to teach her.

Christian Bale winning Best Supporting Actor | 83rd Oscars (2011)

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The actress wins her first Academy Award for her portrayal of Nina Sayers/The Swan Queen in the 2010 drama Black Swan.  She wins the award over fellow nominees: Annete Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, and Michelle Williams.

I want to thank my parents for giving me the opportunity to work from such an early age. My beautiful love, Benjamin, who has now given me my most important role of my life

Natalie Portman winning Best Actress | 83rd Oscars (2011)

8 Mar, 2010

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sandraBullock wins her first Academy Award as Best Actress for the movie The Blind Side. On thanking her mom:

She reminded her daughters that there’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love.

7 Mar, 2010

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Bigelow wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for her war drama The Hurt Locker. Bigelow is the first woman to win an Oscar for directing. Barbra Streisand presents the award.

And I’d just like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world. And may they come home safe. Thank you.

Kathryn Bigelow Wins Best Directing | 82nd Oscars (2010)

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Waltz wins Best Supporting Actor at the 82nd Academy Awards for portraying SS Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.

There’s no way I can thank you enough, but I can start right now. Thank you.

Christoph Waltz Wins Supporting Actor: 2010 Oscars

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Bridges wins Best Actor at the 82nd Academy Awards for portraying Otis “Bad” Blake in Crazy Heart.

Thank you, Mom and Dad, for getting me into such a groovy profession.

Jeff Bridges Wins Best Actor: 2010 Oscars