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Jackson wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Tom Cruise presents the award.
When I was eight years old I made films at home on a Super-8 camera that my mum and dad had bought for me. And they supported me all through the years. And they died in the last few years; they didn’t see these films made. So for Bill and Joan, thank you.
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Penn wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in his portrayal of ex-convict Jimmy Markum in Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River. Nicole Kidman presents the award.
Thank you. If there’s one thing that actors know–other than that there weren’t any WMDs–it’s that there is no such thing as “best” in acting. And that’s proven by these great actors that I was nominated with . . . .
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Zeta-Jones wins the Academy Award for Best Performance of an Actress in a Supporting Role for her portrayal of Roxie Hart in the musical comedy Chicago. Sean Connery presents the award. Zeta-Jones, who is nearly nine-months pregnant, refers to her soon-to-be-born second child and her hormones:
This is too–I mean, my hormones are just too way out of control to be dealing with this.
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Polanski wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his historical drama The Pianist. Harrison Ford presents the award, but since Polanski is not present Ford accepts the Oscar in his absence.
The Academy congratulates Roman Polanski and accepts this award on his behalf.
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Brody wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish musician during World War II who struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. Halle Berry presents the award.
Oh my God. Thank you. Thank you, really. Oh my goodness. It doesn’t come out in slow motion, but it doesn’t really ring a bell–the name. I didn’t know my name when you said that. This Adrien? Okay.
Brody mentions the U.S. invasion of Iraq in his speech, and prays for a peaceful and swift resolution.
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Howard wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his drama Beautiful Mind. Mel Gibson presents the award.
I also want to mention that before my mom (Jean Howard) passed away about eighteen months ago, she predicted that this was going to happen for me on this film. Well, she also made that prediction on every movie that I’ve directed since 1983. So now you know a little something about my mom. Thank you, Mom.
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Washington wins a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Training Day.
It still feels good to know that people appreciate what you’re doing.
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Soderbergh wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for his thriller Traffic. Tom Cruise presents the award.
I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater, a piece of music… Anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us. I think this world would be unliveable without art …
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Roberts wins best actress for her role in Erin Brockovich.
I want to start by telling you all .. how amazing the experience of feeling the sisterhood of being included in a group with Joan Allen, Juliet Binoche, Laura Lenny and Ellen Burstyn for these last weeks and it felt like such such a triumph to me to be in that list.
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The actor wins his first Academy Award for his portrayal of Maximus in Gladiator. He wins the award over fellow nominees: Javier Bardem, Tom Hanks, Ed Harris and Geoffrey Rush. On accepting his award:
A dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anyone who is on the downside of advantage, relying purely on courage, it’s possible.
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Mendes wins the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for the satirical drama American Beauty. Steven Spielberg presents the award.
I want to say thank you to an astonishing young studio, DreamWorks, for having the courage to hire a bloke from English theatre to do a movie about American suburbia, and then trusting him.
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Spacey wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of depressed suburban everyman Lester Burnham in Sam Mendes’s American Beauty. Gwyneth Paltrow presents the award.
This is the highlight of my day. I hope it is not all downhill from here . . . .
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Producers David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1998 for Shakespeare in Love. Harrison Ford presents the award. Weinstein:
I don’t know, we made this movie — this is a movie about life and art. And art and life combining is called magic. For me, this was a great experience, a passion, for five years.
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Benigni wins the Academy award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of Guido, a Jewish father during World War II who protects his son from the harsh reality of a Nazi labor camp, in Life Is Beautiful (“La vita è bella”). Helen Hunt presents the award.
Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don’t deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you!
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Producers James Cameron and Jon Landau win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1997 for Titanic. Sean Connery presents the award. Landau:
So this morning I woke up and couldn’t wait for the day to be over. Now I don’t want it to stop. I can’t act and I can’t compose and I can’t do visual effects, so I guess that’s why I’m producing.
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Williams takes home his first Oscar at the 70th Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Good Will Hunting.
This might be the one time I am speechless…
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Saul Saentz wins the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1996 for The English Patient. Al Pacino presents the award.
I’d like to thank actors. I love actors. Producers are supposed to not be in love with them, but I love ’em.
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Minghella wins the Academy Award for achievement in Directing for his World War II romance The English Patient. Mel Gibson presents the award.
It’s a great day for the Isle of Wight today. Thank you very much.
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Rush wins the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in Scott Hicks’s Shine. Susan Sarandon presents the award.
There’s a game you can play where you create a dinner party where you can invite guests from any time in history, real or fictional. The Academy has honored me by choosing to seat me as “David Helfgott” at a table with “Larry Flynt” and “Count Laszlo de Almásy” and “Karl Childers” and “Jerry Maguire.” I can’t quite imagine where the conversation might head that night, but it has really enriched me as an actor to be seated at that table.
