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Sandra Bullock accepts her award for best actress for The Blind Side - Source: Reuters -
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CATEGORY: Performance by an actor in a leading
role
SPEECH BY: Jeff Bridges
FILM: Crazy Heart
Oh! Thank you, Academy members! Mom and dad, yeah, look!
Whoo!
Thank you, Mom and Dad, for turning me on to such a groovy
profession. Oh, my dad and my mom, they loved show biz so much. I
remember my mom, getting all of us kids to entertain at her
parties. You know, my dad sitting me on his bed and teaching me all
of the basics of acting for a role in Sea Hunt.
They loved showbiz so much and I feel an extension of them. You
know, this, this is honouring them as much as it is me. I wanna, I
wanna thank Scott Cooper, our wonderful director, for his knowledge
of film and country music and for his ability to instil
self-confidence in his actors. I thank you for that. Scott, where
are you? Raise your hand, man. Yeah! Scotty! Thank you for that,
Scott man! And thank you for assembling such a wonderful cast.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin, wherever he is backstage. And Bobby
Duvall, so wonderful you guys brought your heart and soul. I want
to thank Barry Markowitz, our wonderful DP, he did such a brilliant
job. Judy Cairo, our producer, and Fox Searchlight, our wonderful,
our wonderful distributor. Thank you guys for keeping us all
together and for making it all happen. T Bone Burnett and Stephen
Bruton for bringing all of that great music and those wonderful
musicians to the party, man.
My wonderful team that's kept me together. Jean Sievers, David
Schiff, Rick Kurtzman, CAA, Bob Wallerstein, Loyd Catlett, Tarra
Day and Roger Love, man.
Thank you, guys. And I especially want to thank my gorgeous wife,
Sue, we've been married 33 years. We have a beautiful family. Three
girls, Isabelle, Jessie and Hayley. Thank you, guys. I wouldn't be
up here without you. Thank you so much.
CATEGORY: Performance by an actor in a
supporting role
SPEECH BY: Christoph Waltz
FILM: Inglourious Basterds
Oscar and Penélope that's an über bingo. I always
wanted to discover some new continent and I thought I had to go
this way, and then I was introduced to Quentin Tarantino, who was
putting together an expedition that was equipped by Harvey
Weinstein and Lawrence Bender and David Linde, and he put this
script in front of me and he said, "This is where we're going, but
we're going the other way."
So Brad Pitt helped me on board and Diane Kruger was there Melanie
Laurent and Denis Menochet and Bob Richardson and Sally Menke and
Adam Schweitzer and Lisa Kasteler. Everybody helped me find a
place. Universal and The Weinstein Company and ICM and Quentin,
with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer,
took this ship across and brought it in with flying colours and
that's why I'm here.
And this is your welcoming embrace and there's no way I can ever
thank you enough, but I can start right now. Thank you.
CATEGORY: Performance by an actress in a
leading role
SPEECH BY: Sandra Bullock
FILM: The Blind Side
Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would
like to thank the Academy for allowing me in the last month to have
the most incredible ride with rooms full of artists that I see
tonight and that I've worked with before and I hope to work with in
the future, who inspire me and blaze trails for us. Four of them
that I've fallen deeply in love with I share this night with and I
share this award with.
Gabby, I love you so much. You are exquisite. You are beyond words
to me. Carey, your grace and your elegance and your beauty and your
talent makes me sick. Helen, I feel like we are family through
family and I don't have the words to express just what I think of
you. And Meryl, you know what I think of you and you are such a
good kisser.
I have so many people to thank for my good fortune in this lifetime
and this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I know. To the family
that allowed me to play them, the Tuohy family, I know they're in
here and you'll probably hear her in a minute. Maybe not. Thank you
for giving me the opportunity to... the family that made this film
that gave me the opportunity to do something different. John Lee
Hancock, Gil Netter, Alcon, Warner Bros., the actors, everyone
who's shown me kindness when it wasn't fashionable, I thank you. To
everyone who was mean to me when it wasn't... George Clooney threw
me in a pool years ago. I'm still holding a grudge. But there's so
many people to thank.
Not enough time, so I would like to thank what this film is about
for me which are the moms that take care of the babies and the
children no matter where they come from. Those moms and parents
never get thanked. I, in particular, failed to thank one. So... if
I can take this moment to thank Helga B. for not letting me ride in
cars with boys until I was 18 because she was right. I would've
done what she said I was gonna do. For making me practice every day
when I got home. Piano, ballet, whatever it is I wanted to be. She
said to be an artist, you had to practice every day, and for
reminding her daughters that there's no race, no religion, no class
system, no colour, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us
better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. So, to that
trailblazer, who allowed me to have that. And this. And this. I
thank you so much for this opportunity that I share with these
extraordinary women and my lover Meryl Streep. Thank you.
CATEGORY: Performance by an actress in a
supporting role
SPEECH BY: Mo'Nique
FILM: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by
Sapphire
First, I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics. I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to. Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey because you touched it, the whole world saw it. Ricky Anderson, our attorney of Anderson & Smith, thank you for your hard work. My entire BET family, my Precious family, thank you so much. To my amazing husband Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what's popular in order to do what's right. And baby, you were so right. God bless us all.
CATEGORY: Achievement in directing
SPEECH BY: Kathryn Bigelow
FILM: The Hurt Locker
This really is... There's no other way to describe it, it's the
moment of a lifetime. First of all, this is so extraordinary to be
in the company of such powerful, my fellow nominees, such powerful
filmmakers who have inspired me and I have admired for, some of
whom, for decades. And thank you to every member of the Academy.
This is, again, the moment of a lifetime.
I would not be standing here if it wasn't for Mark Boal, who risked
his life for the words on the page and wrote such a courageous
screenplay that I was fortunate enough to have an extraordinary
cast bring that screenplay to life. And Jeremy Renner, Anthony
Mackie and Brian Geraghty. And, I think the secret to directing is
collaborating and I had truly an extraordinary group of
collaborators in my crew. Barry Ackroyd and Kalle
Júlíusson and Bob Murawski, Chris Innis, Ray Beckett,
Richard Stutsman and if I could just also thank my producing
partners, Greg Shapiro, Nick Chartier and my wonderful agent, Brian
Siberell, and the people of Jordan, who were, such a... so
hospitable to us when we were shooting. 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.
