Oscar Acceptance Speeches 2008

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2008 Oscar Acceptance Speeches

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Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech

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• Best Picture Oscar Acceptance Speech by Scott Rudin: This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. So many people have a part of this, chief among them Cormac McCarthy who wrote a wonderful book that it was an honor to make into a movie. The three men sitting down front: Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem; without them there would be no movie. These two gentlemen, I can't think of anybody I would rather be standing here with than the two of you. Thank you so much for this.

• Everybody at Vantage and Miramax, who financed the movie together. The entire team at Miramax who did a brilliant, brilliant job selling it. Thank you to all of them. I want to thank Mark Roybal; it's a pleasure to work with him every day. I want to thank my friend Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility – with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This is for him.

• This is also for my partner John Barlow. Without you, honey, this would be hardware. Thank you so much. Thank you.
  
  

Best Actor Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Best Actor and Actress (Time: 2:07)
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• Daniel Day-Lewis Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: That's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood. Thank you. My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the hansomest bludgeon in town. I'm looking at this gorgeous thing that you've given me, and I'm thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since. This sprang like a golden sampling from the mad beautiful head of Paul Thomas ANderson. I wish my son and partner HW Plainview were up here with me. So many people to thank. One amongst them Mrs Plainview down there, the enchantingly optimistic and open minded Rebecca Miller. I hope that all those who I owe and who I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say simply thank you, Paul. I've been thinking about fathers and sons in the course of all this. I would like to accept this in honor of my grandfather, Michael Bolkin, my father Cecil Day Lewis, and my three fine boys Gabrielle, Ronan, and Casil.
  
  

Best Cinematography Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Achievement in Cinematography (Time: 2:53)
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• Robert Elswit Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: John Toll won this a number of years ago said that the production designer on his movie, that 50% of it belonged to him. Well, 80% belongs to Jack Fisk and his production crew. And David Crank and Dylan Tichenor. But it really, we all know it really, really belongs to Paul. That this is his imagination and his energy and his extraordinary vision. It sort of enabled us to create the world of "There Will Be Blood." Thank you, Paul. We're really all standing on the shoulders, we know this, of Daniel Day-Lewis, who isn't here right now, but thank you all so much. Thank you. And Helen. Thank you so much.
  
  

Best Song Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Best Original Song (Time: 3:08)
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• Best Song Oscar Acceptance Speech
  • Glen Hansard:
    • Thanks! This is amazing. What are we doing here? This is mad. We made this film two years ago. We shot on two Handycams. It took us three weeks to make. We made it for a hundred grand. We never thought we would come into a room like this and be in front of you people. It's been an amazing thing. Thanks for taking this film seriously, all of you. It means a lot to us. Thanks to the Academy, thanks to all the people who've helped us, they know who they are, we don't need to say them. This is amazing. Make art. Make art. Thanks.
  • Marketa Irglova:
    • Hi everyone. I just want to thank you so much. This is such a big deal, not only for us, but for all other independent musicians and artists that spend most of their time struggling, and this, the fact that we're standing here tonight, the fact that we're able to hold this, it's just to prove no matter how far out your dreams are, it's possible. And, you know, fair play to those who dare to dream and don't give up. And this song was written from a perspective of hope, and hope at the end of the day connects us all, no matter how different we are. And so thank you so much, who helped us along the way. Thank you.
      
      

Best Actress Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Time: 4:50)
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• Marion Cotillard Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Oh -- thank you so much. Olivier, what you did to me, Maestro Olivier Dahan, you rocked my life. You truly rocked my life. Thank you so much to Picturehouse for your passion, members of the Academy, thank you so, so much. And -- wow. Well, I'm speechless now. I -- I -- well, I -- thank you life, thank you love, and it is true, there is some angels in this city. Thank you so, so much.
  
  

Best Film Editing Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Achievement in Film Editing (Time: 2:24)
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• Best Editing Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Forty-eight years ago, my father was privileged enough to receive an Oscar, and I'm deeply, deeply honored that you put me in his company tonight. To the brilliant Paul Greengrass, to Frank Marshall, thank you, thank you, thank you. To everybody in post-production, led by my good friend and colleague, Mark Fitzgerald, each and every one of you share in this award with me. To Universal Pictures, to the Academy, my deepest, deepest thanks. To the amazing Matt Damon, thank you. And to my family, especially Anne, Anno, Ava and Fiona. My kids, I love you. Thank you so, so much.
  
  

Best Supporting Actress Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Best Supporting Actor and Actress (Time: 1:45)  
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• Tilda Swinton Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Oh, no. Happy birthday, man. I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this. Really truly the same shape head and, it has to be said, the buttocks. And I'm giving this to him because there's no way I would be in America at all ever on a plane, if it wasn't for him. So, Brian Swardstrom, I'm giving this to you. And Tony Gilroy walks on water, it's entirely official as far as I'm concerned, and Jen Fox and Steve Samuels, our incredible producers. And Sydney Pollack, and George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art, seeing you climb into that rubber bat suit from "Batman & Robin," the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch, you rock, man. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
  
  

Best Animated Short Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube Video: Best Animated Short Film (Time: 3:02)
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• Best Animated Short Film Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Thank you, thank you very much. I don't really speak English. I'm very bad student. I can say I'm very happy and I want to thank my producer Fabrice Goldstein and Antoine Rein and my wife Gaby and my son Sebastien. And merci beaucoups [speaking French] Merci au revoir. - Hugh Welchman
  
  

Best Supporting Actor Acceptance Speech

• YouTube: Javier Bardem Best Supporting Actor (Time: 10:59)  
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• Javier Bardem Oscar Acceptance Speech from Oscars.org: Wow. Alright, this is very amazing. It's a great honor for me to have this. I want to & I have to speak fast here, man. Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that and put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head. Thank you for really proving my work. I want to share this with the cast, with the great Tommy Lee Jones, with the great Josh Brolin, with the great Kelly MacDonald. And I want to dedicate this to my mother, and I have to say this in Spanish, and I'm sorry...ama, estos para ti, estos para tus abuelos, para tus padres y la familia Matilde, esto es para los comicos de España, que han traido como tu la dignidad y el orgullo a nuestro officio. Esto is para España y esto es para todos nosotros. Thank you very much!

• Translation: Mom, this is for you, this is for your grandparents, for your parents and the Matilde family, this is for the comedians of Spain, who have, like you, brought dignity and pride to our profession. This is for Spain, and this is for all of us.
  
  

Best Animated Feature Oscar Acceptance Speech

• YouTube: Brad Bird Acceptance Speech (Time: 4:17)
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• Brad Bird Acceptance Speech: I think I'm going to throw up too. I want to thank the Academy and my Jr. High guidance counselor. Where he said, "What do you want to do with your life?" And I said, "Make movies." And he said, "What if there were no movies?" I said, "I'll make some." We went on like this until we got sick of each other. I realize that he gave me the best training for making films.
• I want to thank my wife Liz and my kids. All the dreamers at Pixar and Disney....
• And all the dreamers who are supporting a rat that dreams....
  
  

Best Costume Design Oscar Acceptance Speech

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• Alexandra Byrne Oscar Acceptance Speech: Wow. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to Working Title and Universal. To Shekhar and to Cate. And a huge thank you to my brilliant team and to my family. Thank you.

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