The Award: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Reader
The Speech: Coming at her acceptance speech with the typical British lovey charm that we all adore her for, Kate’s speech is funny without being arrogant, tongue-in-cheek without being dismissive, and that bit where she sees her dad is a heart-string tugger...
“I’d be lying if I haven’t made a version of this speech before, I think I was probably about eight years old in front of the bathroom mirror, and this would have been a shampoo bottle. Well it’s not a shampoo bottle now.
I feel very fortunate to have made it all the way from there to here and I’d like to thank some of the people along the way who had faith in me.
I’m very lucky. Anthony [Minghella] and Sydney [Pollack]... this is for you. And I want to acknowledge my fellow nominees, these goddesses. I think we all can’t believe we were in the category along with Meryl Streep at all! I’m sorry Meryl, but you have to just suck that up.”
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Ali1748
Feb 23rd 2010, 17:06
Cuba's speech wasn't that bad , he just got emotional.
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kaysad
Feb 23rd 2010, 20:04
The lady trying to get Gerda Weissmann Klein off the stage must of felt like s**t afterwards! and the music guys!
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Toursiveu
Feb 23rd 2010, 21:29
Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman's speeches when they won Best Director and Supporting Actor for Unforgiven are just pure class. They made us understand that they don't take all this seriously, they did it with humor and dignity. Worst speech ever in my opinion? Julia Roberts winning for Erin Brockovich. But maybe it's because I just can't stand her...
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bookster8
Feb 23rd 2010, 21:43
oh boo hoo, the precious Oscars were ruined because we had to think about how sexist/racist Hollywood is. cry about it some more.
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mitchsn
Feb 24th 2010, 1:42
#20 Except that Sacheen Littlefeather's real name is Maria Cruz, a Mexican actress.
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dcmcrae
Feb 24th 2010, 4:49
Christ! The worst thing about geeks is that they cant understand feelings and this is such a case! Gwenyth Paltrow was over happy and so was Halle Berry when they won and their reactions were understandable. Grow up, get a life and move out of your parents basement kiddos of Totalfilm.
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