Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICGLTAMpJA
I loved it. Here is the transcript:
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, Alcan, 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 color, 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
Billy Bob Thornton is abusing Botox in the most unfortunate way. I would have paid much closer attention to the plot of this movie, if I hadn't spent the first 45 minutes marvelling at the smoothness of his fifty-something forehead. It truly was something to behold. I don't have to tell you it's not a good sign when the actor's plastic surgery is more captivating than the actual goings-on of the film. Not that, School for Scoundrels is a total failure. Jon Heder (aka Napoleon Dynamite) really is an engaging, sympathetic figure and I was rooting for him the whole way.
Marie-Antoinette was awesome. Full of anachronisms, devoid of any historical insight into the fall of the French monarchy but awesome nonetheless. Imagine what a really good episode of Laguna Beach might have looked like if TV networks and demographics had existed in the 18th century and you have a pretty good idea of what Marie-Antoinette is. Half of you will think that sounds dreadful but I thought it was lovely. Funny, sad, the whole emotional gamut, you know. Sofia Coppola is great at this whole "young woman, wanting for nothing, and yet still plunged in an existential malaise" thing. 
I have seen the best movie of the year and it's name is "The Queen." I had to bribe my cousin to make her come into the theatre with me, such was her dismay at the very notion of sitting through a dry biographical take on the life of seventy-one year old British woman. And yet as we emerged from the theatre, two and a half hours later, even she had to admit that this was a movie really unlike any other released this year (in a good way).
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