All the people who help you in this crazy business, I want to thank you. To my family and my agents and Maryellen Mulcahy, without whom I would never be here. Sony Pictures Classics and especially Michael Barker. To Fred Berner, Peter Brant and Joe Allen, thank you for rearing this film and for ushering it into the world.
Dad, who's here tonight, thank you for teaching me how to soldier through tough situations, and Mom, for teaching me how to do it gracefully. De Academy Award voor beste vrouwelijke bijrol is een Amerikaanse filmprijs van de. You are a brave director and an even braver actor and I love you. Ed Harris, thank you for inviting me to share your passion. Thank you for taking the time to even view the tape and consider our film. His is one of the best male performances of this era, almost Brando-like in its redefinition of masculinity on screen and yet was ignored in favour of Crowe’s career-ending, two-dimensional posturing in Gladiator.Date & Venue: MaShrine Auditorium & Expo Center I also don’t understand how in this year Linney and Lonergan get nominated for You Can Count On Me but Ruffalo doesn’t. would’ve received an Adapted Screenplay nod? Production Design, Cinematography? Connelly, who was ignored here in a fairly tepid category but won the following year for a ho-hum performance in A Beautiful Mind? Burstyn’s nomination was out of respect but no one in the Academy actually watched Requiem For A Dream. Actress in a Supporting Role: Marcia Gay Harden in MYSTIC RIVER. Her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock received critical acclaim, earning her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. How I pick My oscar picks: After the Nominations are revealed, I go to the predict the. (Note: In most cases, you’ll have to click through to YouTube in order to watch the speeches, as embedding has been disabled at the request of copyright owners. But she was Requem’s sole nomination - if Academy members had actually watched it, surely Aronofsky & Selby Jr. Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress who has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Leading up to the 2011 Oscars, we’ll showcase the past twenty years of Oscar Acceptance Speeches by Best Actress winners and Best Supporting Actress winners. I have a theory that none of the Academy actually watched Requiem For A Dream - not that Burstyn was going to topple Roberts that year (she wouid’ve been foolish to think so).
Prognosticators knew the category was ripe for an upset which is what makes Marcia’s win one of the most beloved among Oscar watchers - it’s the last time there was a genuine upset in an acting category. Kate’s momentum had obviously waned by Oscar night because the film was a flop (and isn’t that good anyway). Marcia Gay Harden (with her second Best Supporting Actress nomination after an Oscar win for Pollock (2000)) as Celeste Boyle, a suspicious, terrified wife (. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community, and proud to be out of touch. And we, you know, we bring up subjects, we are the ones-this Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. We're the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. She was also nominated for an Oscar for her role in Clint Eastwoods Mystic River.
Īnd finally, I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while, I think. Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress, born on August 14, 1959.
They are stellar performances and wonderful work, and I'm honored, truly honored to be up here. You look at these performances this year, of these actors, and unless we all did the same role-everybody put on a bat suit, we'll all try that-unless we all did the same role, I don't know how you compare it. Listen, I don't quite know how you compare art. In her Oscars acceptance speech for Pollock, she paid tribute to Dad for teaching me how to soldier through tough situations and Mum for helping me to do it gracefully. It will be: Oscar winner George Clooney, Sexiest Man Alive 1997, Batman, died today in a freak accident. Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney during Mystic River Premiere, NY at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, New York, United States. It's a funny thing about winning an Academy Award, this will always be sort of synonymous with your name from here on in. George Clooney's acceptance speech at the Oscars.