my, my, my. wow. you know, I've been around here -- I've been working and
doing this work for like, over half my life. and I finally got one right I
guess. see, some of them you do for money, some of them you do for
love. this is a love child. Paul Schrader put together -- Paul and Nick
actually put together Affliction. I mean, it was a beautiful script. we
had an extraordinary cast -- Nick, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth
Hurt -- in a screenplay second to none. I'd like to thank all of those
people. plus, Linda Reisman produced it for us. Largo paid for it. Lions
Gate released it. I'd like to thank Hilly Elkins, my manager, and Bobby
Littman my agent. my publicists, Delson and Weissman. I'd like to say
thanks to all the people up in Santa Barbara where I'm working on a thing
called ATTICUS. thank you gang for giving me Monday off. my kids, I say
thanks to my kids... [music playon] Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I've got
to say something else here! This, for my beautiful wife, Paula. she
finally got to come to the Academy Awards. this is for you, baby!

oh boy, I made notes. this is an honor, isn't it? we had a lot of fun
making this movie. and we'd love to thank the art department -- Mark
Raggett, Fran Bennett, Steve Lawrence and all the other heroes, all the
other "Shakespearoes." Andy Evans and his brilliant team of
craftsmen. location manager Rachel Neale. Gill Ducker and Danny and Kevin
and the props boys. oh, Judi Dench for her wonderful news that the Rose
Theatre will survive. the set is being rebuilt beam by beam, and it's
going to last forever this time. oh, wrap up -- the asteroid's
coming. Elaine, and Richard Greatrex, John Madden, and the Academy for
giving us this fantastic thing. thank you very much.

thank you very much.

thank you very much. I'm overjoyed. Cate, this is because of you,
really. Cate looked so wonderful as our Queen Elizabeth, and the way she
wore the hair and makeup that we applied for her. you did this. and also,
thank you to my whole team that worked with me -- Sarah Phillips the
facial hair maker, and Terry Jarvis my brilliant wig maker, and everybody
else. Mary Richards who gave me the money to do it with. and Cate, for
Cate Blanchett. thank you very much.

thank you very much. thank you the Academy. thank you everybody who went
and saw the short films -- more of you have to go. and quickly I want to
thank the cast and crew of this film. without them, we couldn't have done
it. and also on a personal note, I want to thank my family, my mom at home
who's taking care of my kids, my beautiful wife, my father who I share
this with. and last, to some people over here who helped me out -- Mike,
Doc, Neal and Missy. thank you.

thank you, Flik. thank you members of the Academy. this award is
especially thrilling because it's been a labor of love, Bunny, for all of
us at Blue Sky Studios in New York, for many years actually. and so to my
beautiful wife and family, Jean, Sarah and Jack, mom and dad, Nina
Rappaport my producer, Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan for their soulful
music, and every one of you that is now or ever has been a member of Blue
Sky Studios. Thank you all very much for helping me follow my heart and
for pouring so much of yours into Bunny. thank you.

I feel for eight minutes on the screen I should only get a little bit of
him.  I do thank the Academy very much indeed.  I do think also that the
best bit about the Academy Awards is being nominated.  you live in a kind
of haze for several weeks, and the terrible thing is that somebody's got
to win.  my heart goes out to all the other four who didn't.  and also, my
admiration.  I do have to thank John Madden and Tom Stoppard and Marc
Norman, as I actually wrote to John Madden after Mrs. Brown and said "I
will do anything in your next film.  if you want somebody to slouch in a
doorway, you can count on me."  and I mean it, and I hope he bears me in
mind next time.  I do thank you all very much indeed. I am very moved by
it.  thank you. 

this is a great film.  it was a wonderful opportunity for sound, and we
took it.  it is our benchmark.

thank you most of all to Steven Spielberg.  I can't think of
a greater compliment for a director than you inspire people to do their
best work.  and that was certainly true of the people up at Skywalker
Sound.

especially the amazing sound effects editors Ethan Van Der
Ryn, Terry Eckton, Frank Eulner, Karen Wilson, Larry Oatfield, and my
fabulous assistants Lisa Chino and Andri Fenley.

thanks to the indispensable Shannon Mills.  thanks to
Paramount, DreamWorks and especially Marty Cohen.  thanks to our great
foley team Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance.  personal thanks to my family, my
mom and dad, and thanks to Cindy my beautiful trophy wife.  thank you. 

and Liz, and my girlfriend Liz.

for a whole generation that has never had to experience war, Saving
Private Ryan powerfully, and nobly, demonstrates the horror of what that
is. 

I came back, I have more thanking of Steven to do.  Steven,
your eloquence with filmmaking made this film an indelible experience both
to watch and to work on.  I want to thank everyone at Skywalker Sound
again.  the people of Todd-AO West, Richard Hymns and a wonderful editorial
crew.  Paramount, DreamWorks, Marty Cohen.  the entire sound crew strived to
make this film true to the memories and the experiences of soldiers.  and
we are very proud to be a part of it.  thank you. 

thank you Steven.  thank you to the Academy.

thank you!  Sophia, I leave(?) it here the Oscar but I want you.  I want to
be rocked by the waves of your beauty.  come here.  thank you!  thank you!
this is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody because you are the
maker(?) of the joy.  he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity
sunrise, said [the] poet.  and this is wonderful to be here.  wonderful!  I
feel like, now really, to dive in this ocean of generosity, this is too
much.  your generosity, this is, uh, how do you say when the rain, the
hailstorm, it's a hailstorm of kindness, of gratitude for you.  and really
I would like to thank everybody that did the movie because, without them,
I couldn't fly with this movie.  everybody who did -- the producer, the
screenwriter Cerami, Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi, Nicola Piovani,
Vittorio Cecchi Gori.  Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Film[s], thank you very
much for what you did.  and also I would like to thank my parents in
Vergaio, in a little village in Italy.  they gave me their biggest gift,
their poverty, and I want to thank for the lesson(?) of my life.  really,
but thank you mamma and babbo.  thank you!  and thank you for your
love.  because if I am here it's because people love the movies.  so it's
always a question of love.  I would like to dedicate this prize to those,
because the subject the movie, those who are not here, they gave their
life in order [that] we can say 'life is beautiful.'  and I would like to
also say, a kiss to Giorgio Cantarini, Giorgio the little boy.  and because
we are talking love, Dante said "l'amore che muove il soleele altre
stelle," love will move the sun and the other stars.  love is a divinity,
and sometimes if you have faith, like all the divinities it can
appear.  that's why I want to dedicate this prize to Nicoletta
Braschi.  thank you.

it's a very, very exciting moment.  thank you very much.  especially exciting
because John Madden is such a fantastically stimulating person to
collaborate with.  so thank you John.  thank you to the Academy.  thank you
to Sarah, Jessica, Herbert, Matilda.  and thank you to my mother and
father.  thank you to the lovely producers, without whom we wouldn't be
here or the people involved in this.  thank you to William Shakespeare,
Bertolt Brecht, and The Kippers for inspiring me to write music for the
theater and other things.  and thank you, thank you to all the friends who
worked on the music, without whom it would just be squiggles on a piece of
paper.  John Parricelli, Eleanor Alberga, Chris Dibble, Nick Ingman, Martin
Robinson, Paul, Gary and Frank.  thank you very much indeed.  this is
lovely.  thank you.

it's impossible for me in this moment [to] speak about my emotion in
English.  I can tell just: Thank you to the jury.  thank you the
Academy.  thank you Roberto.

wow, thank you very much.  I feel so proud to have played a role in the
making of this historical motion picture.  I'm so grateful to you, Steven,
for giving me the opportunity to excel and grow as a person on this
humbling World War II movie.  thank you.  I'm also grateful to my
family.  Chickie my wife, and Julie, Ken, and Adam and Allison Zunder for
their love and support during this war effort.  and special good wishes to
my brother and sister, Lee and Mickey, on the east coast.  I'm very
honored.  thank you very much.

not bad for a goy.  what do you say, Irving?  they really keep this show
going.  forty years of filmmaking and they did it in three minutes!  well,
Irving, you're one heavy dude.  I'll tell you that...  you want to hold him?
he's about 20 pounds!  there's a lot of people to thank, of course, but
Irving once said that brevity is a great virtue.  so, I accept this great
honor tonight in the names of all those people who have contributed to my
work, my life's work.  forty years ago, I sat at William Wyler's feet and
tried to learn how to make movies.  and Willy Wyler was a god to me, and he
won this award.  and I think that's what is so meaningful to me, to join
all those filmmakers that have gone before.  I would like to thank my
immediate loved ones, my family, every actor, writer, editor,
cinematographer, production designer, costume designer, sound man and
editor I've ever worked with.  all those crews in Europe and Canada and the
United States.  and my one real regret about winning this prize is that,
you know, it's not like the Nobel or the Pulitzer.  I mean, the Thalberg
award comes with no money attached.  if it did, if it did, I would share it
with the Canadian Film Centre and the AFI where the next generation of
filmmakers are preparing to entertain the world in the new millennium.  and
my parting thought to all those young filmmakers is this: just find some
good stories.  never mind the gross, the top ten, bottom ten, what's the
rating, what's the demographic.  you know something, the biggest grossing
picture is not necessarily the best picture, I want to tell you
something.  so just tell stories that move us to laughter and tears and
perhaps reveal a little truth about ourselves.  and as for myself, I hope
to see you again next year! 

whoo!  what dreams have come.  we'd like to thank Vincent Ward for his
amazing vision.  Stephen Simon, Barnet Bain for their faith.  Ellen Somers,
Eugenio Zanetti, all the folks at Interscope.  and I'd like to thank my
colleagues at Mannix Entertainment, and my wife Robin and kids.  and
Nick...

thank you for letting us make something beautiful and
cruelty-free.  And this one's for Mass.Illusion.  to Pierre Jasmin, Mike
Schmitt, Donna Langston, and to Joshua Rosen.  and this to my wife and my
family.  thank you. 

thanks to Mary(?), my family, Mike Joyce, Rocco, Deak,
and Yannick.  Ken, Andrea, Lawrence, and David.  Ellen Somers and POP
Film.  Mack...

I want to thank Scott Ross and all the wonderful folks at
Digital Domain, and my family.  love is groovy.  be positive.

thank you!  this is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English.  I
don't know!  I am not able to express all my gratitude, because now, my
body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so everything is
really in a way that I cannot express.  I would like to be Jupiter!  and
kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody,
because I don't know how to express.  it's a question of love.  you are
really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the
kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my
heart.  and thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the
movie.  thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia
who made me.  I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something
good.  so grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things
here.  thank you very much.  and I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I
hope to win some other Oscars!  thank you!  thank you very much!  thank you!

thank you.  who would have thought a girl from Japan can make a movie about
Jewish senior citizens and actually receive this award.  thank you.  I'm
extremely grateful to Seth Glassman and my wonderful, wonderful seniors in
my movie.  and extra special, special thanks to Sheila Nevins of HBO, and
my editor Milton Ginsberg, who's here up there somewhere, and my
cinematographer, my co-filmmaker, my husband, Greg Pak.  and I would also
like to thank the Academy for recognizing the short documentary films.  and
I hope that you will continue to do so.  and finally, my mother for letting
me come to the United States so I can follow my dream to become a
filmmaker.  thank you.

thank you.  on behalf of the producer of the film, June Beallor, who I
share this honor with, and the other producer of the film, Ken Lipper, and
everybody involved with the making of THE LAST DAYS, we want to thank the
five amazing Shoah survivors who shared their truly inspirational lives
with us.  we also want to thank Evelyn Lipper, Anne Marie Stein, and of
course October Films and Good Machine for getting this film seen around
the world.  and last but not least, certainly but not least, our executive
producer Steven Spielberg, for his strength of character and his vision in
establishing the Shoah Foundation, videotaping more than fifty thousand survivor
testimonies all over the world and ensuring through those testimonies and
through this film that survivors will have a voice for generations to
come.  thank you.

I thank you very much.  I really like to hear that.  I want to thank the
Academy for its courage, generosity, and I want to tell you that I've been
a member of the Academy on and off for I don't know how many years.  so I'm
pleased to say what's best about them, they're damn good to work with.  I
also want to thank...  Marty?  where are you?  where are you, hiding behind
me?  where's Marty?  thank you [hugging Martin Scorsese].  and Bobby, Bobby
De Niro [hugging Robert De Niro].  I want to thank you all very much. I
think I can just slip away.  [Turning back to his wife on stage:]  do you
want me to say anything more?

I'd like to congratulate Whoopi for having the guts to wear that Velvet
Goldmine costume.  two nominations, one speech.  I want to thank everybody I
worked with on both films.  there are too many names, it would be too
boring.  but really, this mostly is my brilliant, fantastic team that
worked with me on everything.  thank you, everybody.  thank you.

thank you very much.  behind the hand-held camera there are people, and
that's Mitch Dubin, Seamus and Chris Haarhoff.  and I want to thank you
very much.  I want to thank the producers, of course the actors, Steven the
great collaborator, my sugar bear Holly. 

I would like to thank the Academy from the bottom of my heart.  I would
like to thank Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro and my friend Cate
Blanchett and the greatest one who ever was, Meryl Streep.  I don't feel
very deserving of this in your presence.  but, I would like to thank Harvey
Weinstein and everybody at Miramax Films for their undying support of
me.  I would like to -- I wouldn't be in this auditorium, let alone up here
if it wasn't for two incredibly talented men.  our director John Madden,
thank you so much for all that you gave me. You are so inspiring.  and to
my soulful partner, Joseph Fiennes, who I share this with.  I wouldn't be
here without him.  I would like to thank the rest of our miraculous cast
and crew.  our producers Donna Gigliotti and David Parfitt -- I didn't
forget you this time!  especially Jim Magill and Sophie Shand and my friend
Ben Affleck.  I would like to thank my wonderful agent Rick Kurtzman who is
a beautiful man and a wonderful agent and in his case that is not an
oxymoron.  I would like to thank Harold Brown, Stuart Gelwarg(sp?), and
Stephen Huvane.  I would not have been able to play this role had I not
understood love of a tremendous magnitude and for that I thank my
family.  my mother Blythe Danner who I love more than anything, and my
brother Jake Paltrow who is just the dearest person in the whole world.  my
earthly guardian angel Mary Wigmore.  and especially to my father, Bruce
Paltrow, who has surmounted insurmountable obstacles this year.  I love you
more than anything in the world.  and to my grandpa Buster, who almost made
it here tonight, but couldn't quite get here.  grandpa, I want you to know
that you have created a beautiful family who loves you and loves each
other more than anything, and we thank you for that.  I would like to
dedicate this to two young men who lost their lives very early.  Harrison
Kravis and my cousin Keith Paltrow.  we miss you very much.  and I thank
you.  thank you so much everybody!

thank you so much.  I see the thirty...  This Gods and Monsters is based on
Chris Bram's novel Father of Frankenstein and it's a very faithful
adaptation, so first I have to thank him.  these actors sitting in front of
me, Brendan, Ian and Lynn, these geniuses who made this all work.  this is
yours.  thank you so much.  I have to thank Gregg Fienberg, Clive Barker,
all my friends at Regent, Paul Colichman, Mark Harris and Steve
Jarchow.  Flashpoint, BBC, Showtime, the great Lions Gate who we wouldn't
be here without, Mark Urman and Tom Ortenberg.  so many friends and family
past, missing and absent -- absent and here -- Mason Wiley, Flo(?) and
Bill(?), the great Jack Morrissey.  critics from around the country, people
like Peter Travers who made a mission out of this movie.  and, of course,
most of all, James Whale.  sixty years ago, Hollywood sort of turned its
back on him because he insisted on living the way he wanted to.  so
Mr. Jimmy, this is for you.  thank you.

well, speaking of leaks.  we get few enough chances in our lives to put
pleasure into the world.  I feel very happy and lucky to be -- having been
connected with Shakespeare in Love.  I'd like to thank on behalf of Tom,
everybody at Miramax who worked so hard, especially Harvey Weinstein, a
man of dedication and vision.  a cast and crew that was exceptional.  they
are doing pretty well tonight as you've seen.  my personal thanks to my
family, my wife Dale, my sons Alex and Zach.  all my parents, all my
parents-in-law, who I will be with shortly when all this wonderful hoo-ha
is over.  thank you. 

I'm behaving like Roberto Benigni underneath.  thank you.  my
thanks -- please don't clap, they'll play the music.  my thanks to the
Academy, to Marc, to Donna Gigliotti and David Parfitt, who played good
cop and very sweet cop to comissioner Harvey.  to John Madden who is
available.  and since Gwyneth mentioned her agent, I thought I'd mention
mine, he's older and nicer.  Ken Ewing is my guest tonight.  I sent him my
first play thirty-eight years ago, and we're still here.  thank you.  and
for the hell of it, hi Ollie, Barney, Will and Ed.  thanks. 

thank you.  am I allowed to say I really wanted this?  this is
fantastic.  let me just turn my eyes to Mr. Hanks who from the very, very
beginning said to me this is going to be something extraordinary.  we
weren't really talking about the film, we were talking about the
experience of making Saving Private Ryan, and he was right.  it is one of
the most extraordinary events of all of our lives, and the lives of all of
our families, we were all in it together.  Katie, for putting up with how
much I've worried about this movie for the last eighteen months.  thank you
for letting me be a neurotic at home.  and all my children.  I have two kids
here tonight and they've never been to the Oscars before and I'm really
happy I had a chance to make Max and Theo proud of their dad, and they're
sitting up there somewhere.  thank you kids, very, very much.  and my other
kids at home Mikaela and Destry and Sasha and Sawyer, and Jessica who is
here, too.  this has just been an amazing experience and what I'd like to
do is just thank very, very sincerely the families who lost sons in World
War II.  I want to thank the Niland family and the Sullivan families, and I
want to thank all the families who incurred these tremendous losses.  in
this war we tried to show a story of one such family, and it turned up
there were many such families, unfortunately.  and dad, you're the
greatest.  Thank you for showing me that there is honor in looking back and
respecting the past.  I love you very much.  this is for you.  thank you.

wow, this is just fantastic.  thank you to the members of the Academy.  we
share this award with John Madden, because we wouldn't be up here without
him.  he made us look real good, and that there is no director, that --
he's a producer's dream.  the other people that we share this with -- I
think I'm forgetting them -- are my own personal lucky charm, Ms. Gwyneth
Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Ben
Affleck -- I saw you there.  Rupert Everett, and -- David, come help me
here for a minute please... 

well, we'd also like to thank Universal, who with Ed and
Marc, started all of this.  and Miramax who had the courage to finish it. 

our fantastic crew.  and who else are we thanking? 

I'd like to thank Mark Cooper, Cleone Clarke, and my partner in all
things Liz Barron.  thank you. 

the other guy that we really need to thank though is Harvey Weinstein,
who had the guts, the courage, the commitment to make this picture and get
it done.  here he is.  say a few words... 

this was an ensemble film, and it took an ensemble team
to make it.  I want to thank, at Disney, Michael Eisner and Joe Roth,
who've given me great latitude and great support.  at Universal, Edgar
Bronfman, Ron Meyer, Stacey [Snider], Nadia Bronson, Chris McGurk.  at
Miramax, my brilliant Meryl Poster, my head of production who rocks the
universe and makes us look good.  oh man, Julie Goldstein, who is the most
persevering, brilliant executive producer.  to Bob Osher, to Mark Gill and
Marcy Granata who are the one and two most dynamite marketing team. 

and your brother Bob... 

I'm getting there, okay.  I don't know, we made this movie -- this is a
movie about life and art.  and art and life combining is called magic.  for
me, this was a great experience, a passion, for five years.  and nobody
inspires me more than my brother Bob, who is my partner and best friend
every day.  my loving wife Eve, my two rotten kids Lily and Emma.  my
beautiful nieces, Sarah and Nicole.  and my mom Miriam.  the Miriam of
Miramax [music playon] who makes Jewish mothers look good.  okay, and the
rest of you guys, thank you.