Thank you very much. This is the first time in the Oscar -- I am a little bit nervous. First of all, I have to thanks for my parents because they are not there. I hope that they can listen to me somewhere here because they are already gone. And I want to thank my family to support what I am working on and especially, thanks for Ang Lee. Whew! My grandfather's name was Stan Williams. He was a cinematographer in the second World War. My uncle David, David William Crowe, he died last year at the age of 66. I'd like to thank the Academy for something that, which is pretty surprising, and dedicate it to two men who still continue to inspire me. I would also like to thank my mom and dad, who I just don't thank enough, I suppose. And an incredible cast, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou, Ralf Moeller, Spencer Treat Clark, the magnificent Richard Harris, the late Oliver Reed, Tomas Arana, Tommy Flanagan, Derek Jacobi, and everybody else. Dreamworks, a great company, and a vital and andrenalized contributor of the art form, Doug Wick, David Franzoni, Bruno Lustig, and Terry Needham, and a very brave crew collected from 22 different countries around the world. To the people who work for me, who work with me, my personal cavalry, George Freeman, Alan Hergott, Larry Witser, Shirley Pierce, Robin Baum, Mark Dumbrell. But, really, folks, I owe this to one bloke, and his name is Ridley Scott. You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. Thanks very much. Oh, thank you, thank you ever so much. I'm so happy. Thank you. I have, I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. And sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick so why don't you sit because I may never be here again. I would like to start with telling you all how amazing the experience of feeling the sisterhood of being included in a group with Joan Allen and Juliette Binoche and Laura Linney and Ellen Burstyn for these last weeks, has been, it's just felt like such a triumph to me to be in that list. My name starts with "R" so I'm always last, but I still love the list. But I can't believe this is, this is quite pretty. I want to acknowledge so many people that made Erin Brokovich ERIN BROKOVICH. But let me make my dress pretty. Universal, everybody at Universal, Kevin Misher and Stacey Snider and Stacey Sher and I can't believe I'm remembering everybody's name. Jersey Films, Danny Devito, and everybody over there. Everyone I've ever met in my life. This movie was sinfully fun to make, and Albert Finney is my friend, and my pleasure to act with. And Aaron Eckhart and Scotty and Gemmenne and Brittany and Ashley, all the wonderful actors that played my children. And Marg Helgenberger. And turn that clock off, it's making me nervous. Greg Jacobs, everybody on our crew that was so great. And, well, just a few other people. And, but really, the main person, well, Richard LaGravenese and Susannah Grant who wrote such a nice script. Steven Soderbergh, hi, there you are. You truly just made me want to be the best actor that I suppose I never knew I could be, or aspire to. And I made every attempt, stickman, I see you, so I thank you for really making me feel so, I love it up here! Yeah, anyway, I start working for him again in two days, so I can get to you later, but Benjamin Bratt, my sister Lisa, my brother-in-law Tony, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, who's been my agent since God was a boy, Jeff Berg, my mom, and just Frances and Marcus and Mike and everybody who's watching at home, Kelly, Emma, everybody. I love the world! I'm so happy! Thank you! Suddenly going to work tomorrow doesn't seem like such a good idea. My daughter Sarah's asleep in London. She's missing this, unfortunately. There are a lot of people to thank. Rather than thank some of them publicly, I think I'm going to thank all of them privately. What I want to say is, I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don't care if it's a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater, a piece of music, anybody -- anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us, I think this world would be unliveable without art, and I thank you. That includes the Academy, that includes my fellow nominees here tonight. Thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for this. It takes a lot of people to make a coliseum. But it only takes one or two to mess it up. To all the wizards who brought to life the sights, sounds, and citizens of a faraway world, we should take a chisel to this statue and give you your fair share, but instead I hope you will accept our thanks for not messing it up. David Franzoni, great dreaming. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, you swooped in on your chariot and ran over everything and everybody in your way. Ridley Scott, you invaded three continents with your tireless perfectionism, and brought -- and brought -- Ridley, and you brought new meaning to the phrase, "mad dogs and Engishman in the noonday sun." Bill Nicholson and John Logan, you saved our flank. Russell Crowe, you filled a whole arena with the force of your face and put the human back in the hero. Stacey Snyder, Ronnie Meyer, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, Terry Press, in those early days where it looked like all roads might lead not to Rome but to ruin, you were gladiators. Sarah, Julia, Tessa, Lucy, for me, all roads lead to you. Thanking all the same people Doug thanked, but to that gentleman genius Ridley Scott who transported us back thousands of years in time so effortlessly and beautifully. Thank you, Ridley. Russell, Joaquin, everyone, thank you so much. My wife, Nancy, my son Hudson, my dearly departed dad, who was the greatest storyteller who ever lived. I'm sure he's on high somewhere with Oliver Reed right now throwing back some of the dark stuff and enjoying the hell out of this. Thank you. Thank you to everybody who made this movie together with us. Thank you, Ridley. Thank you for the honor to work with you, and thanks to everybody in the international big crew all around the world to help us to do it. Strength and honor! I'm gonna speak very fast. I would like to thank Ang Lee for giving me this once in a lifetime chance. I must thank all my friends including Chui Po Chu, Zheng Quan Gang, Bill Kong, Phillip Lee, Wang Hui Ling, Fong Ping, Charles Wang, Tony [], Billy Ng, Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and his team, Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Cheng Pei Pei, Chang Chen, David Lee, Leo Lo, Manex, Deluxe Toronto, Leslie D'Brass, Christopher Severn, David Gersh, Melanie Ramseyer, my parents, my sisters, my mentor, Sun Yun Dat, for giving me spiritual guidance for over 15 years. My entire camera and lighting crew in Hong Kong and China, including -- Kenny Lam, Lee Tak Shing, Louis Jong, Jimmy Fok, Choi Sung Fai, Kai Tan Wei, Lam Chun Wan. It's a great honor to me to the people of Hong Kong and Chinese people all over the world. Thank you very much. Se se. Thank you, Academy. Thank you, Dreamworks. Thank you Walter Parkes, Branko Lustig, Terry Needham, a huge thank you to Ridley Scott for his vision and his incredible inspiration. But this doesn't belong to me alone. It belongs to a huge costume crew who worked so hard in Malta and Morocco and in the U.K. It belongs to the armor makers, it belongs to the costume makers, to the jewelry footwear creators, and the costume breakers. I couldn't have done it without these people, without Vanessa Jones, without my husband, Tony Dixon, without Jake Scott, and I couldn't have done it without Rosemary Burrows, Annie Hadly, and Sammy Howarth. Thank you. This is in honor of the kindertransport survivors who have inspired us with their honesty, and their eloquence, and their humanity, and for their parents who loved them so much, they had the courage to send them away. The film is in memory of my mother, who is one of the 10,000 children and my grandparents whom she never saw again. We'd like to thank everybody at Warner Brothers for their extraordinarily good faith, particularly Barry Meyer, Jerry Levin, and Bruce Rosenblum, as well as Dan Felman, and I'd like to thank my family, my friends, my colleagues, and my partner Bruce Helford. And I'd like to thank our wonderful team, particularly Kate Amend, Don Lenzer, Lee Holdridge, Gary Rydstrom, Dame Judi Dench, and my lovely wife. It's been a great privilege as a documentarian to share the pain and triumph of the people in our film. They've enriched all our lives. Thank you. Wow. Talk about beginner's luck. Thank you very much, members of the Academy. This is my first film, but I certainly didn't work with beginners. I thank the entire team of documentary people at HBO, Jeff Bewkes, Chris Albrecht, and, most especially, thank you Sheila Nevins. Also Geof Bartz, Julie Anderson. There are a few people who were with me from the very beginning, three years ago, Mitchell Block, Lisa Leeman, and my cinematographer Tamara Goldsworthy. I'm here because of my family and friends. Thank you. I wish I can name you all. Lastly, I want to dedicate this award to my film's subjects, Walter Dees and his grandmother, Viola, who died, unfortunately, in december of '91. I'm sure she would want, though, to share this award with the grandmothers like her who are struggling to raise a generation of children whose own parents abandoned them. Thanks very much, and thank you to all of those grandparents out there. Thank you. Wow. I would like to thank my family, the Academy, USA Films, our producers, Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Laura Bickford. My crew, Doug Crise, Keith Sauter, Norman Walker and Denise Marquez. I would like to thank Stephen Gaghan for writing such a beautiful and emotional script. And the entire cast and crew, who's outstanding achievements speak for itself. And Steven Soderbergh, it is a thrill to work with you. And it is a privilege to know you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Well, thank you, Academy, for this special recognition for non-English movies. My thanks to my fellow producers Hsu Li Kong, Bill Kong, and to an enormously talented cast and crew who sacrificed so much. To James Schamus, David Linde, Ted Hope, and everyone at Good Machine. And to Barbara Robinson at Columbia Asia, and Gareth Wigan at Sony. And to Tom Bernard, Michael Barker, and Marcy Bloom at Sony Classic for their masterpiece job. And finally, to my friends and family in Taiwan, to my collaborators in Hong Kong, and everyone, people in China who help us so much in making this movie. It was a great honor. Thank you. Thank you. We'd like to thank the Academy, Universal, Imagine, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for making such a creative film. The entire cast for their patience and cooperation. Jim Carrey for his brilliant performance. My crew. Over 150 talented people contributed greatly to the work that we accept this award for. I'm sorry I can't thank them all individually. But one I have to thank tonight is Kazuhiro Tsuji. Kazu not only applied Jim Carrey's Grinch makeup but designed many of the makeups and deserves to be here with us. Lastly, I like to thank the loves of my life, my beautiful wife Sylvia, my fantastic daughters Veronica and Rebecca, my late mother Doris, and my father Ralph. I would also like to thank my fabulous crew. A special thanks to Terry Baliel for his wonderful work. Tell my husband, I love him, and Laurel, I wish you were here. Thank you. I prepared something exactly 45 seconds. My music is to dream without boundaries. Tonight with you, I see boundaries being crossed. As a classical music composer, I'm thrilled to be honored here. CROUCHING TIGER bridged East and West, romance and action, high and low cultures. Thank you Ang Lee, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Gilb, Michael Goffein, James Schamus, Bill Kong, thank you Sony Classical, Cami, and G. Shirmer for their long support. Last, this is for two tigers in my family, my wife Jane, Ian, son, both born in the year of tigers. Thank you, Academy. If I made up a story where someone like me would find himself somewhere like this, nobody would believe it. Nobody here. I have to thank my girlfriend Michael, our son Gardner. I'd like to thank the Academy, my parents, Tom and Betty Hague of Louisville, Kentucky, who are somewhere up there in the balcony, I hope. I have to thank all the filmmakers. Steven Soderbergh, the director, who took every single thing I could give him and asked for more and inspired me. Producers Ed Zwick, Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz. I have something here that I have to make sure that I -- USA Pictures, Scott Greenstein, Russell Schwartz, and everybody in the cast and crew, and, most importantly, four years ago, a lot of people that reached out their hands to me and helped me out, and this is for you guys. Thanks. Oh, man. The movie was a love letter to music and to my family. So, I dedicate this to all the musicians who inspire us, and to my family, Alice Crowe, Cindy Webber, and Nancy Wilson, my incredible wife and collaborator. Thanks. Thank you, Dreamworks, Vinyl Films, Andy Fisher, Scott Martin, Lisa Stewart, Neil Preston, Danny Bramson, and this incredible cast and crew. Kate, you're magnificent. Frances, I couldn't dream of a greater way to live out the screenplay that is based on my hopes and dreams. So, also, it wouldn't be complete without saying hello to the master himself, Mr. Billy Wilder. So, here's to you, Audrey and Billy, and thank you so much, everybody. I would like to thank my two producers, Claire Jennings from London and Willem Thijssen from Amsterdam. And both for the dedication and very hard work. And I would like to thank especially my wife Arielle and for her support. Thank you, Academy members. This is fantastic. Good evening. I guess there are not so many great moments in your life, and this is definitely one of the greatest for me and therefore I want to thank the wonderful people who made this film with me. Some of them are here. Where are you? And I want to thank Mexico, where we shot the film, for being such a strange and hard to understand country with so much magic. I want to thank my film school and the film foundations who financed me. I hope they will also finance me in the future. And I want to thank all of you for this great honor. It's a really great moment for me. Thank you very much. Oh, good God, this is amazing. I've got to thank Curtis Hanson for encouraging me to do this song and everybody at Paramount, Sherry Lansing and Jonathan Dolgen. But especially Curtis, who just kept at it. And he said this song was right and just encouraged me to do it so much and I'm so glad I did. Everybody at Columbia Records, my record company, who supports me all through these years, Tommy Mottola, Donny Iner, Larry Jenkins, Will Botwin, John Igracias, everybody like that up here. I want to say hello to all of my family and friends out there watching. And I want to thank the members of the Academy who, who were bold enough to, to give me this award for this song, which obviously, a song that doesn't pussyfoot around nor turn a blind eye to human nature. And God bless you all with peace, tranquility, and good will. Thanks. Oh, wait. Clock's ticking, got this going. All right. First off, my thanks to the producers of U-571, Dino and Martha de Laurentiis, who make it exciting and an honor to be in this business. For the director, Jonathan Mostow, thank you for your loyalty, talent, and tenacity. For my whole crew, my deepest thanks. I would like to mention a few of them that I've tortured the longest, Miguel Rivera, Keith Bilderbeck, Val Kuklowsky, Bruce Stubblefield, Robert Troy, to the mixers Rick, Steve, Gregg, Ivan, you guys set the bar for the best mix I've ever been through. To my partner, chief antagonist, fiercest promoter, most loyal friend and my wife Jill. I love you forever and after. Kids, don't stay up tonight. We'll be out real late. Well, first of all, we'd like to dedicate this award to Ken Weston, the other member of our crew, who couldn't be here tonight. He's at home and we miss him. We'd also like to thank Ridley Scott for his vision and his generosity. We'd like to thank Dreamworks, Universal Pictures, of course, Walter Parkes, and Laurie MacDonald, Marty Cohen, and Lisa Dennis Kennedy. We're proud to congratulate Doug Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig for a truly great film, as well as our picture editor Pietro Scalia and composers Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. And everyone at Todd AO Studios. And a very special thanks to our supervising sound editor Per Hallberg and his great crew, and to our family, Cindy, Jessica, and Amy, and Mom and Dad. And Debra, Ashley, and Brandon. Thank you, the Academy. Thank you! Well -- thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank the members of the Academy, and I would also like to thank Steven Soderbergh, Laura Bickford, Ed Zwick, Marshall, Rick, and Eileen, everyone at USA Films, and I also like to dedicate this to two locations where we shot this film. We went from Washington, D.C. all the way to San Diego, California. I would like to dedicate this to the people of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico. Thank you. Thank you. What a thrill. Members of the Academy, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to even view the tape and consider our film. Ed Harris, thank you for inviting me to share your passion. You are a brave director and an even braver actor and I love you. 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. To Fred Berner, Peter Brant and Joe Allen, thank you for rearing this film and ushering it into the world, Sony Pictures Classics, and especially Michael Barker. To my family and my agents and Maryellen Mulcahy, without whom I would never be here. My lawyer, my husband Thaddaeus Scheel, all the people who help you in this crazy business, I want to thank you and for the inception of the film, James Trezza and Barbara Turner. Thank you. Wow! Thank you, members of the Academy for this great honor. First and foremost, I would like to thank our director Ridley Scott for his genius, vision, leadership and trust. I would like to thank all my team at Mill Film London, who did the visual effects. Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Laurent Huguenolt, Nikki Penny, Emma Norton, Nancy St. John, to Bill Schultz, a ton of other people I'm just forgetting right now. I would like to thank our great practical and prosthetics effect team with Paul and Neil Corbould, Trevor Wood, John Evans, Michelle Taylor and Dave Hunter. I would like to thank everyone at Dreamworks and Universal. They're a class act, a pleasure to work with. I would like to thank my wife Debra, my son Miles, my mom in heaven, my dad in and family in Detroit. Happy birthday, Dad, I love you.