I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag. Oh my god. Thank you. Thank you, really. Oh my goodness. It doesn't come out in slow motion, but it doesn't really ring a bell. The name . I didn't know my name. This Adrien? Okay. I haven't really written a speech because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things I didn't win. But, you know, there comes a time in life when everything seems to make sense and this is not one of those times. What I do know though is that I've never felt this much love and encouragement from my peers and from people I admire and from complete strangers. And it means a great deal to me. And if it weren't for the insomnia and the sudden panic attacks, this has been an amazing, amazing journey. I have to thank . they're already flashing time's up. I have to thank my mother and father, most importantly, for all the creativity and encouragement and they've been just real strength. They've given me a great deal of strength. What can I say? This film would not be possible without the blue print provided by Wladyslaw Szpilman. This is a tribute to his survival. I'd like to thank Roman Polanski for the role of a lifetime. And for those of you who have seen the film and have sat through the credits, you know there are too many people to thank individually. I would not be there without all their efforts. And I thank them. And everyone worked extremely hard to make this film. And I have to thank Focus Features for getting us out there. To my longtime friend, manager, agent, consigliare Joanne Colonna everybody at the firm, PMK/HBH. And you know, wait one second. One second, please one second. Cut it out, cut it out. I get one shot at this. I'm sorry. I didn't say more than five names, I don't think, but. This is, you know, it fills me with great joy, but I am also filled with a lot of sadness tonight because I am accepting an award at such a strange time. And you know my experiences of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and the dehumanization of people at times of war. And the repercussions of war. And whatever you believe in, if it's God or Allah, may he watch over you and let's pray for a peaceful and swift resolution. Thank you. And I have a friend from Queens who's a soldier in Kuwait right now, Tommy Zarabinski, and I hope you and your boys make it back real soon. God bless you guys. I love you. Thank you very much. Take this in for one second. From the Academy to the womb that bore me, thank you. To all the nominees, it's a pleasure to be thought in your same company. To all the people in "Adaptation" who helped to make this the most enjoyable job I ever had, thank you. Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Nicolas Cage, the fabulous beautiful wonderful Meryl Streep. Working with this woman was like making great jazz. You had a lot to do with this, so I thank you. To my wife, Marianne, you took on all the burden, thank you. And in light of all the troubles in this world, I wish us all peace. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yes. Now I have to think. David Hare, I need your words. I have such appreciation and gratitude for this. Russell Crowe said, "Don't cry if you get up there." And now I'm crying. Sorry. Stephen Daldry, you took a huge chance on me. I am so grateful. David Hare, you gave me magnificent words to say. Scott Rudin, you fought so hard for this film to get it made. Paramount and Miramax, you made it. And Kevin Huvane, Rick Nicita, Marc Epstein stood by me for so many years. And I am just absolutely thrilled to be standing up here tonight. I do have to say, it was "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil?" Because art is important. And because you believe in what you do. And you want to honor that. And it is a tradition that needs to be upheld. At the same time you say there is a lot of problems in the world and since 9/11 there's been a lot of pain, in terms of families losing people, and now with the war, families losing people. And God bless them. And I am standing here in front of my mother and my daughter and my whole life I've wanted to make my mother proud. And now I want to make my daughter proud. So thank you. Thank you so much my Scotsman giving the Welsh here, I can't believe it. Oh my gosh. This is too . I mean, my hormones are just too way out of control to be dealing with this. But, thank you so much, the Academy. To be nominated with such amazing women and an amazing year for women. Thank you very much. Everyone involved in "Chicago". There's so many people involved. Rob Marshall, Harvey Weinstein, Craig, Neil and everybody, all the cast and crew. Everybody in Swansea, South Wales, I love you. And to my son Dylan who is going to be watching at home. And to my husband, who I love and I share this award with you, along with this one, too. Thank you so much. Well, this is just fantastic and as you can see, we made so many wonderful friends on CHICAGO. It was just one of the best experiences we ever had. It really came down to Rob Marshall, our director. Rob, thank you for bringing us along on this amazing journey. We have to thank our crews, everyone in the art department, set decoration department, construction, paint props. It was a huge collaborative effort and we share this with all of you. I just want to thank John Myhre so much . He is a wonderful creative man to work with. It was just so thrilling. If we can thank our family and friends who are watching all over the world. Thank you very much. Cheers. Oh, my God. I know that to breathe is very expensive tonight, but I have to breathe. Well, first of all, thank you to the members of the Academy, for their generosity. This is, I mean, I don't know, this is really too much. And I would like to read something that is prohibited, but will be very short. You know, of course I dedicate this to El Deseo, to Sony Pictures Classic and all the people that helped me to make this movie. But I also want to dedicate this award to all the people that are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality. All of which are essential qualities to live. This award is also to them and to Spanish cinema and to all of you, because you are the witness of this wonderful moment of my life. Time's up. I'm sorry. Couple of months ago this industry lost one of its legends. Many of you lost a great friend and collaborator. And I lost my father. It's been said that God gives each and every one of us the gift of life and what we do with that life is our gift back to him. I can't think of a better gift than my father. Dad, wherever you are, you will be gone, but you'll never be forgotten. Thank you. Oh my. "Chicago" began for me when I walked into a room of mirrors and watched Rob Marshall and three choreographers dance the entire show. It was a powerful inspiration and continued to be as the collaboration expanded. Sets, camera, stage lighting, an amazing cast who sang and danced, dancers and my collaborators Dale, Karen, Christine, all led by Bill Condon's script and Rob's clarity and heart. Thanks to you all and to Miramax and Marty Richards, who let it all happen. Thank you. Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to . they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much. You did it Joe. On September 11th, Detective Joseph Vigiano and his brother John made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. You all have honored them with this trophy. Thank you, Maury Povich, for everything. Thank you, Peter Jankowski, for your vision. Thank you, Alan Berger, for your guidance. And to my wife Lisa and son Dylan, thank you for your love and support. I'd also like to thank some of the others who helped make this film. Dick Wolf, Lisa and Charles Engel, Dan Sturman, Kate Adler, Phil Marshall, Michael Schweitzer. No matter where you're from, we're all New Yorkers. Thank you very much. Whoa. Hi. Small corner of northern England just went boom. I'd like to thank Rob Marshall, for your vision. Thank you. Bill Condon, for a fabulous script. Harvey, Meryl, Julie, Jen. Everybody at Miramax. And my gang, my own personal gang of New York in New York. That's another little corner that just exploded. And my family, my wife Beth, my boys James and Max up there on the second tier. Where are you? Yeah. Hi! Have a great night. Thanks a lot. Bye. Wow. Thank you, the Academy. This is indeed a mind blowing experience. We like it. Thank you to Salma. None of us would have been there without you. May your salary on the next one be bigger than the entire budget on this one. Alfred Molina. For being our champion. Julie Taymor for her vision. And her incredible ability to convey it. Judy Chin, our department market head, who should have been up with us tonight. Without your work, Judy, we wouldn't even be here tonight. None of us expected to be nominated or to even get all this recognition for our work. For all of our sweat and tears, we just wanted to give Salma her dream. And then we fell in love. Thank you. Wow. To be around such remarkable women, Julie Taymor, Salma Hayek, Sarah Green, Margy Perenchio. Thank you Miramax. But what I really want to say, and I'll do it quickly, is I want to dedicate this award to the bridges that we try to build, to the people of Mexico, to the artistic tradition and legacy of personal and political art. For you, Mexico. Oh my. This all goes to Marshall. I'm privileged, grateful to be involved with the song, along with my co-writers and friends, Jeff Bass, Marshall Mathers, who couldn't be here. It's a great thing working with Marshall day in, day out. He's creative. He has symphonies in his head that I'm privileged to put on the tape. He's a good man, good heart. Here's to you, Marshall. Thank you so much. I love you, Colleen, Kyle, Olivia, everybody. Thank you. Oh, God. Oh, my God! This has been a very long trip. Mom and Dad, look where I'm standing. Oh my God. It started with the great Bob Fosse and an incredible score by Kander Ebb and then Harvey Weinstein came in with Meryl Poster and they stood by and they believed and they just stayed with me. And here I am. And, oh my God my mind is going. It truly is going. A cast that any producer would die for. A director that was sent from heaven, a blessing. Rob Marshall. The most incredible, unbelievable, creative and productive staff. Oh, God. Richard, Ren e, Catherine, John, the world, I think right now. Bob Fosse, yes! He was the first I mentioned. And Queen Latifah and my executive producers, my executive producers, my executive producers, please. Neil Meron, Craig Zadan, who worked like dogs on this. And, God, I'm forgetting someone. I am. Oh, yes! Oh, yes! I was gonna end it with, I was gonna end it with thank you. I was gonna end it with one thing . I couldn't end it without this. To my two angels that sit on my shoulder all the time, my dear Mary Lea and my late partner Robert Fryer. I bless you all. I bless you all. Thank you. Wow. I'm going to try real hard not to pass out here. On behalf of Jacquie Barnbrook, our producer, and the entire ChubbChubbs! crew, I'd like to thank Yair Landau and Tim Sarnoff because without them, this film wouldn't have happened. I'd like to thank everybody at Sony pictures, Sony Pictures Animation and especially Sony Pictures Imageworks. If anyone's done this kind of stuff before, you know it's about the team, it's not about the individual and I had the best team out there. Last, I'd like to thank my beautiful wife, Penny. Thanks for putting up with the long hours. Thank you. Wow. Steve Martin, one word of advice. Lay off the onions. Well, this is a great honor. We brought our scriptwriter because without a great script, you cannot make a great film. So, first of all we want to thank the Short Fiction Film of Denmark. It's a great idea. Too bad it's shutdown. And M & M Productions of Denmark. Thanks for supporting, thanks for choosing. Crew and cast, great talent. I love you. And everybody at home, our friends, our loved ones, we couldn't make it without you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, being a third generation sound man, I knew at a young age what I wanted to do in my life. When I saw WEST SIDE STORY for the first time when I was really young, I thought to myself, that's a goal. I want to work on a picture like that, a magnificent musical. So Harvey Weinstein, thank you very much for that. And not to be redundant, but, Rob, you're fantastic and thank you very much for everything. Peggy, I'd like to say I love you, honey. I wish you were here with me. But I know you're right there in Toronto at Erdemeyer's having a wonderful time. Don Carmody, I wish there were more producers like you. And to my boom man and my crew, Denis Bellingham and Jason McFarling, I love you, too. Love you, Molly. Love you, girl. With so much insanity in the world right now, we feel particularly blessed to work with such a tight-knit and talented group of people in Wellington, New Zealand. They've all poured their heart and soul into making this movie and have become a family in that process. And we share this award with all of you, and we want to thank a few of you. Yes, I'd like to thank Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for this amazing vision they have. We want to thank Barrie Osborne and Mark Ordesky for your tenacity. We'd like to thank Chris Ward and Rose Dority for their unflagging support of us right way through. David Farmer, Brent Burge, Jason Canovas, David Whitehead, Chris Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges. Thank you all. We wouldn't be here without you. [ I just want to say thank you to J. R. R. Tolkien who wrote it; Peter Jackson who directed it; New Line who supported it; my wife and family, Theresa, Sara and Jackson, who supported me and the amazing artists at Weta Digital in New Zealand. Here it is. We wanted to weave a tapestry of heightened reality with the visual effects on LORD OF THE RINGS and a tribute has to go to Alex Funke, DOP of the miniatures department, Carla Fry who was there with us from the beginning. The wonderful people at the Weta Workshop, Mary Machlachlan, John Baster, Jason Docherty and Gino Acevedo for their work with the creatures. And all of my good friends back at home and especially my partner Tania. I send my love to you. ] When I was last year here 20 years ago . I'm not making a habit of it, don't worry. Shirley Maclaine got Best Actress. When she got the statue, she said, "I deserve this." Well, I wish I could say that, but I can't. Roman Polanski deserves this. He's a great director and a wonderful colleague. And I want to thank him and, of course, you for this splendid honor. Thank you very much indeed.