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Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman
"Crash" |
Acceptance Speech
Cathy: Thank you. Oh, my gosh. Oh, thank you so, so much. What an amazing night. Thank you to all of the members of the Academy for embracing.
Paul: Can you mention them by name? Every single one.
Cathy: For embracing our film, about love and about tolerance, about truth. Thank you to the people all around the world who have been touched by this message. And we are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking, and stunning, maverick years in American cinema, thank you.
We'd like to thank Lions Gate. Boy, did you do a job. Jon Feltheimer, and everyone in every office of that building, and we would not be here today if it were not for Tom Ortenberg, and for Sarah Greenberg, thank you. Thank you also to our financiers Andy Reimer, Jan Korbelin, Marina Grasic, Bob Yari. To our producers, our partners, Mark Harris, and Bob Yari, and Don Cheadle, and Bobby Moresco. Thank you. Don Cheadle, our partner, we wish he could be here with us tonight. Thank you everybody. Thank you to my husband, to my wife, to all of our families.
Special Online Thanks
We would like to thank everyone who believed in us when no one else did.
Larry Becsey
Rick Nicita, Byrdie Lifson and Risa Gertner at CAA
Fellow producers Mark Harris, Don Cheadle, Bobby Moresco, Bob Yari and Cathy Schulman.
Our incredible cast -- just too ***ing many of them to list, see the movie! But I want to thank every one of them for putting their trust in me.
Our DP Jimmy Muro and his crew.
Our Production Designer, Larry Bennett and his talented people.
Mark Isham for his magnificent score.
My assistant director Scott and his great seconds -- Mark and Sandy and all our fabulous post production people.
Every single person who worked to make this movie a success. And of course Tom Ortenberg, Jon Feltheimer, Michael Burns, Sarah and Tim and everyone at Lionsgate, for doing such an amazing job releasing and supporting our film.
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