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80th Academy Awards  

80th Academy Awards Nominees & Winners
 

Best Picture

  Leading Actor
  Supporting Actor
  Leading Actress
  Supporting Actress
  Animated Feature Film
  Art Direction
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  Costume Design
  Directing
  Documentary Feature
  Documentary Short
  Film Editing
  Foreign Language
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  Music (Score)
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  Short - Animated
  Short - Live Action
  Sound Editing
  Sound Mixing
  Visual Effects
  Adapted Screenplay
  Original Screenplay


Tilda Swinton
"Michael Clayton"

Acceptance Speech
Oh, no.  [To the statuette:] Happy birthday, man.  I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this, really truly the same shape head and, it has to be said, the buttocks.  And I'm giving this to him because there's no way I would be in America at all, ever on a plane, if it wasn't for him.  So, Brian Swardstrom, I'm giving this to you.

And Tony Gilroy walks on water, it's entirely official as far as I'm concerned.  And Jen Fox and Steve Samuels, our incredible producers, and Sydney Pollack.  And George Clooney, you know, the seriousness and the dedication to your art.  Seeing you climb into that rubber bat suit from "Batman & Robin," the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume, on the set, off the set, hanging upside-down at lunch. You rock, man.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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