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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
  Cinematography
  Costume Design
  Directing
  Documentary Feature
  Documentary Short
  Film Editing
  Foreign Language
  Makeup
  Music (Score)
  Music (Song)
  Short - Animated
  Short - Live Action
  Sound Editing
  Sound Mixing
  Visual Effects
  Adapted Screenplay
  Original Screenplay


Brad Bird
"Ratatouille"

Acceptance Speech
I think I'm gonna throw up, too.  I want to thank the Academy and I also want to thank my junior high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, "What do you want to do with your life?"  And I said, "I want to make movies."  And he said, "What else do you want to do with your life?"  And I said, "Make movies."  And he said, "What if you couldn't make movies?"  And I said, "I'd have to find a way that I could."  "What if movies didn't exist?"  "I'd have to invent them."  And it went on like this till we were sick of each other.  And I only realized just recently that he gave me the perfect training for the movie business.

So, I want to thank my wife Liz, who I love, my sons, all the dreamers at Pixar and Disney, John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull – Wrap it up; hate that thing.  Producer Brad Lewis, Jan Pinkava, and Dick Cook.  And all the dreamers who are supporting a rat who dreams.  Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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