2007 (80th) ACADEMY AWARDS
Award Category:  Actor in a Leading Role
Film Title:  There Will Be Blood
Winner(s):  Daniel Day-Lewis
Award Presenter(s):  Helen Mirren

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS:
That's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you.  My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town.

I'm looking at this gorgeous thing that you've given me and I'm thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since and it seems to me that this sprang like a golden sapling out of the mad, beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson.  I wish my son and my partner, HW Plainview, were up here with me, the mighty Dillon Freasier.  So many people to thank.  One amongst them would be Mrs. Plainview, down there, the enchantingly optimistic, open-minded and beautiful Rebecca Miller.  I hope that all those to whom I owe and to whom I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say just simply:  Thank you, Paul.

I've been thinking a lot about fathers and sons in the course of this, and I'd like to accept this in the memory of my grandfather, Michael Balcon; my father, Cecil Day Lewis; and my three fine boys, Gabriel, Ronan and Cashel.  Thank you very much indeed.  Thank you.

[Ed. note:  Presenter Helen Mirren, Best Actress winner the previous year for "The Queen," mimed knighting Mr. Day-Lewis with the Oscar statuette when he came on stage.]

----------------------------------

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Communications Department
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90211-1972
Phone (310) 247-3090
FAX (310) 271-3395
http://www.oscars.org
publicity@oscars.org

----------------------------------

These transcripts may not be reproduced except as brief quotes used in conjunction with news reporting about the 80th Academy Awards®. All content Copyright © Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

"Oscar®," "Oscars®," "Academy Awards®," "Academy Award®," "A.M.P.A.S.®" and "Oscar Night®" are the trademarks, and the ©Oscar® statuette is the registered design mark and copyrighted property, of the

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Additional information regarding the "Terms & Conditions of Use" and "Legal Regulations for Using Intellectual Properties of the Academy" may be accessed online at http://www.oscars.org/legal/

----------------------------------