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February 15, 2007
acceptance speeches
A while ago I wondered whether I could find a corpus of oscar acceptance speeches and was disappointed how few have been uploaded. The numbers are increasing now although there are still some classics I can't find, like Sally Field ('you like me!') or Sasheen Littlefeather/Marlon Brando and tragically the Academy have realised the value of Billy Crystal's introduction in 2002 so that's been taken down.
But for a real contrast, have a look at Halle Berry's acceptance in 2002 (I don't know what exactly this says about me but it makes me cry every time and I get a bit upset whenever people make fun of her):
and then compare it to Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky at Cannes in 1983:
B-)
Posted by Billy at February 15, 2007 8:21 PM
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