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Year: 1976 (49th) Academy Awards
Category: Actress in a Supporting Role
Film Title: Network
Winner: Beatrice Straight
Presenter: Sylvester Stallone, Muhammad Ali
Date & Venue: March 28, 1977; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
BEATRICE STRAIGHT:
It's very heavy. And I'm the dark horse. And thank you so much, all of you. It's a great, great thrill for me and very unexpected. Though I should have known that when I had someone like Paddy Chayefsky writing and saying things that we all feel but can't express, and when we have someone like Sidney Lumet who makes one want to act forever, and a producer like Howard Gottfried, then how can I miss? But I know that my mother would be delighted. She had great potential for an actress but didn't think she should do it, so she pushed me and was delighted. And Michael Chekhov, the great actor and teacher who I studied with, who gave me a love and respect for the theater, which is the whole point of why we're all here. It's a great profession and we have to keep thinking it all the time. And we all do. And we all love it. And I'm so grateful for that and for a wonderful lady, age ninety-three, who lives here in Los Angeles, who's watching tonight. One of our first women directors, who directed Paul Robeson in "Othello" in London: Ellen van Volkenburg Browne. Bright as ever. Thank you. And last but not least, my husband, who's put up with me for twenty-eight years. Thank you so, so much.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
