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Year: 1987 (60th) Academy Awards

Category: Actress in a Leading Role

Film Title: Moonstruck

Winner: Cher

Presenter: Paul Newman

Date & Venue: April 11, 1988; Shrine Civic Auditorium


CHER:
Now I want to really, I want to really say something. [Laughs.] When I was little my mother said, "I want you to be something." And I guess this represents twenty-three or twenty-four years of my work, and I've never won anything before from my peers. I'm really, really happy. I'd like to thank everyone I worked on with the movie [sic]. They were really fabulous. It was really a great experience for me. My makeup man, who had a lot to work with; my hairdresser; my assistant; my children, who've been so wonderful. The lady who taught me how to speak in this Brooklyn accent.

And I would like to thank the women that I was nominated along with, because I feel really, really good because they were so great. And I would also like to thank Mary Louise Streep, who I feel so unbelievable that I did my first movie with her and now I was nominated with her, and I feel really thankful. And I don't think that this means that I am somebody, but I guess I'm on my way. Thank you.

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