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Year: 2000 (73rd) Academy Awards

Category: Actress in a Supporting Role

Film Title: Pollock

Winner: Marcia Gay Harden

Presenter: Nicolas Cage

Date & Venue: March 25, 2001; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center

MARCIA GAY HARDEN:
Thank you. What a thrill. Members of the Academy, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to even view the tape and consider our film. Ed Harris, thank you for inviting me to share your passion. You are a brave director and an even braver actor and I love you. Dad, who's here tonight, thank you for teaching me how to soldier through tough situations, and Mom, for teaching me how to do it gracefully. To Fred Berner, Peter Brant and Joe Allen, thank you for rearing this film and for ushering it into the world. Sony Pictures Classics and especially Michael Barker. To my family and my agents and Maryellen Mulcahy, without whom I would never be here. My lawyer. My husband Thaddaeus Scheel. All the people who help you in this crazy business, I want to thank you. And for the inception of the film, James Trezza and Barbara Turner. Thank you.

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