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Year: 2008 (81st) Academy Awards
Category: Actress in a Supporting Role
Film Title: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Winner: Penélope Cruz
Presenter: Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Eva Marie Saint, Tilda Swinton
Date & Venue: February 22, 2009; Kodak Theatre
PENÉLOPE CRUZ:
This is not going to be forty-five seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one.
Thank you so much to the Academy. I want to share this with my fellow nominees and with the amazing ensemble of actors that I had the privilege to work with in this movie. Thank you, Woody, for trusting me with this beautiful character. Thank you for having written over all these years some of the greatest characters for women. And I cannot talk about great female characters without thanking my friend Pedro Almodóvar for having made me part of so many of his adventures. Thank you, Bigas Luna, Fernando Trueba, for giving me my first two movies. Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. I want to dedicate this to my parents and to my brother and sister, to my friend Robert Garlock, who is not with us anymore, and to everyone who has helped me from the beginning, and you know who you are, and I thank you from my heart.
I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always the night of the Academy Awards I stay up to watch the show. And I always felt that this was, that this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world, because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can to protect its survival. So I thank you so much and I have to say something in Spanish, because everyone: [A] todos los que desde España ahora estén compartiendo este momento conmigo y sientan que esto también es de ellos, se los dedico. Y a todos los actores de mi país. Muchisimas gracias. Thank you so much.
[Ed. note: Spanish translation: "To everyone in Spain right now who might be sharing this moment with me and feel that this too is theirs, I dedicate it to you, and to all the actors of my country. Thank you very much."]
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
