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Year: 2011 (84th) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Film Title: The Descendants
Winner: Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Presenter: Angelina Jolie
Date & Venue: February 26, 2012; Hollywood & Highland Center
ALEXANDER PAYNE:
This is Jim, and this is Nat. I'm Alexander. We bow to our fellow nominees... [Jim Rash imitates presenter Angelina Jolie's pose when she was presenting.] Help, stop the counter... We bow to our fellow nominees. We want to thank Fox Searchlight and producer Jim Burke for all their good works. We share this with George Clooney and the rest of the cast for interpreting our screenplay so generously. And we also share it, in particular, with Kaui Hart Hemmings, our beautiful Hawaiian flower, for her novel. And on a brief personal note, if I may. My mother is here with me from Omaha and -- hold the applause -- and after watching the show a few years ago she made me promise that if I ever won another Oscar, I had to dedicate it to her just like Javier Bardem did with his mother. So, Mom, this one's for you. S'agapo poli. And thanks for letting me skip nursery school so we could go to the movies. Thanks a lot.
[Ed. note: Greek translation: "I love you very much."]
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Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash Academy Awards Acceptance Speech
