The Oscars Page #13

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"life of pi,."

"Lincoln,"

"silver linings playbook,"

"zero dark thirty. "

Mrs. Obama, do you have your envelope?

Not yet, Jack.

I'm about to.

Good.

And now for the moment we

have all been waiting for,

and the Oscar goes to...

"argo. "

Congratulations.

"Argo" has seven academy

award nominations this year

winning three oscars,

film editing, adaptive

screenplay and best picture.

I know you're thinking,

three sexiest producers alive.

I want to thank the academy.

This is... this is... God,

this is truly an honor.

There are literally thousands

of people to thank

so thankfully I'm not

going to thank them now.

I'm going to thank everybody

personally in the next few weeks,

but there are a couple of

people I want to acknowledge.

I want to acknowledge

my partner in crime

and my great friend, George clooney,

who...

everybody should be so lucky to have

a partner who is talented

and as humorous

and who has as much integrity

so thank you, George.

I want to thank my beautiful wife Lisa,

who... you make... you

make everything better.

And to our kids Maya and Olivia,

I love you guys.

Hope your old man is not

embarrassing you up here.

The reason I wanted to speak first...

I want to speak for Ben

was Ben is a producer on the film

and he is also our director

and I thought it would be awkward

for Ben to thank himself,

but it's not awkward for me.

So on behalf of George and myself

I want to thank you, Ben.

You directed a hell of a film.

Couldn't be more proud of the film,

couldn't be more proud of Ben

so, ladies and gentlemen,

our co-producer and the director of "argo,"

Ben affleck.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very, very much.

I know eventually that

thing will start to go.

Forgive me if this is quick.

I want to acknowledge Steven Spielberg,

is a genius

and a towering talent among us

and acknowledge the other eight films.

There are eight great films who

have as much a right to be up here.

Acknowledge them and thank

them for what they did

and many who didn't get

nominated this year.

I want to thank,

you know, I mean Jack and Marty

and my brother and mom and dad

and Patrick and Tony mendes

who let us do his story,

thank you and I just...

I'mgoer to thank everyone in the movie,

worked on the mchd, did anything

with this movie gets thanked.

Canada and our friends in Iran

living in a terrible circumstance right now

and my wife who I don't

normally associate with Iran,

but

I want to thank you for

working on our marriage for

you know, ten... it's good.

It has worked but it's

the best kind of work.

There's no one I'd rather work with.

And I just want to say,

you know, I was here 15

years ago or something,

and, you know, I had no

idea what I was doing.

Stood out here in front of you.

Really just a kid

and I went out, you know, and I never

thought that I would be back here

and I am,

because so many of you are here tonight

because of this academy

because of so many wonderful people

who extended themselves to me

when they had nothing to

benefit from it in Hollywood.

You know what I mean?

I couldn't get them a job.

I want to thank them

and I want to thank what they taught me

which is you have to work harder than

you think you possibly can,

can't hold grudges,

it's hard but you can't hold grudges.

And it doesn't matter

how you get knocked down in life

because that's going to happen.

All that matters is you got to get up.

I love you.

Yes!

All right, folks.

We hopeveryone had a

great time this evening.

I certainly did.

We'll be back in a moment

to say a proper good night

but first here's who's paying for all this

there are a lot of winners

and plenty of you disappointed and upset

so we want to kind of cheer you up here

so she opened the red carpet show

and now she'll close with me

because you're all sick

to death of this guy.

The lovely Kristin chenoweth.

How are you?

Good.

We just want to say here's to the losers.

Yes, the losers.

"Argo. "

- "Argo. "

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- We love that "argo. "

- We do.

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- It's a long one.

# here's to all the losing works of art #

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