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Could you double-check the envelope?
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Martin Scorsese cannot quite believe that he has won best director at the sixth attempt
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If it isn't his year, I will have to eat someone's hat
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Jodie Foster, on the red carpet, keeping her fingers crossed for Scorsese
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No one knows who's going to win, unless you're British, and then you know you have a good shot
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Host Ellen DeGeneres welcomes the UK contingent in her opening monologue
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For 50 years and more, Elizabeth Windsor has maintained her dignity, her sense of duty and her hairstyle. She's had her feet planted firmly on the ground, her hat on her head, her
handbag on her arm and she has weathered many, many storms
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Dame Helen Mirren on the Queen she portrayed in the film of the same name
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in. It wasn't my reality to think I would be acting in movies - so receiving this honour tonight tells me that it's possible
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Best actor Forest Whitaker
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Eighth nomination, is that right? You know what they say: 'Third time's a charm.'
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DeGeneres to best actor hopeful Peter O'Toole - who lost out to Whitaker
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More than anything, I'm deeply moved by the open-hearted appreciation our small film has received, which in these fragmented times speaks so openly of the possibility of innocence
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Best supporting actor Alan Arkin on the reaction to Little Miss Sunshine
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When I was a kid, my family drove 600 miles in a VW bus with a broken clutch. It ended up being one of the funnest things we did together
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First-time screenwriter Michael Arndt on the road-trip which inspired Little Miss Sunshine
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She was my biggest inspiration for everything, because she was a singer and she had the passion for it, but she never had the chance - and that was the thing that pushed me forward to continue
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Best supporting actress Jennifer Hudson pays tribute to her late grandmother
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The movie that made me want to be a screenwriter was Robert Bolt's Lawrence of Arabia... I don't know what happened in the universe to end up in the same audience as Peter O'Toole
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William Monahan, who won best adapted screenplay for The Departed
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People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue. It's a moral issue
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Al Gore, as his environmental film An Inconvenient Truth won best documentary feature
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I asked my kids, 'What should I say?' They said, 'Thank all the men for wearing penguin suits.'
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Director George Miller, winner of the Oscar for Happy Feet, the tale of penguins which was named best animated film
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I should have worn my glasses
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Clint Eastwood, after fluffing his lines while introducing the honorary award to Ennio Morricone
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