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Best Oscar Acceptance Speech

Feb 29, 2004 12:47PM PST

Hi, All.

Unfortunately, I didn't catch who it was or which (small) category, but the speech started "we'd like to thank the Academy for not including 'The Lord of the Rings' in our category this year!"

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It's official -- ROTK gets 11 Oscars, in all nominated categories...
Feb 29, 2004 1:17PM PST

... tying "Ben Hur" and "Titanic" for most Oscars.

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Re:they stole that line :-(
Feb 29, 2004 2:31PM PST

it was used (if i recall correctly) the year that "schindlers list" swept the board...

something like "thank god schindlers didn't have a theme song"

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Re: they stole that line :-(
Feb 29, 2004 10:03PM PST

Hi, Jonah.

The thought's the same, but I think the delivery here was better, as it started with the ritualistic opening nod to the Academy...

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It will be interesting to see
Mar 1, 2004 1:21PM PST

how Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" fares at the Oscars next year.

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Re:Best Oscar Acceptance Speech (for best foreign language film.)
Mar 2, 2004 3:58AM PST

At times Jackson's film threatened to turn the other nominees into impotent bystanders. "We are so pleased that Lord of the Rings was not nominated in this category," joked the producer of The Barbarian Invasions, which won the Oscar for best foreign language film.