I have a strange fascination with these; sometimes I spend hours watching them on YouTube. Let's talk about them.
[b]Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Ghost, 1991[b]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9kDwdxVlEw
Has there ever been such an enthusiastic and unreserved reaction shot/acceptance speech? It's so human and unprofessional in the most endearing way. Also she's said several times since that she was totally stoned out of her gourd.
― queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:39 (eleven years ago)
Merritt Wever, Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Nurse Jackie, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9IElXFy-bs
Apparently the shortest Emmy speech of all time, consisting of a gloriously stunned "Umm... I gotta go, bye" that pretty much affirms why she won the Emmy in the first place.
― queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)
My favorite thing about Wever's instant classic speech is how she repeats "Thank you so much" twice in the exact same facetious tone.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:47 (eleven years ago)
joe pesci's oscar acceptance speech:
"It's my privilege. Thank you."
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 4 January 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)
This was pretty great under difficult circumstances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlxvt8eJEDE
I was watching that night...only 9, though, so I'm guessing the context was lost on me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 January 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)
what were the difficult circumstances?
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 4 January 2014 23:04 (eleven years ago)
Those were her radical days. (Or, as I suppose Godard would say, her pseudo-radical days.) She went to Hanoi in '72 and made anti-war radio broadcasts--after the award, but she was already a vociferous anti-war critic. The Awards, meanwhile, were still mostly old-guard in '71, I think (though starting to make the transition). Her win came a year after George C. Scott's refusal (hence Matthau), so I suspect most everyone in the audience took a deep breath and braced themselves for something like what they got from Bert Schneider a few years later.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 January 2014 23:16 (eleven years ago)
ah, of course. cheers.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 4 January 2014 23:52 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zjm79Esq4
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:25 (eleven years ago)
Jon Voight votes for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSgvp0l1n2s
(Most unctuous cutaway ever...)
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:36 (eleven years ago)
this is a classic IMO. he starts with a gag, makes a very valid heartfelt point, is respectful to his fellow nominees, briefly mentions his kids without gushing, gets a big round of applause mid-speech (kinda rare at the Oscars) and nails it all in under a minute. a class act all-round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK5slvV7Lbw
― piscesx, Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:17 (eleven years ago)
also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Pl-qvA1X8
― piscesx, Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:42 (eleven years ago)
Patty Duke, accepting Emmy, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcUYBKDADLE
― Josefa, Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:51 (eleven years ago)
just checked her wiki, no comment now
― k3vin k., Sunday, 5 January 2014 01:56 (eleven years ago)
Oh man. Never saw that until now. The turn from the podium at the end is like the entirety of Jodie Foster's GG speech from last year distilled into one 2-second gesture.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 January 2014 03:02 (eleven years ago)
I don't care that he probably rehearsed this one for a month or that it became the impetus for In & Out, this is the ne plus ultra of what acceptance speeches ought to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuDMEpUc8k
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 January 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)