00:00Wow. Hello, everybody. Wow. I used to live in an apartment just behind here. I was just
00:17telling Joe and Anthony that it was like $1,000 a month, and after my first, last, and deposit,
00:26I remember thinking to myself, I am financially ruined. And I would walk up and down Hollywood
00:33Boulevard, and wow, it was 20-something years ago. Anyways, here we are. This is a really
00:40exciting day. Thank you all for being here. We're obviously here to honor and witness
00:46as Joe and Anthony Russo literally leave their fingerprints on Hollywood. Unreal. Now, this
00:56is something they have figuratively been doing for years. As you heard before, all the numbers,
01:02I won't rehash them, but they're a lot. There's lots of box office, and not just box office,
01:08but also television and streaming. I really can't think of anyone more deserving of this
01:13special honor than the Russo brothers. They're really known for their family-style approach
01:21to filmmaking. I mean, not only working literally with members of their family, but really fostering
01:30a sense of trust and collaboration amongst their cast and their crew and their teams,
01:39a special closeness. It's intimate. It feels familial. Where are they, by the way? I'm looking,
01:45oh, right there in the front. That makes sense. When you're with the Russo brothers,
01:50you're with family, like Olive Garden. But even better, somehow, instead of endless breadsticks
02:04and salad, it's endless visual effects and number one openings. Their success, though,
02:17is not just commercial. As you know, Agbo produced Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
02:23Extraordinary. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once won 42 million Oscars. It's never been
02:35done before. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, if that was not already a movie that you guys
02:42made, it could be a movie about you and what you're doing, because you're doing everything,
02:47everywhere, all at once. On a serious note, one day aliens will come down. We'll be gone. We'll
03:00be dust, probably from the space lasers. And what will remain is these handprints in concrete.
03:08Legends like Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino. I believe Whoopi
03:22Goldberg put her dreadlocks in some cement around here somewhere. And now the Russo brothers. It's
03:30this pretty special, special honor. I'm grateful to have been a part of their journey. The fellow
03:38before me mentioned that we did Avengers. We're about to go tour the world with our next film,
03:44their next film, The Electric State. I'm hopeful that you'll continue to include me in this journey
03:52of yours. I know you have a tendency to work with some of the same talent, both in front of and
03:57behind the camera. And I just want to say to any young filmmaker out there who happens to see this,
04:04they're here now, or I see cameras, maybe someone's filming it and you're watching it
04:07online or something. Take note and follow their lead. They're nice guys. They're not monsters.
04:18You don't have to bully your way into getting what you want. They've built long-term creative
04:24partnerships with writers, producers, cinematographers, various other heads of
04:29departments. And that's led to their success. They're generals with a 50,000-foot view of the
04:38various campaigns they're waging. It's their openness that's driven them to this excellence.
04:44And at the end of the day, they have not only an incredible body of work, but they have those
04:52relationships they've fostered to carry them into their lives. And handprints outside of Man's
04:58Chinese Theater here in a moment. Anthony's wonderful wife, Anne. We've got Joe's... Yes,
05:06please. Joe's darling wife, Alicia. Their three children, Sophia, Basil, and Leah. Agbo is a
05:24family affair. Angela, who is their chief creative officer, is here. Sophia also works
05:32there. They're hiring all... I don't know what's up with the other kids. They're not there yet,
05:36I guess. We've got Basil and Patricia here, of course, the matriarch and patriarch of this
05:43wonderful Russo family. You must be so proud. And then there's me. I'm sort of this adopted
05:48pseudo-brother-uncle Star-Lord. So from all of us, from our family to yours, we're really proud
05:59of you. And I'm going to invite you up to say some words. But like I say every day when I
06:06walk onto one of your sets, it's showtime, motherfucker.
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