00:00With this cast and this crew and Paul has already been the greatest filmmaking
00:08experience I can fathom so receiving this award is just beyond. My heart is
00:13exploding with gratitude. Thank you. Thank you to Mikey. I mean Mike and Pammy at
00:19Warner Brothers. Thank you to Brian Lord. Thank you to my producing partners Adam
00:25Sumner. Will Weiske. Erica Frauman. I share this with you. Thank you to my family.
00:32All four of my parents. My beautiful brothers. Fanny. Josh. Ryan. I love you.
00:39I'm grateful for you. Pauli. Okay. I just want to say that in 1975 the Oscar
00:45nominees for Best Picture were Dog Day Afternoon. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
00:51Jaws. Nashville and Barry Lyndon. There is no best among them. There is just what their
00:57mood might be that day. But we're happy to be part of this. A wonderful wonderful
01:03journey with our fellow nominees our fellow filmmakers our fellow filmmakers
01:07that even weren't recognized by the Academy. There's so many great films this
01:11year and I really blew it when I won a Best Director award and I forgot to thank
01:16my cast. With Leo, Benicio, Tiana, Shawn, Regina and especially Chase. My American
01:25girl Chase. You are the heart of this movie. This entire team. What a night. You guys
01:31let's have a martini. This is pretty amazing. Cheers. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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