- Al Pacino: Well, this is the time, uh, for the last award of the evening. And it's, uh, uh, my honor to present it. Uh, ten wonderful films, uh, were nominated, but only one will take home the award for best picture. And, uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will...
- [Pacino starts to open the envelope]
- Al Pacino: Here it comes.
- [Scattered laughing, Pacino opens the envelope]
- Al Pacino: And my eyes see Oppenheimer!
- [Confused and scattered applause]
- Al Pacino: Yes!
- [the orchestra enters after a beat]
- Al Pacino: Yes! Emma Thomas, Charles Roven... What happened?
- [Applause grows as the camera rushes over to the Oppenheimer crew getting up from their seats. The rest of the audience stands up as well.]
- Al Pacino: Wow. Oh wow.
- John Mulaney: Without sound, we wouldn't have been able to hear such classic lines as "You're gonna need a bigger boat", "I'll have what she's having", and "He was in the amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died".
- Self - Winner: Thank you. There are so many people who've dragged me up here. Universal Studios, Donna Langley, thank you for seeing the potential in this. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, thank you for the 25 years you put into the book that this film is based on. I have so many people to thank. The most incredible cast: Matt Damon, Robert, Emily, Florence, so many others, all at the top of their game, led by the incredible Cillian Murphy. A crew, some of whom have been rewarded tonight. I can't say enough about the incredible crew that we got together on this film. Thank you to Chuck Roven for putting the book in my hands. And thank you for those who've been there for me and believed in me my whole career: Dan; Michael; my brother, Jonah; my family; and the incredible Emma Thomas, producer of all our films and all our children, I love you. And to the Academy, just to say, movies are just a little bit over a hundred years old. I mean, imagine being there a hundred years into painting or theater. We don't know where this incredible journey is going from here, but to know that you think that I'm a meaningful part of it means the world to me. Thank you very much.
- Jonathan Glazer: All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, 'Look what they did then,' rather 'Look what we do now.' Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization - how do we resist?
- Self - Winner: I'm a little overwhelmed. Thank you to the Academy. Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, it's been the wildest, most exhilarating, most creatively satisfying journey you've taken me on over the last twenty years. I owe you more than I can say. Thank you so much. Every single crew member, every single cast member on "Oppenheimer," you guys carried me through. All my fellow nominees, I remain in awe of you guys. Truly. And I want to thank my incredible team. A big shout-out to Craig Bankey, Brendan Murphy, Mary Murphy. Yvonne McGuinness, my partner in life and art. My two boys, Malachy and Aran, who are sitting up there. I love you so much. And I'm a very proud Irish man standing here tonight, so... . You know, we made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse we're all living in Oppenheimer's world. So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere. Go raibh míle maith agat.
- [Gaelic translation: "Thanks a million."]
- Self - Winner: Wow. Thank you, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, for inviting me on this incredible world. Christopher Nolan is, your idea to use a violin in the score, and it allowed me to work and collaborate with my wonderful wife and acclaimed violinist, Serena Göransson. We had a rerecording at night and we were rushing to go home and put our kids, Apollo and Romeo, down to bed. But the result of that was amazing, and it really set a really nice tone for the film of that performance. Tereza Stanislav, Jake Braun, Chris Fogel, Anthony Parnther, Alyssa Park, thank you for making the music sound great. And to my parents up there, thank you for giving me guitars and drum machines instead of video games. Thank you.
- Self - Winner: Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Sam. Thanks, fellas. It's amazing, you only flubbed one line. I'd like to thank my terrible childhood... and the Academy, in that order. I'd like to thank my veterinarian -- I meant wife -- Susan Downey, over there. She found me a snarling rescue pet, and you loved me back to life. That's why I'm here. Thank you. Here's my little secret. I needed this job more than it needed me. Chris knew it. Emma made sure that she surrounded me with one of the great cast and crews of all time: Emily, Cillian, Matt Damon, Blunt. It was fantastic, and I stand here before you a better man because of it. You know, what we do is meaningful, and the stuff that we decide to make is important. So, back to my publicist... and my agent Philip Raskind is here, and Andrew Dunlap, my den mother Joy Fehily, thank you very much. I want to thank my stylist in case no one else does. Thanks, Erica, thank you very much. And I'm just gonna say this. My entertainment lawyer, Tom Hansen, of 40 years, the half of which he spent trying to get me insured and bailing me out of the hoosegow: Thanks, bro! Avri, Exton, Indio, this one's for you.
- Self - Winner: Oh, my goodness. Wow. I think any of us who make movies know that you kind of dream of this moment. You know you do, right? I could deny it, but I have been dreaming about this moment for so long, but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever actually happen. And now I'm standing here and everything's kind of gone out of my head. The reason this movie was the movie that it was was Chris Nolan. He is singular. He is brilliant, and I'm so grateful to you. But as Emma said, this is -- the thing that's fantastic about our jobs is that it's about collaboration. It's about teamwork. And our team was just incredible on this movie, so thank you to all of them, both cast and crew. Thank you to Universal for supporting us. And I want to thank Rich Gelfond at IMAX and everybody else at IMAX for believing in this movie when it maybe didn't make that much sense to do so. Thank you to all the theaters. As a moviegoer and as a filmmaker that's why we do what we do, so thank you so much. And to my children, Flora, Rory, Oliver, and Magnus, who's not here tonight, thank you. And it's U.K. Mother's Day so I'm thinking of my mum who's no longer with us today, and my mother-in-law Christina who's here with my dad, so thank you. Oh, and thank you to the Academy! I'm so honored to be here.
- Self - Winner: I certainly want to thank the Academy. I want to thank Universal Pictures, Donna Langley and the whole team there. I, of course, want to thank my family and my wife, who always has my back and is, as all my friends know, the secret weapon of my life. And I also want to thank James Woods and David Wargo for trusting me to move this project forward. They gave me the book, which I was fortunate enough to give to Chris and Emma. And finally, just want to say that, I've had this amazing twenty-plus-year experience with Chris and Emma. Five movies over twenty years, and it's been one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. They're a fantastic team and just to be part of making movies with them has been completely thrilling. So, thank you so much.
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