Post by Slim K team on Feb 28, 2005 5:33:04 GMT -8
[glow=red,2,300]ACADEMY AWARDS 2005[/glow]
By Todd Leopold/CNN/Monday, February 28, 2005 Posted: 5:31 AM EST (1031 GMT)
"The Aviator" had more Oscars, but it was "Million Dollar Baby" that scored the knockout punch at the Academy Awards Sunday night.
The Clint Eastwood-directed film about a female boxer, her crusty trainer and the trainer's ex-boxer right-hand man won four Oscars: best picture, best actress (Hilary Swank), best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman) and best director.
"I saw Sidney Lumet out there, who's 80, and I thought, 'I'm just a kid,' " said the 74-year-old Eastwood, the oldest director to win an Oscar. (Lumet, the director of films including "Network" and "The Verdict," won an honorary Oscar earlier in the evening.)
Producer Albert S. Ruddy, who guided the script into Eastwood's hands, accepted the award by thanking the people involved with the film. It had been 32 years since Ruddy's last win -- which was for the legendary "The Godfather."
Hilary Swank won best actress for "Million Dollar Baby," her second Oscar in five years.
"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all this," she said, on the verge of tears. "I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. ... I am eternally grateful for this great honor." She also paid tribute to her fellow best actress nominees, her husband, Chad Lowe -- forgotten when she won for "Boys Don't Cry" in 2000 -- and pretty much everyone who worked on the film.
When the orchestra started tuning up, she said, "You can't do that. I haven't gotten to Clint yet."
"Million Dollar Baby" also featured the best supporting actor winner, Morgan Freeman.
"I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture," Freeman said, singling out Eastwood and Swank in an elegant, understated speech.
Jamie Foxx lived up to expectations -- and gave the speech of the night -- when he won the Oscar for his performance in "Ray."
"I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' " said Foxx, who also thanked director Taylor Hackford, his managers, Sidney Poitier (while doing a wicked Poitier impression) and -- finally -- his grandmother, "who taught me how to act."
"She still talks to me, but now she talks to me in my dreams," he said. "And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we've got a lot to talk about."
Jamie Foxx, who played Ray Charles in "Ray," accepts the Oscar for best actor.
"The Aviator" won five awards, including best supporting actress for Cate Blanchett, but director Martin Scorsese is now 0-for-5 in the best director category. He has good company, including Alfred Hitchthingy and Robert Altman.
The film won best art direction, best cinematography and best costume design, as well as best supporting actress. Cate Blanchett took home that trophy for her turn as Katharine Hepburn in the film, a biography of Howard Hughes Hollywood years.
"When you play someone as terrifyingly well-known as Katharine Hepburn, it's a team effort," Blanchett said of her role in the film.
"Sideways," a critics' favorite, won best adapted screenplay. The two screenwriters, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, gave a speech amusing for its briskness, no doubt aware the orchestra could play them off the stage at a glance.
"The Incredibles" took best animated feature and sound editing.
"I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them," said Brad Bird, writer-director of the "The Incredibles," in accepting the best animated feature award.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" writer Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most famous screenwriter in Hollywood right now, won his first Oscar after previous nominations for "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation."
Cate Blanchett won best supporting actress for "The Aviator."
Very conscious of the countdown clock all winners must face, he nervously kept referring back to the time he had left -- somehow emblematic of his very inward-looking, thoughtful screenplays.
By Todd Leopold/CNN/Monday, February 28, 2005 Posted: 5:31 AM EST (1031 GMT)
"The Aviator" had more Oscars, but it was "Million Dollar Baby" that scored the knockout punch at the Academy Awards Sunday night.
The Clint Eastwood-directed film about a female boxer, her crusty trainer and the trainer's ex-boxer right-hand man won four Oscars: best picture, best actress (Hilary Swank), best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman) and best director.
"I saw Sidney Lumet out there, who's 80, and I thought, 'I'm just a kid,' " said the 74-year-old Eastwood, the oldest director to win an Oscar. (Lumet, the director of films including "Network" and "The Verdict," won an honorary Oscar earlier in the evening.)
Producer Albert S. Ruddy, who guided the script into Eastwood's hands, accepted the award by thanking the people involved with the film. It had been 32 years since Ruddy's last win -- which was for the legendary "The Godfather."
Hilary Swank won best actress for "Million Dollar Baby," her second Oscar in five years.
"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all this," she said, on the verge of tears. "I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. ... I am eternally grateful for this great honor." She also paid tribute to her fellow best actress nominees, her husband, Chad Lowe -- forgotten when she won for "Boys Don't Cry" in 2000 -- and pretty much everyone who worked on the film.
When the orchestra started tuning up, she said, "You can't do that. I haven't gotten to Clint yet."
"Million Dollar Baby" also featured the best supporting actor winner, Morgan Freeman.
"I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture," Freeman said, singling out Eastwood and Swank in an elegant, understated speech.
Jamie Foxx lived up to expectations -- and gave the speech of the night -- when he won the Oscar for his performance in "Ray."
"I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' " said Foxx, who also thanked director Taylor Hackford, his managers, Sidney Poitier (while doing a wicked Poitier impression) and -- finally -- his grandmother, "who taught me how to act."
"She still talks to me, but now she talks to me in my dreams," he said. "And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we've got a lot to talk about."
Jamie Foxx, who played Ray Charles in "Ray," accepts the Oscar for best actor.
"The Aviator" won five awards, including best supporting actress for Cate Blanchett, but director Martin Scorsese is now 0-for-5 in the best director category. He has good company, including Alfred Hitchthingy and Robert Altman.
The film won best art direction, best cinematography and best costume design, as well as best supporting actress. Cate Blanchett took home that trophy for her turn as Katharine Hepburn in the film, a biography of Howard Hughes Hollywood years.
"When you play someone as terrifyingly well-known as Katharine Hepburn, it's a team effort," Blanchett said of her role in the film.
"Sideways," a critics' favorite, won best adapted screenplay. The two screenwriters, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, gave a speech amusing for its briskness, no doubt aware the orchestra could play them off the stage at a glance.
"The Incredibles" took best animated feature and sound editing.
"I don't know what's more frightening, being watched by millions of people, or the hundreds of people that are going to be annoyed with me tomorrow for not mentioning them," said Brad Bird, writer-director of the "The Incredibles," in accepting the best animated feature award.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" writer Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most famous screenwriter in Hollywood right now, won his first Oscar after previous nominations for "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation."
Cate Blanchett won best supporting actress for "The Aviator."
Very conscious of the countdown clock all winners must face, he nervously kept referring back to the time he had left -- somehow emblematic of his very inward-looking, thoughtful screenplays.
