ACADEMY AWARDS WINNERS

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I prepared something exactly 45 seconds. My music is to dream without boundaries. Tonight with you, I see boundaries being crossed. As a classical music composer, I'm thrilled to be honored here. CROUCHING TIGER bridged East and West, romance and action, high and low cultures. Thank you Ang Lee, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Gilb, Michael Goffein, James Schamus, Bill Kong, thank you Sony Classical, Cami, and G. Shirmer for their long support. Last, this is for two tigers in my family, my wife Jane, Ian, son, both born in the year of tigers. Thank you, Academy.

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Oh, good God, this is amazing. I've got to thank Curtis Hanson for encouraging me to do this song and everybody at Paramount, Sherry Lansing and Jonathan Dolgen. But especially Curtis, who just kept at it. And he said this song was right and just encouraged me to do it so much and I'm so glad I did. Everybody at Columbia Records, my record company, who supports me all through these years, Tommy Mottola, Donny Iner, Larry Jenkins, Will Botwin, John Igracias, everybody like that up here. I want to say hello to all of my family and friends out there watching. And I want to thank the members of the Academy who, who were bold enough to, to give me this award for this song, which obviously, a song that doesn't pussyfoot around nor turn a blind eye to human nature. And God bless you all with peace, tranquility, and good will. Thanks.

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Wow. I would like to thank my family, the Academy, USA Films, our producers, Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Laura Bickford. My crew, Doug Crise, Keith Sauter, Norman Walker and Denise Marquez. I would like to thank Stephen Gaghan for writing such a beautiful and emotional script. And the entire cast and crew, who's outstanding achievements speak for itself. And Steven Soderbergh, it is a thrill to work with you. And it is a privilege to know you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

SPECIAL THANKS
Craig Bernstein, Laura Bickford, Larry Blake, Brannon Braga, Fred Frost, Portia Burke-Tanaka, Doug Cruise, Stephen Gaghan, Pia Graziosi, Jim Harville, Marshall Herskowitz, Eli Hollander, Paul Hook, Bud Hudson, Freda Hudson, Gregory Jacobs, Cameron Jones, Graham King, Andreas Klein, George Luchessi, Caitlin Maloney, Denise Marquez, Cliff Martinez, Phil Messina, Kristen Meyer, Barbara Mirrione, Charles Mirrione, Chris Mirrione, Jan Mirrione (Mom), Joe Mirrione, Linda Mirrione, Mary Mirrione, Pete Mirrione, Renee Mirrione, Shona Mirrione, Vincent A. Mirrione, Vincent C. Mirrione, Virginia Mirrione, Florence Morrison, Mike Newell, Helen Ostrander, Paul Peninger, Amber Pfeiffer, Keith Sauter, Steven Soderbergh, Richard Solomon, Norman Walker, Shalane Wood, Ed Zwick. 

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Oh, thank you. Well, thank you, Academy, for this special recognition for non-English movies. My thanks to my fellow producers Hsu Li Kong, Bill Kong, and to an enormously talented cast and crew who sacrificed so much. To James Schamus, David Linde, Ted Hope, and everyone at Good Machine. And to Barbara Robinson at Columbia Asia, and Gareth Wigan at Sony. And to Tom Bernard, Michael Barker, and Marcy Bloom at Sony Classic for their masterpiece job. And finally, to my friends and family in Taiwan, to my collaborators in Hong Kong, and everyone, people in China who help us so much in making this movie. It was a great honor. Thank you.

SPECIAL THANKS
On behalf of the filmmaking team, Ang Lee and James Schamus would like to offer the following thanks:

First, to the crew and cast - all of them.
Hsu Li Kong, who started it all a decade ago in Taipei.
Bill Kong for putting his life on the line.
David Lee and Joyce Hsieh - who has been with us from the start.
Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, Marcie Bloom and Tom Prassis, Carmelo Pirrone and Dylan Leiner and their teams at Sony Pictures Classics - for a perfect and passionate job that has gone down in history.
Gareth Wigan - our godfather.
Barbara Robinson at Columbia Asia for her support.
Sal Ladestro, Tony Manne, Peter Schlessel, and everyone else who has worked so hard at Sony, including Richard Napper in the U.K.
Tory Metzger for her civility, support, and loyalty.
Ira Schreck and Joe Dapello for their heroic efforts.
Reid Rosefelt and his team at Magic Lantern for their overwhelming work on behalf of us.
Simon Halls for wonderful counsel.
Melody Korenbrot and Ziggy Kozlowski for fighting so hard.
The whole Good Machine family, and especially David Linde and Ted Hope, with daily support for Ang from Beth Binnard, Heta Paarte, and Anne Carey and their teams, and with a major assist from Peter Kujawski and the whole GM International gang.
Jean Castelli, who helped shape the film from the start.
Bennett Passel, Donna Smith, Valero de Pails, Antonio Lorenz, Betrayal Sandgren, Francis Boesphlug, Jan Olufson, and Rainer and Michael Kolmel for believing in us from the beginning.
To the Manex team for their magical visions.
To the people of China who so warmly welcomed the filmmakers during our stay there.
Peter Gelb and his team at Sony Classical for celestially harmonic support.
Gao for his kung fu training.
Ah Cheng for his beautiful language.
Mrs. Wang Du Lu and her daughter for allowing us to honor Wang Du Lu.

From James, thanks to his family and friends, to every Golden Boat investor, to his students and colleagues at Columbia University for keeping it all in perspective, and to his three muses: Nancy, Nora, and Djuna.

From Ang, deepest thanks to his family and to the Chinese audience throughout the world for their support. And to his children Haan and Mason, and to his wife, Jane Lin.

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Whew! My grandfather's name was Stan Wemyss. He was a cinematographer in the second World War. My uncle David, David William Crowe, he died last year at the age of 66. I'd like to thank the Academy for something that, which is pretty surprising, and dedicate it to two men who still continue to inspire me.

I would also like to thank my mom and dad, who I just don't thank enough, I suppose. And an incredible cast, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou, Ralf Moeller, Spencer Treat Clark, the magnificent Richard Harris, the late Oliver Reed, Tomas Arana, Tommy Flanagan, Derek Jacobi, and everybody else. Dreamworks, a great company, and a vital and andrenalized contributor of the art form, Doug Wick, David Franzoni, Bruno Lustig, and Terry Needham, and a very brave crew collected from 22 different countries around the world. To the people who work for me, who work with me, my personal cavalry, George Freeman, Alan Hergott, Larry Witser, Shirley Pierce, Robin Baum, Mark Dumbrell. 

But, really, folks, I owe this to one bloke, and his name is Ridley Scott.

You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. Thanks very much.

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Oh, thank you, thank you ever so much. I'm so happy. Thank you. I have, I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. And sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick so why don't you sit because I may never be here again.

I would like to start with telling you all how amazing the experience of feeling the sisterhood of being included in a group with Joan Allen and Juliette Binoche and Laura Linney and Ellen Burstyn for these last weeks, has been, it's just felt like such a triumph to me to be in that list. My name starts with "R" so I'm always last, but I still love the list. But I can't believe this is, this is quite pretty.

I want to acknowledge so many people that made Erin Brokovich ERIN BROKOVICH. But let me make my dress pretty. Universal, everybody at Universal, Kevin Mischer and Stacey Snider and Stacey Sher and I can't believe I'm remembering everybody's name. Jersey Films, Danny Devito, and everybody over there. Everyone I've ever met in my life.

This movie was sinfully fun to make, and Albert Finney is my friend, and my pleasure to act with. And Aaron Eckhart and Scotty and Gemmenne and Brittany and Ashley, all the wonderful actors that played my children. And Marg Helgenberger. And turn that clock off, it's making me nervous.

Greg Jacobs, everybody on our crew that was so great. And, well, just a few other people. And, but really, the main person, well, Richard LaGravenese and Susannah Grant who wrote such a nice script. Steven Soderbergh, hi, there you are. You truly just made me want to be the best actor that I suppose I never knew I could be, or aspire to. And I made every attempt, stickman, I see you, so I thank you for really making me feel so, I love it up here! Yeah, anyway, I start working for him again in two days, so I can get to you later, but Benjamin Bratt, my sister Lisa, my brother-in-law Tony, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, who's been my agent since God was a boy, Jeff Berg, my mom, and just Frances and Marcus and Mike and everybody who's watching at home, Kelly, Emma, everybody. I love the world! I'm so happy! Thank you! 

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Well -- thank you. Thank you. I would like to thank the members of the Academy, and I would also like to thank Steven Soderbergh, Laura Bickford, Ed Zwick, Marshall, Rick, and Eileen, everyone at USA Films, and I also like to dedicate this to two locations where we shot this film. We went from Washington, D.C. all the way to San Diego, California. I would like to dedicate this to the people of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico. Thank you.

SPECIAL THANKS 
I'd like to thank:
My Traffic team: Alan Shaterian, Chic Daniel, John Calary, and Stephen Bridgewater
Ilene Feldman, Rick Yorn, and Steve Warren
Juan Silva, Rick Needham, Web Johnson, Stella Adler, Arthur Mendoza, and the late Dr. Elias Cheleuite and his family.
My father for showing me the power of caring; my mother for teaching me never to give up; my brother for looking out for me and my godmother for giving me a million and one reasons to believe.
Kim Shultz and all my fans.

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Thank you. What a thrill. Members of the Academy, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to even view the tape and consider our film. Ed Harris, thank you for inviting me to share your passion. You are a brave director and an even braver actor and I love you. Dad, who's here tonight, thank you for teaching me how to soldier through tough situations and Mom, for teaching me how to do it gracefully. To Fred Berner, Peter Brant and Joe Allen, thank you for rearing this film and ushering it into the world, Sony Pictures Classics, and especially Michael Barker.

To my family and my agents and Maryellen Mulcahy, without whom I would never be here. My lawyer, my husband Thaddaeus Scheel, all the people who help you in this crazy business, I want to thank you and for the inception of the film, James Trezza and Barbara Turner. Thank you..

SPECIAL THANKS
Ed Harris THANK YOU! Our Producers Peter Brant, Fred Berner, Joe Allen, James Trezza, Candy Trabucco At Sony Pictures Classics: Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marci. Reid Rosefelt and Magic Lantern. To all of our cast, thank you, especially Amy Madigan and Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer Connelly, Bud Cort, Robert Knott, and Stephanie Seymour. To all the crew, thank you, especially Jeffrey Sacino, Marilyn Carbone, David Robinson, and Lisa Rinzler. Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller. To the Pollock and Krasner families. Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. Ira Schreck, James Adams, Carri McClure at PMK, The Gersh Agency, Todd Thaler, and Brian Reardon. Maryellen Mulcahey and Peg Donegan. Allana Ayoub. Ron Van Lieu at NYU and Lee Abraham at University of Texas. My husband Thaddaeus Scheel, I love you. Thad Harden and Beverly Bushfield Harden. To my siblings: Leslie Jernigan, Sheryl Peyton, Thaddeus Harden, and Stephanie O'Brien. Russell Scheel, Elizabeth Scheel, Julia Scheel, Phillip Scheel, and Mark Scheel. Friends in Venice and NY! Collier Strong, Richard Marin. Jessica Pasteur. Molly Lopata. The Coen Brothers. Donna Isaacson, John Lyons. Michael Shea. Mireya Vidal.