With that comment, America loved that goofball with moxie all the more.

Invitation accepted, amore.

This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll.

Academy Awards | Shout-from-the-mountaintops speeches were par for the course in 1997, but no winner felt more elated than Cameron, who wrapped up his Best Director acceptance with

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It’s for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox.

The clock kept ticking, she kept talking because ‘‘I might not be up here again.’’

Then she let rip that famous guffaw of hers and declared, ‘‘I love it up here!’’

Academy Awards | Benigni had a twofer at the 71st Annual Academy Awards, taking home Best Foreign Language Film (who can forget Sophia Loren shouting, ‘‘Robertoooo!'’?) and Best

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Nowthat’s how you have the last laugh.

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Show him the Oscar!

TheJerry Maguiresupporting player wrote the book on exuberantly over-the-top acceptance speeches.

Academy Awards | Berry made history, when her role in Monster’s Ball made her the first-ever African-American woman to take home the Best Actress Oscar. After a standing

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With enthusiasm like that, they’d be coming back to the big show for years to come.

and deferential to her industry team.

It was heartbreaking and heart-swelling all at once.

Academy Awards | Halle Berry inadvertently found herself in another major Oscar moment a year after her own win when dark-horse winner Brody wrapped her up in his

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They are here in solidarity because we like non-fiction.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

We live in a time where fictitious election results give us a fictitious president.

Academy Awards | In an endearingly rambling speech, stopping occasionally to fix her dress and thank ‘‘everybody I’ve ever met in my life,’’ Roberts had the audience in

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We are now fighting a war for fictitious reasons.

Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you!’'

Cue cheers from the audience and a roar of boos from backstage.

On his seventh nomination, Martin Scorsese’s long wait for an Oscar when he claimed the Best Director prize for The Departed . It was even

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It was classic Moore.

Anna Paquin | The 11-year-old Best Supporting Actress — who still stands as the category’s second-youngest winner — was positively agape that she’d snagged the statuette for her

Cuba Gooding Jr. | ‘‘You can cut away. I won’t be mad at you.''—Best Supporting Actor in Jerry Maguire before jumping around the stage Watch here

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After giving a kiss to their mom-dates, the Good Will Hunting scribes and soon-to-be-superstars approached the mic with a mix of nervous excitement and boyish

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Gwyneth Paltrow | The contents of the speech were loving and kind but the clearly overwhelmed actress weepily thanked everyone for two and a half minutes for her

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Stanley Donen | ‘‘Tonight, words seem inadequate. In musicals, that’s when we could do a song. So… Heaven, I’m in Heaven …''—Honorary Oscar, as he launched into song

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Academy Awards | ‘‘I have to just take this moment in!’’ Hudson was the new kid on the block, a former reality reject, when she became an Oscar

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Academy Awards | After winning Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine , the firebrand documentarian spent very little time stepping onto his soapbox: ‘‘I have invited the

Academy Awards | Foxx so uncannily embodied R&B great Ray Charles for his Best Actor-winning turn in Ray that it was only right to open with the famous

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