Casey Affleck wins Best Actor

the nominees for Best Actor this year gave us performances that advanced the movies never-ending quest to show us new faces of the hero and expand the concept of the leading man here are the brilliant nominees for performance by an actor in a leading role Casey Affleck Manchester by to see Andrew Garfield hacksaw edge Ryan Gosling la la lune Viggo Mortensen Captain Fantastic send the Washington ensign and the Oscar goes to Casey Affleck [Music] this is the first Oscar and second nomination for Casey Affleck [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nice uh thanks so much to me thank you one of the first people who taught me how to act was Denzel Washington and I just met him tonight the first time thank you and to all the other nominees did great work I'm proud to be in your company guys are very brave and I admire what you do and I'm only here really because of all that the talents and goodwill so many people are impossible to name but most of all Kenneth Larkin who made this part and without this part and without his writing I wouldn't be here for sure and well he directed it man I wish it something that's bigger and warming equal to say but I've just I'm really proud to be a part of this community in general I look out at all of you and I have this whole year and just dumbfounded that I'm included and it means a lot to me thank you also to Matt Damon for creating this opportunity to Mara box mom for so much and to patrick consumer and so many people of course my mother and my father for mostly usually believing in me and doing this and fanon love you you ain't heavy thank you all very much

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Length: 2min 58sec (178 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 03 2017

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[u/Ali_knows]

It's an orchestral version of this song I think.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uom2vyE3eJs

[u/AlwaysSunnyDragRace]

From the soundtrack: Leslie Barber - Manchester Minimalist Piano and Strings (Variation)