Cate Blanchett winning Best Actress for "Blue Jasmine"

there are five sublimely gifted women nominated for Best Actress in a leading role the nominees are Amy Adams American hustle Cate Blanchett blue Jasmine Sandra Bullock gravity Judi Dench Philomena Meryl Streep August Osage County and the Oscar goes to Cate Blanchett sit down you're too old to be standing Thank You mr. day-lewis from you it exacerbates this honor - and it blows it right out of the ballpark thank you so much to the Academy as as random and as subjective as this award is it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary yet again extraordinary performances by women Amy Adams everything you do but their performance in American hustle blew my mind and Meryl what can I say Sandra I could watch that performance to the end of time and I sort of felt like I had Julia hashtag suck it you know what I mean and judi dench I mean what a career she's not here tonight because at the age of 79 her film was so successful that she's in India doing a sequel I mean what a career that is if I could hope and me I'm here accepting award in an extraordinary screenplay by Woody Allen thank you so much woody for casting me I truly appreciate it I'm so very proud that blue Jasmine stayed in the cinemas for as long as it did and thank you to Sony classics to Michael and Tom for their extraordinary support for so bravely and intelligently distributing the film and to the audience's who went to see it and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that that female films with women at the center unleash experiences they are not audiences want to see them and in fact they earn money so people thank you to my mum to my sister to my brother to my three glorious sons I would not be standing here without you - my husband Andrew you are a legend - thank thank you to my agent Hilda Creely you're behind the pillars somewhere up there you are a goddess - my agent in Australia Robin Gardner I love you so very much - my em publicist Lisa castella to the sublime Sally Hawkins and to the extraordinary cast of blue Jasmine I don't know how to do this without other actors and this I share with you - the hair and makeup people who sweated me up and tried to make me look attractive thank you for the attempt to Carla Maia for getting Sally and I together and food incredible support - Helen Robin - to everyone involved in in blue Jasmine I thank you so much and finally I would like to thank every single member of the Sydney Theatre Company one of the great theatre companies in the world for me working on blue Jasmine it was a real synthesis of my work in the theatre and on film and not only working with you for the last six years has been a most enormous privilege of my career but it's maybe a better actress there is so much talent in Australia and Michael Wilkinson and cm and I are just the tonight's tip of the iceberg thank you so much thank you

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Keywords: oscars, 86th, academy awards, cate blanchett, blue jasmine, best actress, daniel day-lewis

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Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 11 2014