F. Murray Abraham winning Best Actor

best actor a really superb performance is an actor getting out of his own way trusting that the character he's playing has a life of its own and allowing that character to be what it must be the five actors nominated tonight have accomplished just that for his role as a man consumed by envy of Wolfgang Mozart in Amadeus F Murray Abraham as a being from another planet with much to teach us in Starman Jeff Bridges for his portrait of a man driven to self-destruction in under the volcano Albert Finney in the title role of the immortal musical prodigy Amadeus Tom Howe and as the American reporter whose life has changed forever by the war in Southeast Asia in the killing field Sam Waterson the winner is f Murray yeah it would be a lie if I told you I didn't know what to say because I've been working on this speech for about 25 years but you were not going to hear any of those speeches because I none of the speeches were less than 45 seconds you know it's a it's easy to gamble everything when you've got nothing to lose and melosh Foreman had a great deal to lose when he gave these brilliant roles to Tom House and me and his courage became my inspiration there's only one thing that's missing for me tonight and that is to have Tom Hall standing by my side wait I still have more time wait half of this statue belongs to my beloved wife Kate thank you you

Channel: Oscars

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Rating: 4.9314485 out of 5

Keywords: 57, Lead, Actor, Murray, Abraham, Shirley, MacLaine, Oscars, Academy, Awards, Amadeus, Tom, Hulce, Jeff, Bridges, Albert, Finney, Sam, Waterston

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Length: 3min 39sec (219 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 25 2010