Geraldine Page Wins Best Actress: 1986 Oscars

as a group the nominees for Best Actress tonight have been nominated 24 times and have won four Oscars now it's time to make that five Oscars the nominees for performance by an actress in a leading role for her portrayal of a Mother Superior trying desperately to maintain decorum in a troubled situation and Bancroft and Agnes of God and Seeley who survived her childhood and a bad marriage and finally finds freedom and herself Whoopi Goldberg in the color purple as the strong-willed legendary country singer Patsy Cline Jessica Lange and sweet dreams as an elderly woman determined to get back to her childhood home Geraldine page in the crypt about as a passionate woman who Braves the new world to create a new life for herself Meryl Streep in Out of Africa I consider this woman the greatest actress in the English language the winners Geraldine page thank you all I wanted to say while Marie is here thank you for the mirror repertory company so much remotes memories they'll thank a horton Foote for all this I'm so glad I'm so glad the three members of the Academy responded to carry watts away I did evidently that's because the way he wrote it and I want to thank you for this for all of us in the company John heard and Carlin and Richard Bradford and Rebecca and was also the beautiful eye of Fred Murphy and the masterful direction and his film debut as a director Peter Masterson but mainly it's horton fall with all this you

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Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Wed May 14 2008