Emma Thompson - Golden Globes 1996 (Best Speech ever!) .m4v

The nominees for Best Motion Picture Screenplay are... Patrick Sean Duncan, Mr. Holland's Opus Scott Frank, Get Shorty Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking Aaron Sorkin, The American President Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility Randall Wallace, Braveheart And the winner is... Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility Good heavens, I can't thank you enough, Hollywood Foreign Press, for honouring me in this capacity I don't wish to burden you with my debts, which are heavy and numerous But I think that everybody involved in the making of this film knows that we owe all our pride and all our joy to the genius of Jane Austen And it occurred to me to wonder how she would react to an evening like this This is what I came up with 4am, having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres Which, despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without its pleasures Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children The gowns were middling There was a good deal of shouting and behaviour verging on the profligate However, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintances Miss Lindsay Duran of Mirage, wherever that might be, who is largely responsible for my presence here An enchanting companion about whom too much good cannot be said Mr Ang Lee, of foreign extraction Who, most unexpectedly, appeared to understand me better than I understand myself Mr James Seamus, a most copiously erudite person And Miss Kate Winslet, beautiful in both countenance and spirit Mr Pat Doyle, a composer and a Scot who displayed the kind of wild behaviour one has learned to expect from that race Mr Mark Canton, an energetic person with a ready smile who, as I understand it, owes me a great deal of money Miss Lisa Henson of Columbia, a lovely girl And Mr Gareth Wigan, a lovely boy I attempted to converse with Mr Sidney Pollock, but his charms and wisdom are so generally pleasing that it proved impossible to get within ten feet of him The room was full of interesting activity until 11pm when it emptied rather suddenly The lateness of the hour is due therefore not to the dance, but to the waiting in a long line for a horseless carriage of unconscionable size The modern world has clearly done nothing for transport P.S. managed to avoid the whodun, Emily Tomkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own, nefarious creature Thank you