Daily post 13 Jan 2010 06:19 pm
Acceptance Speeches
Thia was Wes Anderson’s acceptance speech at the National Board of Review:
At the NYFilm Critics Awards on Monday, George Clooney introduced Wes Anderson with an embarrassing speech, according to Variety.
Clooney said, “Before the show started Wes said, ‘George, tonight when I give my acceptance speech, I am going to blow the roof off this place. I’m going to give the best god-damn acceptance speech in New York Film Critics Circle history.’
I said, ‘You know, Wes, there are some people here that are good at this shit like Meryl Streep,’ and he said, ‘Fuck her. Fuck Meryl Streep!’ I mean who says that? Really, Wes!”
A visibly embarrassed Anderson then gave a brief acceptance speech, to which Meryl Streep gave him a standing ovation.
This was Anderson’s speech:
- “This movie took approximately the same amount of time as an undergraduate college education, and to me it also had a kind of university-like atmosphere,†he said. “More or less every person in the entire very large crew was a kind of scholar in their area — a very gifted, knowledgeable specialist. And all the various movements, they often resembled basement laboratories where experimental projects were being invented. I certainly was a student in this establishment, although an extremely old one compared to most of my professors.†He concluded by thanking the “think tank of artists and crafts people†who “educated me in stop-motion animation.â€
on 14 Jan 2010 at 9:21 am 1.Elliot Cowan said …
The embedded thingy doesn’t seem to play for me.
Perhaps you can include a link also?
on 14 Jan 2010 at 9:21 am 2.Elliot Cowan said …
Wait.
Ignore that.
It just kicked in for some reason.
on 14 Jan 2010 at 12:35 pm 3.stephen said …
was lucky enough to be there tuesday night. the animation was totally unexpected–it got a really marvelous live reaction.
on 14 Jan 2010 at 12:46 pm 4.Michael said …
Stephen, YouTube has a version of the speech shot at the ceremony with a cell phone. You can hear the laughter troughout.
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