I find it BEAUTIFUL that the spanish actors have such a pride for their country! Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem spoke part of their speech in Oscar in spanish
Spain.... I like her.... But the in my country dont like Penélope or Javier Bardem... I think because they dont go to the spanish tv programs like other foregein celebrities do
This has to be one of the best Oscar nomination presentations ever - so fresh yet humble, and celebrating all the actresses for their work. Amazing style.
Love it! I agree totally. Thanks for posting OP! When you see Eva Marie Saint and Viola Davis tearing up, it's magic. And Taraji P. Henson doing the same. It shows how honoured people feel at a nomination - so much better than rudhing through the nominees.
She says, "To everyone from Spain, who's sharing this with moment me, I want you to know this is for you, and dedicated to you, and to all the actors from my country, thanks a lot"
I watched an interview with Cruz some time during the Oscar season, and one thing that I remember her saying was that when the movie was first screened, I think at Cannes, people were laughing throughout her more manic scenes, and Cruz couldn't understand why because she really felt Maria Elena's pain and suffering. To me, that was the brilliance of that performance, and probably Allen's directing. Cruz played Maria Elena like a real woman when it could have been so easy to play her as a joke. She absolutely deserved this award because she truly breathed life and brought the much-needed energy to the film. I think most people came away from that film with Cruz's performance in their mind. That's award worthy.
I just realized that Viola David and Taraji P. Henson both got nominated for Oscars together and now have been nominated for a ton of other awards for their TV roles recently!
What a gracious speech! Who says her Eng isn't good, she spoke really well much better and sensible than some of the native actors on this platform and what a beautiful actress! And also, liked that she thanked Woody for making wonderful women characters over the years, that's absolutely true!
I can't get over how much I liked the way these awards were presented - with former winners each introducing one nominee. They were funny and moving, without taking up a lot of time.
This was the best idea to have 5 previously winners present an award to her! It is like a testimony and a rite of passage. It is symbolic and warm, a grand gesture and very beautiful and emotional to watch. They should have done that every year.
Well, yes, in this picture she played what she is, a Spanard woman! Knd of typecasted due to unable to speak unaccented English. Her husband learned but like they can't play anything else.
Marion Cotillard is so happy that Penélope won. Marion is behind Amy Adams lol. Please watch Marion Cotillard winning Oscar for La Vie en Rose to increase the views.
Penelope Cruz was nominated with Kate Winslet 2 years before at the 79th Academy Awards and they finally won in the same night. Real nice work by both, you deserved to win the Oscar.
+Mariolittle13 She did it because they're both Europeans and we always have that camaraderie between us, specially between France and Spain which are neighbours.
Many think Tilda Swinton is weird, but that's what I love about her. Her talent is undeniable, and I love the regality with which she made this particular presentation.
Paulo Araujo Amy Adams is long overdue, I am glad that Penelope Cruz and she was great! I hope that Amy Adams wins b/c she is such a good actress***** I think she will win one day if she does I will be happy for Amy and Amy Adams was great in American Hustle, Doubt, Junebung, The Fighter, Penelope Cruz is so pretty and I loved her dress
Oscar 2009 was really unique, not only because Kate won her long pending Oscar or Jackman hosted remarkably , but there was such a beautiful way to present oscars , i have no idea why they stopped presenting Oscars in this such an amazing way.
I wish they'd bring this format back. it gives each nominee a certain spotlight or a short tribute for their work. plus, having previous winners on the stage make it seem like a sort of graduation, it's cool. whoopie killed her speech btw, amy so deserved that compliment, so underrated.
I love Penelope so much but i think that her best ever performance since now is in "Non ti muovere" of Sergio Castellitto everytime that i see her role in that movie My heart cry but it's not famous as a woody allen movie! In "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" "Volver" and "Blow" she was just BRILLIANT
She so deserved it for Volver, and you´re right, she was good in Blow. But VCB was meh! Too stereotypical and in IMO, a smaller character. I skip her scenes.
De LM I was just thinking that. They need to be like that now, honouring each other with a speech and congratulating them on the nomination rather than putting them up against each other
This is how all Nominees shoud be presented in the Oscars EVERY YEAR! So Personal.. Emotional and felt as a tribute to their contribution in their craft, also its also have a feeling of homage to and outmost respect to previous winners.. lets have this every year Academy please. Lets petition. Whos with me?
Traslated literally: "Everybody in Spain sharing this moment with me and feeling that this award is theirs as much as it's mine, I dedicate it to you, and also to all the actors from my country. Thank you very much".
One of the most deserved Oscar ever. Penelope is a wonderful actress, and she was just perfect in VCB. A great and genuine performance. After 12 years I still believe that is the top of her great career. I'm sorry for Amy and Viola's fans but Penelope was better (both of them gave thier best performance in other movies).
Penelope Cruz (Bardem) is so deserving and I loved watching this speech! What a beautiful group of women nominated and an inspirational woman as the winner! Brava y felicidades, Penelope! 👏❤️
These are all fine actresses and their real award is the gift of performing on screen for the world to see, like, and criticize. Just being nominated means you did your job, and did it well. Only one can get the hardware, and that isn't always fair. But it is Hollywood after all.
I'm brazilian, but touched me, when she started to speak in spanish!I really hope that someday, some brazilian actor/actres could win an oscar, just to see them there standing and representing a country!
bro Fernanda Montenegro was robbed when she was nominee for estación central do Brasil. It would have been awesome if she has won, historical for Brasil.
Penelope Cruz has such a special style in her acting that nobody has. I cannot really describe what it is but in every role I saw her she had that extreme gift to focus a character around its core without the slightest irrelevance. To me she is the best actress Europe has - which is not from Britain :-)
Steal The Reel It's too long but it also presents the film and not only the actor, so one who hasn't watched the film can know what it talks about, what character they played ect.
I think Penelope Cruz was easily the best out of that category and had the most interesting character to play. Taraji P. Henson was quite good, but nothing special to me, Amy Adams was good, too, but she has better roles. Viola Davis was very good (but her performance wasn't only short, but it was also just one scene) and so was Marisa Tomei. But Marisa Tomei was really just a support for Mickey Rourke. She was sometimes (not always!) overshadowed by Mickey Rourke while Penelope Cruz stood out in every scene she was.
She was in more than one scene, first of all. Second of all, there have been Oscar winners in the category for even shorter amounts of screen time. Check out Dame Judy Dench for Shakespeare in Love.
TheOGKSJ or Beatrice Straight (Supporting Actress in NETWORK) who has the distinction of being the shortest performance to win an Oscar at only 5 minutes, 40 seconds. Incidentally, Hermione Baddeley (Supporting Actress in ROOM AT THE TOP) was the shortest performance to get nominated, at 2 minutes, 32 seconds. BTW: Sabrina ROss, the category is SUPPORTING Actress. Of course, Tomei was supporting Rourke, the lead character. Just like Cruz supported the leads in her movie.
Then compare Foster in Taxi Driver to Beatrice in Network or Judi Dench in SIL (who said herself that she didn't feel deserving and who should have rather won for Mrs. Brown the year before) to Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters. Did Straight/Dench really deserve it over those two performances? I know that it's the supporting category ;) But most of the supporting winners steal every scene they are in and they don't really support the main character, they seem actually more interesting than the main character (Ledger, Bale, Hackman, Plummer, Wiest, Blanchett, Swinton, ...). So who was supported by Cruz? Johansson? Bardem? The two were easily forgettable as soon as Cruz appeared on screen.
T me there was nt supporting acting, they all carry the movie a perfect Pitagoras triangulo. See this year Carol, Cate and Rooney carry the movie equally yet they split the nominations best and supporting. It' s all rigged.
I love that Tilda so effortlessly fits in with the Hollywood star crowd (she's really PLAYING THE ROLE!) and yet, is the ultimate outsider to all of that - one of the great maverick performers in the history of film.
What Goldie Hawn told Taraji P Henson was so beautiful, I’m surprised she didn’t burst into tears. All five presenters did an amazing job honoring the nominees.
Incredible line up of great actresses that year. Oscar well deserved for Cruz! Since Penelope's Oscar win, she's continue to become one of the best actresses in the business. Hope she'll be nominated again this year for 'Parallel Mothers.' Even though, the film hasn't been released yet, but it'll be awesome to see her nominated again.
I love beautiful actress who can act really good, they can prove they're in Hollywood not just because of their beauty but because they have talent too
please return to this way of presenting the categories, it is elegant, beautiful and inclusive, as well as giving the public the opportunity to enjoy these luminaries together
Oh my goodness she is so beautiful ! That necklace is a dream. Well done Penelope - ten years on and your performance in this film is still as captivating as it was back then.
I know by the way she looked when she "thanked" harvey weinstain that she felt like she had to thank him as an obligation bcs u could tell in her face that she didn't really wanted to thank him
one of my favourite moments from the Oscars...Anjelica, Goldie, Tilda, Whoopi, the first nomination of Viola Davis...and last but not least, behind Marisa Tomei there is my favourite couple of legends, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker!