Hilary Swank presenting Russell Crowe the Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in "Gladiator" at the 73rd Academy Awards® in 2001. Introduced by host Steve Martin.
"If anybody's who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage....it's possible." Fucking deep. They don't make simple, uplifting acceptance speeches like they used to.
@@imranbacha I think he was saying even when the odds are against you, the will to succeed can make the difference. A lot of celebs are born into it, but there are some who really bust there ass to get there and I believe Crowe fought tooth and nail for everything he earned.
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@@user-yo4mt9mn2q Steve is just making fun of the fact that he cannot possibly be that versatile as an actor. The joke there happens when he said the opposite -- that he is all that ---which of course is false. Americans and the British often use self-deprecation or sarcasm in their sense of humor.
I remember it being one of my first, if not, the first R rated movie I ever saw at age 11 and i love it even more now than I did … it holds up so well and is one of the all time greatest
Because they're professional actors, maximus doesn't exist, rusell is who gave life to the character. It would have been silly if the public started cheering the character.
Can we just talk about how loud the crowd went the second he was announced winner. I’ve never seen a crowd react the way they did for any event, even when other actors win an Oscar. Truly incredible.
@@organboi "Are you 10 years old?", what a way to start a reply, by being a rude and insufferable douche that finds the need to correct people when no correction is necessary. I bet you're one of those people that always needs to have their voice. And no, they're not many other times the crowd has cheered this much, along with a standing ovation. A few that come to mind would be Anthony Hopkins, Leonardo DiCaprio, and James Ivory (who isn't even an actor). No the crowd may not have cheered for Ivory as quick as the others, but a standing ovation for a screen writer has pretty much never happened. Maybe before you make an unnecessary correction, I suggest you relearn what it's like to have basic manners when speaking to someone. Or are YOU the 10 year old who hasn't learnt that basic human decency yet? Go speak to your mother this way (if she still recognises you as a son) and see how she reacts. Asshole.
@@liesmies6280 With respect, Gladiator is NOT a blockbuster; a blockbuster was, for example, Independence Day, or shit like that. Gladiator was a piece of art, that yes, became a blockbuster, but I would not call it that, never.
The part where he start seeing the path to his dead family was heartbreaking and absolutely amazing, i cried well Everytime I watch this movie tears came out me
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Years later, this is still one of the best acceptance speeches I've ever heard. It was heartfelt, he gave names without listing a hundred of them and made it personal and inspiring to others. This was a strong field that year. Anyone of those men could have won and it would have been deserved. What really made the moment for me was that it was so obvious he was NOT expecting it. The shocked look on his face was priceless. And their choice has been confirmed , everyone still remembers the movie and it's held up over time.
@@ziyaemir No, you idiot. It is refering to the scene in Gladiator when Comodus stabs Maximus and says exactly that. Most people only relate Joaquin to his role as Joker, when he has so much better movies.
Tom Hanks had to be thinking he was going to win it. 'Cast Away' was all him. A tour de force performance. But Russell deserved it most, probably one of the most talented actors in that room.
@@Izaan2810 I don’t disagree with you about Denzel in Training Day. He was amazing in that role. But Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind was one of the finest Acting performances I’ve ever seen. It’s right up there with the very best that DeNiro, Pacino, Hoffman or Nicholson ever did.
@@juismac You know buddy, I just watched A Beautiful Mind a week ago again and now I whole heartedly agree with you. I just watched it and realized that Russell was some whole another level thing in that movie with his acting which is even better than in Gladiator. What a powerhouse performance!! And I agree, he should have won that year. Denzel deserved it as well as in my opinion, he had the second best performance after Russell.
' Anyone who is on downside of advantage and relying purely on courage,its possible '. What a line 👏🏽 I mean he is an artist but am still amazed how people come with moving lines.well, it moved me atleast
You can tell from his reaction he's a humble person, and the guy behind him who gave him a hug and was celebrating harrd, we all need a friend like that😂😂
he roughed up some organiser of an event not long before the Oscars if I recall because he cut his speech short, it made news everywhere so probably hurt his image and cost him votes
He certainly has a way with words. No wonder he and Ridley Scott were able to piece together that script on the fly. I love that last line of the speech: "For anybody who is on the downside of advantage and relying purely on courage: it is possible."
I know right! It's so adorable! Joaquin looks like a 10-year-old congratulating his big brother on something. Just proof that the best friendships start when actors play enemies onstage/onscreen. His smile… I melted. :3
It echoes how his brother reacted when he lost to another actor at the Oscars. They're both so, so humble and aren't scared to be themselves! No one compares. No one. Absolutely no one.
Yeah it's funny how actors playing enemies often end up besties. Best known example was Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton, who played Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. Judy said in her autobiography that Margaret was the kindest person she had ever met and was more of a mother to her than her own mother ever was. Margaret even came to Judy's high school graduation.
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When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
This is my favorite oscar acceptance for a male actor. From the beginning where he is taken off guard and assaulted by his cast and crew mates, who seem happier than he is, to that great bit at the end where he talks about childhood imaginings. It wasn't overly emotional. It was just right.
That reaction was so genuine when he heard his name because if you remember he didn’t win the golden globe or the SAG. So it was probably so surreal hearing his name for the Oscar!
He did not win *BAFTA,* either. That year, there was no front runner for *Best Actor.* No one swept the precursor awards: *Golden Globe* = Tom Hanks, _Cast Away_ *Critics' Choice* = Russell Crowe, _Gladiator_ *BAFTA* = Jamie Bell, _Billy Elliot_ *Screen Actors Guild* = Benicio Del Toro, _Traffic_ At the *Oscars,* Bell was not even nominated and Del Toro won for *Best Supporting Actor,* instead.
Katherine Heigl has an Emmy, what's your point? Joaquin can't act any better than Highhorse Heigl can. At the end of the day it's political, which is why MOST of the actors that deserve them NEVER GET THEM.
Completely agree with you there. Impossible to choose from. But good choice in all. I can still watch Gladiator today, and that would be the 25th time if i did. It's that good.
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Yes indeed. I was like ohhh what a competition. And i so like Russel Crowe but if any of them won, wouldn't be so heart breaking. But he did and so my heart was happy.
Maximus was elevated in Heroism due to Joaquin unselfishly playing the supreme, despicable villian. I found myself feeling an irrational hatred of Commodus for days after the movie.... That's Acting!
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Yes . ALEXANDER , RUSSELL CROWE SHOULD HAVE WON FOR A BEAUTiFUl MIND , TOO. SIM , ALEXANDER , RUSSELL DEVERIA TER GANHO O ÓSCAR POR SUA ATUAÇÃO EM UMA MENTE BRILHANTE TAMBÉM , IRREPREENSÍVEL, INCRÍVEL RUSSELL !!!!!
Let's not forget that in the lead up to the Oscars, there was no clear frontrunner for the Best Actor award. That prize was evenly distributed among other people at other ceremonies (Crowe won the Critics Choice; Tom Hanks won the Golden Globe; Benicio Del Toro won SAG (Del Toro won the Oscar in the Supporting category), while Jamie Bell (who wasn't even nominated at the Oscars) won the BAFTA). This category was up in the air at the time.
axr714 thanks for the insights. I’ve watched the Oscars for years since ever I was kids but when I was younger I didn’t pay attention to the lead up and speculation about who or what would win. Good info, its not Wonder he had a genuine shock reaction
A lot of people praise Russell Crowe for his stunning performance in the Gladiator but truth to speak, this movie wouldn't be what it is if not for Phoenix. My credits go to both of them equally.
just go back through time and you can just see how happy Joaquin Phoenix is when his friends and fellow actors win, and rewind to when he won for Joker he still takes more time talking about his fellow actors etc then himself.
This was a tough one. Because Tom Hanks WAS Castaway, and carrying an entire movie basically by yourself is a feat, Russel Crowe showed his entire range, while being utterly believable and real in his delivery in somewhat of an unreal movie. He 'became' Maximus in a role that others may have overacted. You suspended disbelief and absorbed the character and story.
Yah he really ruined his shot at winning back to back Oscars after he roughed up someone at the BAFTA awards, and essentially alienated himself from Hollywood. It was his to lose. He had a good chance at winning 3 oscars in a row with his performance in The Insider, as the race was supposedly pretty close between him, Denzel, and Kevin Spacey.
Ramsay Bolton when they announced Russell Crowe’s name and Joaquin kissed him I thought Joaquin was gonna stab him haha he was still Commodus to me, even at the Oscars
In 2002, for A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe won the SAG, Golden Globes, BAFTA and Critics Choice. Only award he didn't win was the Oscar, which went to Denzel Washington for Training Day instead. But Denzel Washington should have won for Malcolm X, but that year Oscar went to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. But Al Pacino should have won for Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather. So, as you can see, it's a vicious cycle created by the Academy. God knows when this will stop.
I have seen the movie several times and i have never felt bored and this explains the biggest success of the product, so i think they worth it 🙌👏💓👍, you rock Russel Crowe, thank you so much.
The late 90s and early 00s were Crowe's best years. He made so many great performances in a few years - LA Confidential, The insider, Gladiator, A beautiful mind, Master and commander.
Yes I agree . He made some great movies I thought a Beautiful Mind should have won him an Oscar
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That was 15 years ago and Crowe was at the top of his game. He should´ve won this for his performance on "The Insider", a year before, and deserved to win again the next year, for "A Beautiful Mind". People usually think about him as a bully or a prankster, but this speech was great. By the way, Ridley Scott is still waiting for his Oscar.
He did deserve to win for A Beautiful Mind, not The Insider. Although great, it was not as good as Denzel in The Hurricane, or at the level of Spacey in American Beauty.
João Solimeo About Ridley Scott that is shame disgracefull. One of the best directors of all time. Old scholl real man. Nowadays movies about transexuals gays and other freaks winning the oscar for nothing. I think Steven Spielberg make decision and play main role in Academy. For the last 10-15 years for sure. Maybe this is envyness thay dont like him. Like Leo di Caprio and Scorseze and other
Highly intelligent, articulate, authentic, intense young man - so very, very proud of this adopted aussie. This was an incredible moment for him, and all of Australia.
Dead right! That was an amazing film. As these topics are talked about more these days, l find myself thinking back to that story. Remember he had that temper tantram, and through a telephone at a hotel receptionist, not long before the oscars. They gave it to Denzil Washington, which was pretty clever, as he is very popular, and the first [l think] African American male to win it. How could anybody protest about that?
juie anderson No, he didn't win for A BEAUTIFUL MIND, which was strange because he had won all the precursors (Critics Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA). Clearly, he was the favorite to win. But at the BAFTAs Crowe roughed up the TV executive who cut his speech short, before Crowe read a poem he had prepared. www.theguardian.com/media/2002/feb/26/broadcasting Also, Julia Roberts (the previous year's Best Actress winner) was campaigning hard on Denzel Washington'g behalf. allymayful, it's not true that he was the first black actor to win Best Actor (Sidney Poitier achieved this feat back in 1963 for LILIES OF THE FIELD), but no other black actor had won that category since, and Roberts was going around saying that she couldn't live in a world where Washington didn't have a Best Actor Oscar. (He did have one for Supporting Actor for 1989's GLORY.) www.people.com/people/article/0,,623605,00.html So, I think those two things contributed greatly to Crowe's loss. I think if he hadn't roughed up that TV executive, he still would've won albeit by a smaller margin. However, that incident lost him a lot of votes (I'm sure) and Roberts' campaign for Washington swayed more votes. Not to mention that that night Halle Berry won Best Actress, the first time a black actress had won that category and the first time in history two black actors won on the same night, plus Sidney Poitier getting his Honorary Oscar the same evening. It makes you think if the Academy was trying to make a statement, especially since Jesse Jackson et al., had been complaining recently that the Academy eschewed black actors and up to that point only 6 black actors (including Hattie McDaniel, Louis Gossett, Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, and Cuba Gooding, Jr.) had won in the Academy's then 74 years.
Thanks a million. You've filled in all the gaps. It was Halle who was the 1st. l had Sidney [my all time fav] on my mind. And yes, Russels intensity has got in his way, at times, but he is a very decent man.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in bringing this movie to us. One of my favorite movies of all time. I am visiting Italy in a few weeks and am going to visit Tuscany where they filmed the final scene.
Alex Treviño -- Jack is not of "our time" in terms of generational actors. Nor Pacino or DeNiro for that matter. That's how I look at it anyway. And it's pretty easy to think Crowe over Hoffman for Best Actor in 2005. Very easy. The fact he wasn't even nominated shows the politics and bias they had for him at the time.
Cinderella Man was flawless. His acting… well… just as Mae said early in the movie, every time he got hit it felt like I was getting hit too. Personally, I think this movie was great, and he was flipping awesome in it, but Joaquin deserved the Oscar more than he did. He did deserve one for Cinderella Man and maybe even Les Misérables. (Keep in mind I have not yet seen A Beautiful Mind so that's why I offered no comment on that point.)
I agree with you that Russell Crowe should have won three awards. A lot of people said he should have won the year before Gladitor for his part in the movie about 60 minutes & the coverup re cigarettes (can't remember the name of the movie at the moment). I believe he deserved his win for Gladitor (some people think he it got because he didn't get it the year before & should have). He certainly should have won for Beautiful Mind! Everyone else did in that movie. When people were voting for the oscar Russell Crowe did a couple of stupid things out in public, and I believe it cost him the oscar. Since then his movie career really hasn't been that great. He needs to find a great part again if possible.
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