- We're really live with tonight's big winner, Sam Mendes,
1917 and his cast, come on in. - Oh my god, congratulations.
- Thank you, thank you very much.
- Congratulations, wow.
- Can I feel it?
- There's another one, yeah, please do.
It's a little bit heavy.
- Oh my gosh, yes,
this is what it feels like to win Best Picture,
congratulations.
- Congratulations, you guys.
- Wow.
- I haven't held one tonight, do I dare?
- We've just been through an engraving bar.
- You have?
- Yeah.
- Oh, it's already engraved. - It's been engraved.
- No one else had theirs engraved.
- And we watched it being engraved.
It was a very touching little ceremony we went through.
- Now they can't undo it, it's really yours,
because it's etched.
Do you want to hold it?
- I do want to hold it, this is such an honor.
And very heavy. - It's surprisingly heavy.
- And I feel like I just don't need to go
to the gym tomorrow, yeah?
- So this is my favorite moment so far of tonight.
Well, I have two favorite moments.
One was your picture winning Best Picture,
because we were all rooting for you.
- Oh, thank you.
- When we talk about this film, we get emotional.
But also, our stage manager trying to direct you
on where to hit your marks.
- Yeah, it was very strict, she was very strict.
- And I'm thinking, "You know, they're actually okay
with choreography, from what I've seen from this film".
Because what you did, I mean, do you hate yourself?
That is the hardest thing that anyone has ever done
in a movie, to make everything look as if it's one shot.
It still blows my mind how you accomplished that.
Would you ever attempt to do it again?
- You know, probably not,
I think we should quit while we're ahead.
Well you know, the funny thing about making a one-shot movie
is that it makes you appreciate
what you can do with editing.
You know, it only works
if you're doing two hours of real time.
You know mostly, you want to jump time,
you want to have sub-plots,
you want to have different perspectives on things,
so, you know, you want to edit.
- Right.
- But it does make you appreciate what you can achieve
just with a simple cut, when you can't cut.
And so there were days when I think we all thought,
"Why did we do this to ourselves?"
But, on the whole, it seems to have worked out okay.
But the thing I really want to say,
and why this is amazing for us,
and it is amazing,
is that this movie goes wide in a week,
you know, whatever one says about award shows,
it's very flattering and everything,
but really it's about trying to persuade people
to go out and see this movie in the movies.
And this does it for us in a huge way,
so it's actually an incredibly exciting night for us.
- It is definitely one you want to see on the big screen.
- You have to do it, and we're so spoiled in Los Angeles
because the movie's already in theaters.
I paid for a ticket on a Saturday morning at 10 a.m.
in Century City, it was sold out.
And then you guys came on screen and broke my heart.
We have to talk about you two
and what you did together.
I mean, obviously he's a master,
and an award-winning master at that,
but what you guys did too was so special.
Tell me what was the hardest scene
for you to shoot in this film?
- Hardest scene, all of it (laughs).
- [Female Interviewer] Wasn't it ll one scene, essentially?
- (mumbles), no, you know what was really hard
was the No Man's Land sequence with Blake and Schofield
and the conditions that we were filming in
were pretty realistic.
The mud was similar to walking on ice,
all the equipment that me and George were wearing
were really heavy.
But, you know, it puts us in that world.
And you know, Dennis Gassner, the production designer,
did such a brilliant job of bringing the sets to life,
it was very immersive to be there.
- Oh, you know, I think the same as Dean here.
You know, that No Man's Land was tough.
But all of it, all of it was just brilliant.
Tough but brilliant.
- Brilliant, and then you turn the corner,
and there's Benedict Cumberbatch,
and then you turn the corner and there's Andrew Scott.
Favorite co-star?
- Oh, couldn't have a favorite.
I mean, I've always got a soft spot
for the Lieutenant Leslie scene, Andrew Scott scene.
It's one of those, just, I loved reading it in the script,
and so that was a special day
when we got to sort of bring it to life together.
- Well, congratulations. - Congratulations you guys.
Have fun tonight.
- Everyone at home, go see this film.
You will not be disappointed, it blew me away.
I'm so happy you got the big win tonight,
Best Director, I mean it couldn't have gone better, right?
- Well, it was pretty good. - Pretty great.
- I'll be going to sleep now.
- So can we direct choreograph you off the,
I know this is hard for you to follow directions,
but if you could just make your way through that way,
we're gonna shoot it as one shot
as you're walking off.
Does this make sense?
- One shot, you can do that.
I'm gonna give you your award back, congratulations.
Thank you for letting me hold it, that was an honor.
- I saw his eyes, he's like, "I'm not moving until
"you give me the award back".
Nice job, Chris.
- Please, congratulations.
- Congratulations.