Here are the nominees Actor in the leading role... Antonio Banderas Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio ..Once upon a time in Hollywood
Adam driver.. Marriage story
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes
And the Oscar goes to .. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
I’m full of so much gratitude now.
I do not feel elevated above any my fellow nominees or anyone in this room because we share the
same love that the love of film and this form of expression has given me the most
extraordinary life I don't know what I'd be without it but I think the greatest
gift that it's given me and many of us in this room is the opportunity to use
our voice for the voiceless I've been thinking a lot about some of the
distressing issues that we are facing collectively and I think at times we
feel or were made to feel that we champion different causes but for me I
see commonality I think whether we're talking about gender inequality or
racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights we're talking
about the fight against injustice we're talking about the fight against the
belief that one nation one people one race one gender or one species has the
right to dominate control and use and exploit another with impunity
um I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world and
many of us what we're guilty of is an egocentric
worldview the belief that were the center of the universe we go into the
natural world and we plunder it for its resources we feel entitled to
artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth we steal her baby even
though her cries of anguish are unmistakable and then we take her milk
that's intended for a calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal and I think
we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to
sacrifice something to give something up but human beings that our best are so
inventive and creative and ingenious and I think that when we use love and
compassion as our guiding principles we can create develop and implement systems
of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment
now I've been I've been a scoundrel in my life I've been selfish I've been
cruel at times hard to work with and ungrateful but so many of you in this
room have given me a second chance and I think that's when we're at our best when
when we support each other not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes
but when we help each other to grow when we educate each other when we guide each
other towards redemption that is the best of humanity
I've just um when you when it when he was up when he was when he was 17 my
brother wrote over this lyric he said run to the rescue with love and peace
will follow Thank You