and the bafta goes to meryl streep
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i'll get there okay
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thank you so much
that couldn't be worse that couldn't
have done
oh gosh um somebody once said
i think it was margaret atwood actually
i always say it was margaret atwood but
i
i don't even know if she said this
but somebody once said
the fate of the well-known
is to be misunderstood
and
the ambition of this film
the iron lady
was to look at the life of the iron lady
from the inside out
and to locate something
real
maybe hidden
but truthful
in the life of someone that
we've all decided we all know everything
about already
and i'm
very proud of the film
and i owe so much
to philadeloid abby morgan
pathe
damien jones
uh
for sticking with this for asking
and expecting so much of me
i want to thank the soulful
jim broadbent
the divinely gifted olivia coleman my
beloved moths
all 300 beautiful actors and crew that
worked on this wonderful film
and to say that half of me is streep
but the other half is wilkinson from
lincolnshire so i come by it honestly
this part thank you very very much i'm
so grateful
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is awarded to
brad pitt for once upon a time in
hollywood
i hate to disappoint you all
but unfortunately brad pitt i'm also
very disappointed is unable to be here
tonight so to pick up the award on their
behalf is margot robbie
okay
brad couldn't be here tonight due to
family obligations so he asked me to
read his response for him
um okay he starts by saying
hey britain heard you just became single
welcome to the club
wishing you the best with the divorce
settlement blah blah blah he then says
uh thank you to the academy for this
extreme honor
he says he's always been a bit
intimidated over here given the royal
academy of dramatic arts and the titans
that have come before so this is
especially meaningful
he says he would like to thank producers
david heyman and shannon mcintosh the
wild and wonderful zoe bell rob alonso
and the rest of the stunt team the
lovely ariane phillips for his oh so
tight jeans i'd also like to thank her
for those um his old mate simon jones
and the one and only
quentin tarantino
he goes on by thanking you again and
blah blah blah blah blah blah bit much
really oh and he says um that he is
going to name this harry
because he is really excited about
bringing it back to the states with him
his words not mine thanks
uh
you know i'm so used to losing it's
quite a strange feeling to win but uh it
feels very nice but now our children if
you're watching it's not about the
winning um
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still feels nice um
i'm thrilled to be considered in the
same category as my fellow supporting
actresses and i'm not just sucking up
um you're all brilliant
um
my underskirt has got hitched up and
this is not a good moment
i think i should thank the royal family
frankly because they've done wonders for
my career
um
this year
i seem to be playing
queens with
ever decreasing head sizes um
next year will be pinheaded queen um
okay i know i got to be succinct
i need to thank uh i'm gonna really
really try and do this very fast first
of all can i just say that i have fun
and i love it and it's my privilege to
keep on working in this over-subscribed
profession and there are so many
talented talented people out there who
never get recognition so i'm incredibly
lucky to get this
and to get recognized and to get parts
and to go out and make a living by
getting dressed up and pretending to be
somebody else for the day and then
getting paid lots of money and then i
get an award for it so it's as good as
it gets
um
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um
thank you um i'll just say that i would
love at this stage just to walk off and
say i did it all by myself just like my
three-year-old but i didn't i've got a
few people to thank i've got to thank
all the producers it was all your fault
you started it
and i'm tom hooper thank you for not
cutting me for giving me all my
close-ups for making sure that the queen
mother wasn't totally eclipsed by the
between the brilliance the double
brilliance of jeffrey and colin king
colin you deserve everything you're
getting
and i'm jeffrey you really should be the
best supporting actress i know wherever
you are because you
really did have only eyes for
for you
um and finally if i finally finally
finally oh the people who look after me
melody coron brought adam isaacs shelley
browning i might never get this you know
again so i might as well just really
stretch that
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and then finally tim burton who is my
genius and thank you
for the big headed queen
and thank you for
well
helping me make the
eighth and ninth wonders of the world
that are our children
and then finally finally okay i'm really
really getting there
uh
finally finally we get all the awards in
this profession there are many groups
that go unsung i want to just dedicate
this to all the best supporting wives
around in the world existing
queen mother herself and and my mum
and there's no doubt that when my father
alive he would have given this to her
she was the most best supporting wife he
could have ever wished for thank you
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hello thanks very much befter this is
very very
cool for me
uh coming from the colonies uh we um
you know
we know it's been a hard week for you
guys and
it's been very nice to take a little bit
of your gold
back home
where it belongs
um
this is a really incredible night for me
especially to share it with the people
who made the film with me
in particular chelsea and stanley who
supported me right from the very
beginning when i started writing this
carthy neil who um who brought the whole
film to um to fruition and
28 27 26 25. if you put words and free
things in front of me i'll just read
them
um and that's really it i mean the other
people i want to have to thank is um
christine lennon's who wrote the book
that i adapted it's a fabulous book and
also to my mother
who introduced me to the book
and made me read and taught me how to
read and insisted that i read and
it's i love you for making me read
mum
uh anyway and i'll share this with
everyone else the cast and crew and uh
searchlight for believing in the project
thanks
thank you so much it's really big
um
i don't i do i do know what to say i've
actually written something down i do
know
um
to my fellow nominees to be in
the same company as you is such an
extraordinary honor
i think you're all the work you all did
was so beautiful um very shaky sorry
um
can't read it either
um all the producers obs
um fox and elements and and everyone
therein
well nadia and sandy and all of your
teams hi
we're having an amazing night aren't we
we're going to get so pissed later
i don't know i
i can't think of the words i thank you
enough for letting me do this
my most favorite time ever and the thing
i really want to
do is um emma and rachel
must keep it together um
not just for your performances but for
what you did after the camera stopped
rolling
um
and we've never talked about this and i
find it very emotional but um you were
the best and classiest and coolest honor
guard any any woman could ever have
and i love you and ems isn't here but
we love you too em somewhere in america
um
and
oh god what else i meant to say um
uh it's done that bit i think i've done
that bit um
and that yeah yes so this is
um
sorry i swear i'm going to go in a
minute um this is
for
um
not for the lead it's for a lead
and as far as i'm concerned all three of
us
are the same and should be the lead and
um it's weird that we can't
do that but um this is for all three of
us it's got my name on it but we can
scratch in some other names
thank you so much
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