“Thank you. I'm standing here in lieu of my fellow nominees who are just as deserving, if not more so of this moment.”

67th Academy Award Speech (1995)

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“Thank you. I'm standing here in lieu of my fellow nominees who are just as deserving, if not more so of this moment.”

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