Thank you. Thank you, New Line Cinema, Mark Ordesky, especially, for all your script support along the way. And we want to say hi to our kids Billy and Katie for putting up so much with Mum and Dad working on this film all their lives, because they're only seven and eight years old. And I especially just lastly want to thank our wonderful cast who just got their tongues around this rather awkward text and made it come to life with such emotion and passion and heart. So thank you very, very much.
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Wow. Thank you so much to the Academy. You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night and we just appreciate it so much. Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, God, you did the most risky thing that I think anyone has ever done in this industry and I'm so happy for you that it paid off. Your collaboration and your partnership and your support just gave me the most incredible working experience of my life. To Barrie Osborne, our producer. Thank you so much, Barrie, for just being there every day and supporting us. To a wonderful cast, a wonderful crew in New Zealand, everybody that made my working days so enjoyable. It was just there when I needed it to be there and the actors were just doing such a wonderful job. I just want to thank two very special people that when I was eight years old I made films at home on a Super-8 camera that my mum and dad had bought for me. And they supported me all through the years. And they died in the last few years; they didn't see these films made. So for Bill and Joan, thank you.
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This is just unbelievable. I'm so honored, touched and relieved that the Academy and the members of the Academy that have supported us have seen past the trolls and the wizards and the hobbits and are recognizing fantasy this year. Fantasy is an F-word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with. I just want to say a very few quick words especially to the people of New Zealand and the government of New Zealand and the city councils and everybody who supported us the length and breadth of the country - Billy Crystal is welcome to come and make a film in New Zealand any time he wants. A special thanks to Peter Nelson and Ken Kamins, who were with me right from the days of "Bad Taste" and "Meet the Feebles," which were wisely overlooked by the Academy at that time. And I especially want to pay tribute to our wonderful producer Barrie Osborne. And I'd please like him to say a few words.