and the Oscar goes to Anora sha Baker this is the third Oscar win for sha Baker [Music] [Applause] wow okay Quinton if you didn't cast Mikey Madison in once upon a time there would be no Anora thank you thank you so much and for all your incredible work um guys I'm going to take this time up here really quick to to to read something I'm very passionate about well first off thank you to the academy this means so much thank you to my fellow nominees your films are incredible and it's an honor to be in
this category with you I'm going to put this down um so we're all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies where did we fall in love with the movies at the movie theater watching a film watching a film in the theater with an audience is an experience we can laugh together cry together scream in Fright together perhaps sit in devastated silence together and in a time in which the world can feel very divided this is more important than ever it's a communal experience you simply don't get at home and right now the
theater goinging experience is under threat movie theaters especially independently owned theaters are struggling and it's up to us to support them during the pandemic we lost nearly 1,000 screens in the US and we continue to lose them regularly if we don't reverse this trend we'll be losing a vital part of our culture this is my battlecry filmmakers keep making films for the big screen I know I will Distributors Distributors please Focus first and foremost on the theatrical releases of your films uh neon did that for me and I thank you from the bottom of my
heart uh parents parents introduce your children to feature films in movie theaters and you'll be molding the next generation of movie lovers and filmmakers and for all of us when we can please watch movies in the theater and let's keep the great tradition of the movie goinging experience alive and well and one last thing my mother introduced me to cinema at 5 years old today is also her her her birthday um happy birthday Mom I love you thank you for everything and this is for you
