Thank god for YouTube; they reduced a possible four hours of marketing-saturated, passive boredom and bitchily self-indulgent fashion criticism into five minutes of clicking through “Forrest Whitaker” search results and two minutes of the most inspiring Hollywood speech of the last twenty years.

Sorry for the dickwad blathering right over the most important line; it seems that Oscar is a very controlling sort and has sent most of the video captures to the great bit bucket in the sky, where no doubt Lucy and Ricky are enjoying the bit where Helen Mirren performed “Borat” at this very moment.

Alas, YouTube is TheirTube and they have had this video killed. Found another for now.
The transcript still works, though!

Transcript over the jump

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Transcript

Thank you, thank you. Hang on a second, just a second. Okay.

I wrote something down. I thought I might happen to be a little overwhelmed, and I am. So…
Okay…

When I was little the only way I saw movies was through the back seat of my…my family’s car at the drive-in. And uh, it wasn’t my reality to think I would be acting in movies. So receiving this honor tonight tells me that it’s possible.

It is possible.

For a kid from East Texas, raised in South-Central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen. Cuz when I first started acting it was because of my desire to connect to everyone. To that thing inside of each of us, that light that I believe exists in all of us. Cuz acting for me is about believing in that connection and it’s a connection so strong, a connection so deep that we feel it and through our combined belief we can create a new reality.

And so I want to thank my fellow believers in The Last King of Scotland. I want to thank:
Peter, Jeremy, Andrea, Lisa, Charles, Kevin, James McEvoy, Carrie, Stephen, Fox, DNA, Channel Four. I want to thank the people of Uganda, who helped this film have a spirit. And finally, I want to thank my Mom and my Dad, I want to thank my wife Keisha, my children, my ancestors who, who, who continue to guide my steps, and God, God who believes in the soul, and who’s given me the moment in this lifetime that I will hopefully carry to the end of this lifetime, into the next lifetime.