2006 Oscar Speeches

At the 78th annual Academy Awards a galaxy of stars walked the red carpet. The event was an exciting mix of celebration and restrained dejection. Jon Stewart, the host of the Awards show, kept the tempo alive with his uncanny humor. If you love movies, you will enjoy reading this page of Oscar acceptance speeches. This page contains the best Oscar acceptance speeches from Oscar 2006 ceremony. May the best Oscar acceptance speech win.

Dolly Parton, Academy Awards 2006
It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

George Clooney, Academy Awards 2006
I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. And we, you know, we bring up subjects. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community, and proud to be out of touch.

Steve Box, Best Animated Feature Film, Academy Awards 2006
Somebody once said if you make a bad film, you make it alone. If you make a great film, everybody made it with you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Actor, Academy Awards 2006
My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

Howard Berger, Best Makeup, Academy Awards 2006
This is really an amazing life. It all started when I was a little boy and my mother read me 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak and at that point I knew I wanted to go live with the monsters.

Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress, Academy Awards 2006
Oh my goodness! I never thought I would be up here in my whole life.

Ang Lee, Best Director, Academy Awards 2006
I just had to do it. It told me so much about what love is about.

George Clooney, Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards 2006
I didn't really work on anything, because I thought there were four others who were going to win, so... strange.

Gustavo Santaolalla, Best Original Score, Academy Awards 2006
I'm so proud to have worked in this movie, Brokeback Mountain, a movie that once again showed us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that that we can be so different too.

Howard Berman, Best Make-Up, Academy Awards 2006
I'm just glad that Clooney doesn't do make-up. So it worked out well.