Thank You Speeches

There are a hundred interesting ways to express gratitude during the Oscars ceremony. Yet, every year we have to endure some of the most boring thank you speeches from the Academy Awards winners. However, the Oscars 2006 Awards function did present some interesting Oscar speeches. If you missed watching the show, you can catch all the action right here. Here is a page with some of the best thank you speeches of Oscars 2006.

Gavin Hood, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 2006
I just want to thank my fellow nominees who I've become deep friends with. We may have foreign language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They're about the human heart and emotion.

Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress, Academy Awards 2006
I am so blessed to have my family here tonight. My mother and my father are here. And I just want to say thank you so much for everything, for being so proud of me. It didn't matter if I was making my bed or making a movie. They never hesitated to say how proud they were of me. And that means so very much to a child. So thank you, Mom and Dad.

Paul Haggis, Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards 2006
I just want to thank those people who take big risks in their daily lives, when there aren't cameras rolling... when there aren't people there to applaud… and the people out there who stand up for peace, and justice, and against intolerance. So I dedicate this to them. Thank you very much.

Larry McMurtry, Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Awards 2006
And finally I'm going to thank all the booksellers of the world. Remember, Brokeback Mountain was a book before it was a movie... from the humblest paperback exchange to the masters of the great bookshops of the world. All are contributors to the survival of the culture of the book -- a wonderful culture, which we mustn't lose. Thank you.

Rachel Weisz, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards 2006
To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress, Academy Awards 2006
People used to ask June how she was doing, and she would say 'I'm just trying to matter.' I know what she means.

Nick Park, Academy Awards 2006
Just want to give a great big thank you to Helena Bonham Carter, and particularly to Peter Sallis who has been the voice of Wallace. He's here tonight, ladies and gentlemen, at the Oscars. He's been the voice of Wallace for the last 23 years and you've been an absolute gem, Peter and you've sparkled all the way.

Cathy Schulman, Best Picture, Academy Awards 2006
Thank you to all of the members of the Academy for embracing our film, about love and about tolerance, about truth. Thank you to the people all around the world who have been touched by this message. And we are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking, and stunning, maverick years in American cinema, thank you.

Martin McDonagh, Best Live Action Short, Academy Awards 2006
I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight, but I hope next time if they let you into the country.

Yves Darondeau, Best Documentary Feature Award, Academy Awards 2006
Looking out on these tuxedos tonight, it's like seeing the movie again. Thank you for this homage.

Rachel Weisz, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards 2006
Thank you so much to the Academy for this tremendous, tremendous honor. I share it with others, Ralph Fiennes my luminous acting partner. Fernando Meirelles our director who is brimming over with such humanity and our dignified sensitive producer, Simon Channing Williams, and of course, John le Carre, who wrote this unflinching, angry story. And he really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice. And they're greater men and women than I.

Michael Semanick, Best Sounds Mixing, Academy Awards 2006
I want to thank my mother for giving me unconditional support when I chose this crazy career. You questioned me only once. Are you sure you don't want to be a doctor? Yes, mom, I'm sure. I love you.