The Oscars (2024 TV Special)

Charles Roven: Self - Winner

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• Self - Winner : Oh, my goodness. Wow. I think any of us who make movies know that you kind of dream of this moment. You know you do, right? I could deny it, but I have been dreaming about this moment for so long, but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever actually happen. And now I'm standing here and everything's kind of gone out of my head. The reason this movie was the movie that it was was Chris Nolan. He is singular. He is brilliant, and I'm so grateful to you. But as Emma said, this is -- the thing that's fantastic about our jobs is that it's about collaboration. It's about teamwork. And our team was just incredible on this movie, so thank you to all of them, both cast and crew. Thank you to Universal for supporting us. And I want to thank Rich Gelfond at IMAX and everybody else at IMAX for believing in this movie when it maybe didn't make that much sense to do so. Thank you to all the theaters. As a moviegoer and as a filmmaker that's why we do what we do, so thank you so much. And to my children, Flora, Rory, Oliver, and Magnus, who's not here tonight, thank you. And it's U.K. Mother's Day so I'm thinking of my mum who's no longer with us today, and my mother-in-law Christina who's here with my dad, so thank you. Oh, and thank you to the Academy! I'm so honored to be here.

  Self - Winner : I certainly want to thank the Academy. I want to thank Universal Pictures, Donna Langley and the whole team there. I, of course, want to thank my family and my wife, who always has my back and is, as all my friends know, the secret weapon of my life. And I also want to thank James Woods and David Wargo for trusting me to move this project forward. They gave me the book, which I was fortunate enough to give to Chris and Emma. And finally, just want to say that, I've had this amazing twenty-plus-year experience with Chris and Emma. Five movies over twenty years, and it's been one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. They're a fantastic team and just to be part of making movies with them has been completely thrilling. So, thank you so much.