Leading up to the 2011 Oscars, we’ll showcase the past twenty years of Oscar Acceptance Speeches by Best Actress winners and Best Supporting Actress winners. (Note: In most cases, you’ll have to click through to YouTube in order to watch the speeches, as embedding has been disabled at the request of copyright owners.)
Best Actress Nominees: 2000
Annette Bening, American Beauty
Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds
Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart
Hilary Swank, Boys Don’t Cry
Best Supporting Actress Nominees: 2000
Angelina Jolie, Girl, Interrupted
Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich
Samantha Morton, Sweet and Lowdown
Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don’t Cry
Hilary Swank wins Best Actress for her performance in Boys Don’t Cry.
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I still find Jolie’s speech so creepy! It’s fine to love your brother…but the way she talks about him? Wow.
Still my favorite performance of hers, though, I think.
And, Hilary Swank was amazing in that role. Still happy that she won!