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  2. The best Oscar acceptance speeches of all time, including Ben ...

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    What makes an exemplary Oscar speech? That’s the million-dollar question facing each new crop of winners, who are frequently tasked with finding new things to say at the Academy Awards (live ...

  3. Oscar speech - Wikipedia

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    An Oscar speech is a public monologue given by a person who has just been awarded an Academy Award, an annual accolade given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor cinematic achievements in the film industry. Though speeches are common for award ceremonies, it is a particularly significant feature of the Academy Awards due ...

  4. Jane Fonda's Fiery SAG Awards Speech Was an Instant Classic - AOL

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    These examples brought her to the crux of her speech, in which she connected the work actors do to surface every kind of person’s fundamental humanity with the crisis facing a society where ...

  5. 2018 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Following the David Dixon award presentation, Louise Martin gave a speech about the conduct of the Games: Gold Coast 2018 will forever be remembered as 'the Games of Firsts'. When I spoke at the opening of the Games 11 days ago, I asked the assembled athletes to grasp the opportunity of the Commonwealth Games and create their own history and ...

  6. Olympic Games ceremony - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is the prominence of Greece in both the opening and closing ceremonies. During the 2004 Summer Olympics , the medal winners received a crown of olive branches, which was a direct reference to the ancient games, in which the victor's prize was an olive wreath .

  7. The story behind the longest Oscars acceptance speech ... - AOL

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    Garson, 38, was accepting the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work inMrs Miniver, a romantic war drama directed by William Wyle. She was only the 15th actor in the history of Hollywood to ...

  8. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Oscars acceptance speech 19 ...

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    The pair's excitement was clear when they accepted their first Oscars in front of the biggest names in Hollywood, with Affleck doing most of the talking during their speech. See photos of Matt ...

  9. 1988 Summer Olympics closing ceremony - Wikipedia

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    SLOOG President Park Seh-jik deliver a speech in Korean, concluded and thank everyone. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch deliver a speech in English, French, awards the Olympic Order in Gold to Park Seh-jik, President of the Seoul Organizing Committee and IOC President declare closed the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, and accordance with tradition, and call upon the youth of the world ...