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Brendan Fraser's Emotional Acceptance Speech From the 2023 Oscars. So this what the multiverse looks like. My goodness. I thank the Academy for this honor, and our studio A-24 for making such a bold film. And I'm grateful to Darren Aronofsky for throwing me a creative lifeline, and hauling me aboard the good ship The Whale. It was written by Samuel D. Hunter who is our lighthouse.
Gentlemen, you laid your whale-sized hearts bare, so we could see into your souls like no one else could do, and it is my honor to be named alongside you in this category.
I want to tell you that only whales can swim at the depth of the talent of Hong Chau. And I started in this business 30 years ago, and things didn't come easy to me, but there was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped. And, I just want to say, thank you for this acknowledgement because it couldn't be done my cast — it's been like I've been in a diving expedition at the bottom of the ocean, and the air on the line to the surface is on a launch being watched over by some people in my life, like my sons, Holden and Leland and Griffin. I love you, Griffy. My manager JoAnne Colonna , Jennifer Plant, and my best first mate Jeannie. Thank you again, each one and all. I'm so grateful to you. Goodnight.
