Transcript (en)

Music Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Rick Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please. Please. Thank you. Thank you. Could you double check the envelope? Thank you. I mean, I'm overwhelmed with this honor with the Academy and also the honor of being presented by my old old friends. We go back 37 years. I'm so moved. I'm so moved. I've got to thank Warner Brothers, Alan Horn, and Dan, and Jeff, and I've got to thank producers Brad Graham Graham King and Mac Brown and my old friend Joe Reedy for working for 20 years and Rick Yohn and John Lesher and Chris Donnelly and Ari Emanuel and that crazy script by Bill Monaghan got me in all this trouble in the first place and Andrew Law's original film from Hong Kong, the wonderful Asian cinema, and Michael Ballhaus on camera, and Howard Shore's wonderful score, and my old good friend Thelma Schoonmaker. Ellen Lewis for her casting, and so much of this belongs to the cast, I can't tell you, Jack Nicholson for his courage and his inspiration. Leo DiCaprio, six and a half years work we've done together. I hope another 12, another 15. Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Ray Winstone, and Vera Farmiga, and Marty Sheen. I just want to say too that so many people over the years have been wishing this for me. Strangers, you know, I go, I'm walking in the street, people say something to me. I go in a doctor's office, I go in a whatever, elevators, people saying, I wish you I go for an X-ray, you see, you should win one. And I'm saying thank you. And then the like, friends, friends of mine over the years and friends who are here tonight who are wishing this for me and my family, I thank you, this is for you.