Sentences with phrase «prize acceptance speech»

In his Nobel prize acceptance speech in 1974, economist Friedrich von Hayek observed that one can approach public policy as either a «gardener» or an «engineer.»

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In case you've somehow missed it, the envelope Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read from when announcing Best Picture winner was the wrong one, and it took until midway through round of impassioned acceptance speeches for the producers of La La Land to realize they hadn't won the top prize, after all; Moonlight had.

In like fashion, perhaps Hemingway's presumed slap at the rhetoric of Faulkner's acceptance speech when he himself came to win the prize later on ought to be taken for what it's worth too — but no more.

Faye, 77, and Warren, 80, had announced La Land as Best Picture, the pair had been given the wrong envelope to announce the prize, leading Oscar producers to run onto the stage midway - through the acceptance speeches to unveil Moonlight as the real winner.

British writer - director Martin McDonagh, whose film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the best picture honor as well as the original screenplay prize, noted the timeliness of his movie in his acceptance speech.

McQueen gave a shout - out to John Cassavetes as a formative influence when he accepted the director prize, and during his feature acceptance speech offered praise to the film's two nominated actors who didn't come away victorious.

Yes, offering a $ 17,999 jet ski as a prize for the Oscar winner with the shortest acceptance speech (it turned out to be «Phantom Thread» «s costume designer Mark Bridges at 36 seconds) was amusing at first but it did little to encourage the litany of thank - you's to be any shorter or sweeter.

The cinematographer also joked that he had no interest in the evening's prize for the shortest acceptance speech, deadpanning, «I don't see myself on a Jet Ski somehow.»

What I liked about Allison's acceptance speech last night was that she wasn't there to pretend that she hadn't won everything already and would probably win the biggest prize.

In this special 2018 Oscars edition, watch Jimmy Kimmel «s opening monologue and some of the comedian's other amusing bits from the night, including a fantastic prize handed out to the winner who gave the shortest acceptance speech of the night.

Bennett Miller concluded his acceptance speech for the Best Director prize with a resounding «this is quite affirming.»

accepted that prize with wife Emily V. Gordon, who co-wrote the film, thanking her doctor from the real experience that inspired the film in their joint acceptance speech.

Guillermo Del Toro won his first ever Golden Globe award when he picked up the Best Director prize on Sunday night (07.01.18), and he refused to let his acceptance speech be ruined by the orchestra starting to play.

Guillermo Del Toro demanded more time for his acceptance speech while picking up the Best Director prize at the 75th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night (07.01.18).

In the end, McDormand collected her prize and made the greatest acceptance speech of the night, calling on every one of her female peers to take a stand and bring the house down.

During her acceptance speech, Catton, who at 28 is also the youngest author ever to win the prize, admitted that the book «was, from the start, a publisher's nightmare» and thanked her publishers for taking a chance on the novel.

In her acceptance speech, which was quoted in the Progressive, Maathai also acknowledged being the first black woman to be honored with the Nobel: «As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world.»

Oe Kenzaburo, the Japanese novelist and essayist who won the Nobel literature prize in 1994, said in his acceptance speech:

The hotel was mentioned by Oscar host Jimmy Kimmel as a prize for a free stay at Lake Havasu to any one of the winners who had the shortest acceptance speech, alongside a jet ski.

While Kimmel may have offered the prizes as a joke about the length of acceptance speeches, he went to the trouble of bringing a real jet ski on stage and even roped in Dame Helen Mirren as a way to show off the prize like one of Barker's Beauties.

When she won, she insisted in her acceptance speech that prizes were flawed and she would like to share the honour and the # 30,000 prize with the other shortlisted artists.

Most notably, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel prize in a 1986 New Yorker interview he said: