The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010 TV Special)

Mark Boal: Self - Winner

Quotes 

• Mark Boal - Winner: Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay : Oh my god. Wow. Thank you, Academy. You honor me and humble me with this more than, more than you know. I was a reporter back from Iraq with the idea for a story about these men on the frontlines of an unpopular war. I thought it might make a movie. The result wildly exceeded my expectations, and that is thanks to so many people. To Summit Entertainment. To our amazing cast and crew. And most of all, to one extraordinary individual and visionary filmmaker, Kathryn Bigelow. This belongs to you. I would also like to thank and dedicate this to the troops: The hundred and fifteen thousand who are still in Iraq, the hundred and twenty thousand in Afghanistan, and the more than thirty thousand wounded and four thousand who have not made it home. And to my father who didn't live to see this, but inspired me and got me up here. He passed away a month ago. He would've really liked this a lot. Thanks, Dad. Thank you.

• Mark Boal - Winner: Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay : Thank you so much. This has been such a dream, beyond a dream, for all of us who have lived for so long with this story. And, you know, we had this fantasy of making our film our way with the talent that we hoped to have, and hopefully we would find a distributor and somebody might even like the movie. So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams. So thank you so much to each and every member of the Academy for really honoring us beyond anything we could've imagined.

  Greg Shapiro - Winner: Best Picture : Thank you to the Academy. This is really unreal and extremely humbling. We also have to thank our intrepid financier and fellow producer, Nicolas Chartier, who bet on this movie when no one else would. The incredible support that we got from CAA, particularly Joel Lubin, Roeg Sutherland, Brian Siberell. Our entire cast and crew, and our fearless director.

  Mark Boal - Winner: Best Picture & Best Original Screenplay : Our fearless director. And also, we owe a deep debt of gratitude, by the way, to Summit Entertainment and Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger for distributing this film. And thank you, Mom. I forgot to thank you before.

  Kathryn Bigelow - Winner: Best Picture & Best Director : I was just gonna reiterate that with Rob and Patrick, who took a very brave shot with this movie, and we owe them dearly. And perhaps one more dedication: To men and women all over the world who, sorry to reiterate, but wear a uniform. But even not just the military - hazmat, emergency, firemen. You know, they're there for us and we're there for them. Thank you. Thank you.