Viola Davis gets emotional bagging her 1st Oscar
Los Angeles
Feb 27, 2017
Third time was certainly a charm for actress Viola Davis, who
won her first Oscar after being nominated thrice.
Davis won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award
for portraying Rose Maxson, a devoted wife and mother who tries to champion
her son's ambitions against her husband's sometimes savage derision in the film
'Fences', directed by Denzel Washington.
Clutching the golden trophy to her chest, she got all teary
eyed as she thanked the film's team and her family for the honour that was given
to her on Sunday here at a glittering event, attended by the Who's Who of Hollywood.
While accepting the award, she said: 'Thank you to the
Academy. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential
are gathered. One place and that's the graveyard.'
'People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you
want to tell, Viola? And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories. The
stories of the people who dreamt big and never saw those dreams to fruition.'
'People who fell in love and lost. I became an artiste,
and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what
it means to live a life,' she said.
After her speech, the ceremony's host, writer-comedian-voice
actor Jimmy Kimmel joked that she got nominated for an Emmy for that speech
that made people cry.
Los Angeles
Feb 27, 2017
Third time was certainly a charm for actress Viola Davis, who
won her first Oscar after being nominated thrice.
Davis won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award
for portraying Rose Maxson, a devoted wife and mother who tries to champion
her son's ambitions against her husband's sometimes savage derision in the film
'Fences', directed by Denzel Washington.
Clutching the golden trophy to her chest, she got all teary
eyed as she thanked the film's team and her family for the honour that was given
to her on Sunday here at a glittering event, attended by the Who's Who of Hollywood.
While accepting the award, she said: 'Thank you to the
Academy. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential
are gathered. One place and that's the graveyard.'
'People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you
want to tell, Viola? And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories. The
stories of the people who dreamt big and never saw those dreams to fruition.'
'People who fell in love and lost. I became an artiste,
and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what
it means to live a life,' she said.
After her speech, the ceremony's host, writer-comedian-voice
actor Jimmy Kimmel joked that she got nominated for an Emmy for that speech
that made people cry.
Tags: Fences