Brad Pitt goes political with first acceptance speech of the 2020 Oscars
Brad Pitt has been on a role with his acceptance speeches, but he eschewed the jokes to go political.
The first Oscar of the 2020 Academy Awards went to Brad Pitt for his supporting role as Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It was Pitt’s second Oscar and his first for acting.
Pitt was a lock for the award going into the night, so no real shocker there, but what was a bit of a surprise was his decision to go more serious and sentimental with his acceptance speech. He’s been on a roll this awards season with humorous quips, to the extent there is a running joke about his ghost joke writer, but rather than laughs, Pitt went for a political statement.
His speech (video below) included the following:
"Wow, thank you. This is incredible. Really incredible. Thank you to the academy for this honor of honors. They told me I had 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week. I’m thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it, in the end, the adults do the right thing."
He then went on to praise Tarantino, his character’s ethos (“look for the best”) and his co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. He also shouted out stunt coordinators, his parents and his children.
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