Leonardo DiCaprio ..Once upon a time in Hollywood

Adam driver.. Marriage story

Joaquin Phoenix - Joker

Jonathan Pryce - The Two Popes

And the Oscar goes to .. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker

I'm full of so much gratitude now.

I do not feel elevated above any my fellow nominees or anyone in this room because we share the

same love that the love of film and this form of expression has given me the most

extraordinary life I don't know what I'd be without it but I think the greatest

gift that it's given me and many of us in this room is the opportunity to use

our voice for the voiceless I've been thinking a lot about some of the

distressing issues that we are facing collectively and I think at times we

feel or were made to feel that we champion different causes but for me I

see commonality I think whether we're talking about gender inequality or

racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights we're talking

about the fight against injustice we're talking about the fight against the

belief that one nation one people one race one gender or one species has the

right to dominate control and use and exploit another with impunity

um I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world and

many of us what we're guilty of is an egocentric

worldview the belief that were the center of the universe we go into the

natural world and we plunder it for its resources we feel entitled to

artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth we steal her baby even

though her cries of anguish are unmistakable and then we take her milk

that's intended for a calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal and I think

we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to

sacrifice something to give something up but human beings that our best are so

inventive and creative and ingenious and I think that when we use love and

compassion as our guiding principles we can create develop and implement systems

of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment

now I've been I've been a scoundrel in my life I've been selfish I've been

cruel at times hard to work with and ungrateful but so many of you in this

room have given me a second chance and I think that's when we're at our best when

when we support each other not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes

but when we help each other to grow when we educate each other when we guide each

other towards redemption that is the best of humanity

I've just um when you when it when he was up when he was when he was 17 my

brother wrote over this lyric he said run to the rescue with love and peace

will follow Thank You