Acceptance Speeches at the oscars this year

Danny Boyle(SlumDog Millionaire)-Best director

"My kids are too young to remember this, but I swore that if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, so that's what that was about. Thanks everyone at Warner Brothers for passing on to Fox Searchlight. Just to say to Mumbai - unending, unseparable, unborn - all of you who helped us make the film and all of you who didn't, thank you so much. You dwarf even the sky."


Kate Winslet (The Reader)-Best actress winner

"I'd be lying if I hadn't made a version of this speech before. I must have been eight-years-old, and this [holds up statue] was a shampoo bottle. Well it's not a shampoo bottle now. I'd like to thank my family who are in this room somewhere. Dad, whistle so I know where you are. I'd like to thank my fellow nominees. These goddesses. Thank you so very much. I think we all can't believe we are in the same category as Meryl Streep at all."


A R Rahman(Slumdog Millionaire)-Best song:

"All my life I've had a choice of hate or love, I chose love and I'm here. God Bless"


Penelope Cruz(Vicky Cristina Barcelona)-Best supporting actress:

"It's not going to be 45 seconds, I can tell you that [and it certainly wasn't]. Has anyone ever fainted, because I might be the first one? I can not talk about great characters without mentioning my friend Pedro Almodovar. I want to dedicate this to my parents and friends..."

Kate Elizabeth Winslet

Well known and much appreciated for her character Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 American movie Titanic, Kate Winslet has won this year's Best Actress Award at the Oscars .She won this award for her character Hanna Schmitz in the movie The Reader.

The others nominated in the same category were:

Anne Hathaway – "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie - “Changeling”
Melissa Leo - “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep - “Doubt”

Her acting career began with the TV series Dark Season in 1991. From then,on there has been no looking back for this talentedactress.Another critically acclaimed performance of hers was the portrayal of her character Marianne Dashwood in the movie Sense and Sensibility in 1995 .

Kate Winslet was the youngest actress to receive 2 oscar nominations at the age of 22.Now at the age of 33,she still remains the youngest actor of either sex to be credited with 6 nominations.