The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004 TV Special)

Peter Jackson: Self - Winner

Quotes 

• Peter Jackson - Winner: Best Director/Co-Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture : Wow. Thank you so much to the Academy. You're giving us an incredibly overwhelming night and we just appreciate it so much. Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, God, you did the most risky thing that I think anyone has ever done in this industry and I'm so happy for you that it paid off. Your collaboration and your partnership and your support just gave me the most incredible working experience of my life. To Barrie Osborne, our producer. Thank you so much, Barrie, for just being there every day and supporting us. To a wonderful cast, a wonderful crew in New Zealand, everybody that made my working days so enjoyable. It was just there when I needed it to be there and the actors were just doing such a wonderful job. I just want to thank two very special people that when I was eight years old I made films at home on a Super-8 camera that my mum and dad had bought for me. And they supported me all through the years. And they died in the last few years; they didn't see these films made. So for Bill and Joan, thank you.

• Peter Jackson - Winner: Best Director/Co-Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture : This is just unbelievable. I'm so honored, touched and relieved that the Academy and the members of the Academy that have supported us have seen past the trolls and the wizards and the hobbits and are recognizing fantasy this year. Fantasy is an F-word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with. I just want to say a very few quick words especially to the people of New Zealand and the government of New Zealand and the city councils and everybody who supported us the length and breadth of the country - Billy Crystal is welcome to come and make a film in New Zealand any time he wants. A special thanks to Peter Nelson and Ken Kamins, who were with me right from the days of "Bad Taste" and "Meet the Feebles," which were wisely overlooked by the Academy at that time. And I especially want to pay tribute to our wonderful producer Barrie Osborne. And I'd please like him to say a few words.

  Barrie M. Osborne - Winner: Best Picture : It's a great honor to be here. I started out in the business thirty-five years ago getting people coffee. And I wonder if the fact that I dated Billy Crystal's cousin so many years ago has anything to do with this. But it is really a great pleasure to be in such great company - uh-oh, I'm in trouble now - to be nominated with these four other great films, and after these many years to receive this award is really a thrill for all of us and we all thank the Academy. It's really a tribute to the talents of all the people, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that we win this award. I want to thank in particular my partner Carol, my beautiful daughter Danielle, and my eighty-seven-year-old dad who's out there in the back somewhere here to celebrate this with us. I want to thank also J.R.R. Tolkien, and also the fans that supported us on this journey. And of course Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, whose courageous venture allowed us to make this film and their support throughout the journey. And Mark Ordesky, who worked alongside of us throughout and became a great friend. And of course to Peter Jackson, who was never satisfied with 100 percent, but by his example of pushing for 110 percent, he inspired all of us to do our utmost to make these films and bring them to the screen. And finally, to Weta, who is in Chicago

  [Sports Café] 

  Barrie M. Osborne - Winner: Best Picture : in Wellington, New Zealand, and to the production team, who are in the Port Nicholson Yacht Club - it's time to celebrate.

• Philippa Boyens - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay : We grew up loving these books, we had no idea that we were gonna go gray trying to make them into movies. And we have so many people that we need to thank, but the first person we absolutely must thank is Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. Without him we wouldn't be standing here. I want to thank my parents, John and Jane Boyens, who gave me those books to read. My wonderful brother David, my sister Nicki, my beautiful children Calum and Phoebe. And Ken Kamins, Barrie Osborne, Howard Shore, thank you so much for everything that you've done for us. Most of all I want to thank these two people standing behind me.

  Peter Jackson - Winner: Best Director/Co-Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture : Thank you. Thank you, New Line Cinema, Mark Ordesky, especially, for all your script support along the way. And we want to say hi to our kids Billy and Katie for putting up so much with Mum and Dad working on this film all their lives, because they're only seven and eight years old. And I especially just lastly want to thank our wonderful cast who just got their tongues around this rather awkward text and made it come to life with such emotion and passion and heart. So thank you very, very much.