Oscar Speech Advice

by Andre Soares | | Leave a Comment     

 

Halle BerryVia Jim Emerson’s "Your Oscar speech: How not to blow it" at MSN Movies. Below is Rule #2. It refers to Halle Berry’s 2002 acceptance speech:

Don’t Assume That God Voted for You
No incarnation of the Creator of All Things is registered as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and nowhere on the Academy ballots is there a category for Best Vessel Through Whom God’s Blessings Might Flow. (There remains some question, however, about whether Jesus Christ personally chooses the Grammy winners.) Winning an Oscar does not make you a special agent of God’s will or the divine favorite over your fellow nominees — or, for that matter, over the lepers in your category who must suffer the enduring shame of not even being nominated. (Didn’t Jesus say that the un-nominated would inherit the earth?) Do not demean the concept of the Almighty by implying that either you, or the members of the Academy who voted for you, are somehow helping to implement God’s Mysterious Plan so that you all can bring about the End Times. Even if it’s true, don’t. It’s just bad form.

 

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by Andre Soares | February 21, 2007 | Filed Under Actors, Film, Film Awards 

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