The 71st Annual Academy Awards

James Coburn:
I finally got one right, I guess. This is a love child.

Whoopi Goldberg:
I am the African Queen, some of you may know me as the virgin queen, but I can't imagine who.

Whoopi Goldberg:
You'll notice I always enter from stage left, that's because of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Whoopi Goldberg:
Who knew it was this hard to get a virgin off your face.

Whoopi Goldberg:
Let's just leave it to Beaver, but I didn't say who's... You know, I might not be doing this show again, so let's just go right to the edge and go over. Whaddya say?

Chris Rock:
Look at this crowd, it's like the Million White Man March in here.

Roberto Benigni:
"Thank you! This is a moment of ajoy, This is awonderful to be ahere. I want to dive in this ocean of agenerosity. A hailstorm of akindness!"

Roberto Benigni:
"This is a terrible a mistake because I used up all my English, my body is in tumult. Thank a you from the bottom of my a heart."

Roberto Benigni:
[after receiving his second Oscar] This must be a terrible mistake! I used up all my English!

Herself - Presenter:
Best Foreign Language Film & 'La vita ? bella' Film Clip: Sophia Loren:... And the Oscar goes to... ROBERTO!

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Editing: This is a great film. It was a wonderful opportunity for sound and we took it. It is our benchmark.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing: Thank you most of all to Steven Spielberg. I can't think of a greater compliment for a director than you inspire people to do their best work. And that was certainly true of the people up at Skywalker Sound.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Editing: Especially the amazing sound effects editors: Ethan Van Der Ryn, Terry Eckton, Frank Eulner, Karen Wilson, Larry Oatfield, and my fabulous assistants Lisa Chino and Andr? Fenley.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing: Thanks to the indispensable Shannon Mills. Thanks to Paramount, DreamWorks and especially Marty Cohen. Thanks to our great foley team: Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance. Personal thanks to my family, my mom and dad, and thanks to Cindy, my beautiful trophy wife. Thank you.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Editing: And Liz, and my girlfriend Liz.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Mixing: For a whole generation that has never had to experience war, "Saving Private Ryan" powerfully and nobly demonstrates the horror of what that is.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing: I came back; I have more thanking of Steven to do. Steven, your eloquence with filmmaking made this film an indelible experience both to watch and to work on. I want to thank everyone at Skywalker Sound again. The people of Todd-AO West, Richard Hymns and a wonderful editorial crew. Paramount, DreamWorks, Marty Cohen. The entire sound crew strived to make this film true to the memories and the experiences of soldiers. And we are very proud to be a part of it. Thank you.

Himself - Winner:
Best Sound Mixing: Thank you, Steven. Thank you to the Academy.

Himself - Winner:
Best Film Editing: Wow, thank you very much. I feel so proud to have played a role in the making of this historical motion picture. I'm so grateful to you, Steven, for giving me the opportunity to excel and grow as a person on this humbling World War II movie. Thank you. I'm also grateful to my family. Chickie, my wife, and Julie, Ken, and Adam and Allison Zunder, for their love and support during this war effort. And special good wishes to my brother and sister, Lee* and Mickey, on the east coast. I'm very honored. Thank you very much.

Himself - Winner:
Best Cinematography: Thank you very much. Behind the hand-held camera there are people, and that's Mitch Dubin, Seamus and Chris Haarhoff. And I want to thank you very much. I want to thank the producers; of course the actors; Steven, the great collaborator; my sugar bear Holly.

Himself - Winner:
Best Director & Nominee: Best Picture: Thank you. Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic. Let me just turn my eyes to Mr. Hanks who from the very, very beginning said to me, this is going to be something extraordinary. We weren't really talking about the film, we were talking about the experience of making "Saving Private Ryan," and he was right. It is one of the most extraordinary events of all of our lives, and the lives of all of our families, we were all in it together. Katie, for putting up with how much I've worried about this movie for the last eighteen months. Thank you for letting me be a neurotic at home. And all my children. I have two kids here tonight and they've never been to the Oscars before and I'm really happy I had a chance to make Max and Theo proud of their dad, and they're sitting up there somewhere. Thank you, kids, very, very much. And my other kids at home, Mikaela and Destry and Sasha and Sawyer, and Jessica who is here, too. This has just been an amazing experience and what I'd like to do is just thank very, very sincerely the families who lost sons in World War II. I want to thank the Niland family and the Sullivan families, and I want to thank all the families who incurred these tremendous losses. In this war we tried to show a story of one such family, and it turned up there were many such families, unfortunately. And Dad, you're the greatest. Thank you for showing me that there is honor in looking back and respecting the past. I love you very much. This is for you. Thank you.