The 76th Annual Academy Awards2004

Herself - Presenter:
Best Adapted Screenplay/Winner: Best Original Screenplay/Nominated: Best Director and Best Picture: Thank you. I can't believe I'm standing here. Thank you. Thank you to the Academy for giving me this honor. Thank you to my dad for everything he taught me. Thank you to my brother Roman and all my friends who were there for me when I was stuck at twelve pages and encouraged me to keep writing. And the filmmakers whose movies - I have to breathe. The filmmakers whose movies inspired me when I was writing this script: Antonioni and Wong Kar-Wai and Bob Fosse and Godard and all the others. And every writer needs a muse; mine was Bill Murray. Thanks to my mom for always encouraging us to try to make art. And thank you to Bart and Ross for helping make my script into a movie. And thank you to everyone at Focus. Thank you.