Best Awards Acceptance Ever?

[DoctorJones24]

British stuntman accepts lifetime achievement award...in a flaming suit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/entertainment_enl_1127814733/img/1.jpg


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4285702.stm

[Val1]

OK, that is pretty good.

Heretofore, my favorite has been Emma Thompson accepting a Golden Globe (I think) for Sense and Sensibility as if Jane Austen was responding to all the hoopla the movie (#) had received. I watched that two or three times.

Edit: The guy in the flaming suit is not the stuntman being honored. So, I'll still go with Emma...

[MLSNHTOWN]

The Rock can smell what that guy is cooking.

[Stogey23]

OK, that is pretty good.

Heretofore, my favorite has been Emma Thompson accepting a Golden Globe (I think) for Sense and Sensibility as if Jane Austen was responding to all the hoopla the movie (#) had received. I watched that two or three times.
[/font]
Can you explain a little further?

[chad]

http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/pics/events/pics/mtv9909.jpg Jim Carrey at the MTV awards.

Hands down.

[servotron]

The Rock can smell what that guy is cooking.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to MLSNHTOWN again.


AHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHA... I'm sorry, that's corny but extremely funny!

[jfcule]

The Rock can smell what that guy is cooking.
hehehehehehehe, i will have to spread some reputation around...

[Brainodo]

http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/pics/events/pics/mtv9909.jpg Jim Carrey at the MTV awards.

Hands down.

"There's some fine looking ********y out there tonight."

I can still see the shocked expression on Salma Hayek's face.

[Re: MTV's music selection] "Would it kill you to play some Foghat?" Had me in stitches.

I can also recommend David Niven at the Oscar's in 1973. He may have just been presenting an award as opposed to accepting but it's the dictionary definition of 'grace under fire'.
http://www.streaking.co.uk/relatednewsoscars1974.htm

[Cassano]

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2005/02/09/benigni3572.jpg

To accept his Oscar for best Foreign Film, Roberto Benigni walked on the rows of seats to get his award, rather than walk down the aisle.

[(TxT)]

William Holden's Academy Award acceptence speech for Best Actor in 1953 for Stalag 17.

Walks on stage, receives statue, says "Thank you.", then walks off.

[Motterman]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/entertainment_enl_1127814733/img/1.jpg



http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024D4S.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Whoa!

[Woody-99]

From http://www.muldermedia.com/emma/background/speech_globe_sense.html,
although it isn't half as funny as when you see it...

Acceptance Speech for Sense and Sensibility by Emma Thompson:

"Thank you very much. Good Heavens. Um, I can't thank you enough, Hollywood Foreign Press, for honoring me in this capacity. I don't wish to burden you with my debts, which are heavy and numerous but, um, I think that everybody involved in the making of this film knows that we owe all our pride and all our joy to the genius of Jane Austen. And it occurred to me to wonder how she would react to an evening like this... [Puts down statue on stage, reads paper] And this is what I came up with.

'Four a.m., having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding was not without its pleasures. Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children. The gowns were middling. There was a good deal of shouting and behavior verging on the profligate, however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintences. There was Lindsay Doran of Mirage, wherever that might be, who's largely responsible for my presence here, an enchanting companion about whom too much good cannot be said. Mr. Ang Lee, of foreign extraction, who most unexpectedly appeared to understand me better than I understand myself. Mr. James Shamis, a most copiously erudite person and Miss Kate Winslet, beautiful in both countenance and spirit. Mr. Pat Doyle, a composer and Scot, who displayed the kind of wild behavior one has learned to expect from that race. Mr. Mark Kenton, an energetic person with a ready smile who, as I understand it, owes me a great deal of money. [Emma breaks character, smiles a smile that lit up the room and says and audience laughs louder than ever before] TRUE!! [back in character] Miss Lisa Hanson of Columbia, a lovely girl and Mr. Garrett Wiggin, a lovely boy. I attempted to converse with Mr. Sydney Pollack, but his charms and wisdom are so generally pleasing, that it proved impossible to get within ten feet of him. The room was full of interesting activity until 11 p.m. when it emptied rather suddenly. The lateness of the hour is due, therefore, not to the dance, but to waiting in a long line for a horseless carriage of unconscionable size. The modern world has clearly done nothing for transport.

P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!!!

[Smiles, picks up statue] Thank you.

I also really laughed about Bill Murray at the Globes when accepting for "Lost in Translation" and Mary-Louise Parker at the Globes for thanking her newborn son for her boobs looking so good in the dress. Benigni at the Oscars was just great!!!

[bungadiri]

I can also recommend David Niven at the Oscar's in 1973. He may have just been presenting an award as opposed to accepting but it's the dictionary definition of 'grace under fire'.
http://www.streaking.co.uk/relatednewsoscars1974.htm
According to his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, Niven's acceptance speech for the (IIRC) Oscars was pretty funny too, if by accident. He stumbled on his way up the stairs to the podium and started out by saying that he'd tripped because he was "so loaded..." intending to finish it by saying "...down with good luck charms" but the audience assumed he just meant "loaded" and laughed so much he never got to finish the sentence.

[Doctor Stamen]

David Walliams accepting the Best Newcomer award from the British Comedy Awards a couple of years ago. I can't explain what happened, only hope someone can find a video clip.

Gywwith Poultry and Halle Berry should be shot.

[Crimen y Castigo]

http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/pics/events/pics/mtv9909.jpg
Jim Carrey at the MTV awards.

Hands down.

That is etched in memory. I still remember the cameras constantly cutting to him in the crowd earlier in the show and thinking "Who the hell is that?" As I've said before, I think Carrey can be pretty damn genius at what he does.

He also had a pretty good acceptance speech in later years (I think it was another MTV thing) when he was going on about how great his manager and agent were and "how they should thank their lucky stars they ever MET ME!"

heh.

[bungadiri]

Speaking of MTV awards acceptance speeches, Gollum's was excellent.

edit: here's a link

http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/6856

[billyireland]

That is etched in memory. I still remember the cameras constantly cutting to him in the crowd earlier in the show and thinking "Who the hell is that?" As I've said before, I think Carrey can be pretty damn genius at what he does.

He also had a pretty good acceptance speech in later years (I think it was another MTV thing) when he was going on about how great his manager and agent were and "how they should thank their lucky stars they ever MET ME!"

heh.
I always liked Nicholson's acceptance speech for the Oscar for Chinatown, where he was on location for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Still has to be Carrey, though...