Frances McDormand may have won the Academy award for the Best Actress (for her role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) but she will go down in history for something else – her acceptance speech.
The actor not only recognised the women in Hollywood by asking every female nominee in the audience to stand up, she also pleaded Hollywood to tell more stories about women.
McDormand even ended her speech with two words – “inclusion rider.”
But McDormund is not the only one!
From Angelina Jolie declaring her love for her brother, to Leonardo DiCaprio speaking about climate change, the red carpet has seen it all!
Here’s a walk down memory lane on some of the Oscar acceptance speeches that have stood out in some way or another.
Frances McDormund – ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, 2018
Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘The Revenant’, 2016
Matthew McConaughey – ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, 2014
Jennifer Lawrence – ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, 2013
Meryl Streep – ‘Iron Lady’, 2011
Kate Winslet – ‘The Reader’, 2009
Halle Berry – ‘Monster’s Ball’, 2002
Angelina Jolie – ‘Girl, Interrupted’, 2000
Tom Hanks – ‘Forrest Gump’, 1995
Well, now that you have seen it all, you can go ahead and write your own Oscar-winning acceptance speech!
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