truly an iron lady!
"Of the prizes left for old-fashioned talking pictures, only The Iron Lady won more than one award: for Makeup and, miracle of miracles, Best Actress to Meryl Streep. Twenty-nine years and 14 nominations after her last Oscar for Sophie’s Choice, the Academy’s most glamorous runner-up finally got to walk on stage a winner again, and provided the night’s one big upset; she had been expected to lose to The Help‘s Viola Davis. Thrilled and flummoxed, she said with a laugh, “I really understand I’ll never be up here again,” before gazing into the audience and adding: “I see my life before my eyes — my old friends, my new friends,” and recalling “the sheer joy we have shared making movies together.” Her speech was among the show’s emotional highlights. One of the others was Octavia Spencer’s joyous, tearful acceptance of the Supporting Actress award for The Help, which triggered the evening’s first standing ovation.
If Streep had a fellow wallflower at the Oscar prom, it would be Woody Allen, who had cast Streep in one of her first films, Manhattan, and has been, like her, an Oscar nominee in five consecutive decades. Allen won two Academy Awards his first time out (for Annie Hall in 1978), but only one more among his 18 nominations until last night, when his Midnight in Paris took Best Original Screenplay. (Averse to awards, or maybe just to acceptance speeches, Allen was AWOL from the proceedings.) The other writing Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay, went to Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash for The Descendants, once the favorite for the Best Picture and Best Actor (George Clooney)."
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her speech:
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