Speeches, Surprises and Photos of the Oscars; What Makes Johnny Depp Fascinating and More

"War Horse," "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life," "Bridesmaids," and  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II," all were movies that didn't get any awards at the Oscars this year.

Here are the official Academy transcripts of the winners, and what they said backstage.

ONSTAGE SPEECH
Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer for "Beginners"

You’re only two years older than me darling, where have you been all my life? I have a confession to make, when I first emerged from my mother’s womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy thank you speech. But it was so long ago, mercifully for you, I’ve forgotten it. But I haven’t forgotten who to thank. The Academy, of course, for this extraordinary honor and my fellow nominees: Kenneth, Nick, Jonah, dear Max, I’m so proud to be in your company. And of course I wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for Michael Mills and his enchanting film, “Beginners,” and my screen partner of course, Ewan McGregor, that superb artist, who I would happily share this award with if I had any decency, but I don’t.

To all the producers, at Olympus Films especially, Leslie Urdang and Miranda de Pencier. All the people at Focus for their tremendous generosity and support, and not to mention my, haha, little band of agents provocateurs: Lou Pitt and his wife Berta, Carter Cohn, Pippa Markham, Perry Zimel, who’ve tried so hard to keep me out of jail, my daughter Amanda who always makes me proud and lastly, my long-suffering wife, Elaine, who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life. Thank you so much.

ONSTAGE SPEECH Animated Feature Film winner Gore Verbinski for "Rango"

Thank you so much, this is crazy. Someone asked me if this film was for kids and, I don’t know, but it was certainly created by a bunch of grownups acting like children and we just had the best time. I want to thank the real-world chameleon, Mr. Johnny Depp, and the entire cast for coming out and playing. To the artists, “Crash” McCreery, Jim Byrkit, Hal Hickel, Tim Alexander, John Knoll, everybody at BlindWink and ILM who put so much passion into every frame, and to the early believers: John Logan, Graham King, Brad Grey, and everyone at Paramount who really let us try something different. And to my beautiful wife and my family who inspire me every day with their smiles and laughter. It doesn’t get any better than this, thank you.

BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW  Gore Verbinski "Rango"

Q. So you developed this movie completely outside of the studio system completely by design. I'm wondering if you feel like there's a message in that for other people who are trying to do really off the wall pictures?

A. It helps when you're friends with Johnny Depp. I mean, we needed money and, you know, once Johnny said he was in, it was things started to happen. But we didn't go right to a studio we went to Graham Graham King who gave us enough money to do the story reel. So for the first 18 months we were just out of our house, seven artists and John Logan, long walks you know, barbecues in the backyard. It was great.

Q. You did something a little unorthodox in this film. You actually put all the actors in the same room and had them act. How much do you think that contributed to the success of the film? 

A. Well, I don't know about the success, but I don't know any other way to direct actors. I mean, it's I want them to act and react. I suppose it I think it made it feel like it was occurring and we encouraged line overlaps and we encouraged people to be out of breath. So we really were kind of paranoid of the computer making things clinical, and it so lends itself to perfection. So suddenly you had the feeling I guess in the soundtrack that there was a tortoise talking to a lizard, because Johnny was talking to Ned Beatty and they were actually playing the scene together. So I think there's there's something in there. There's some sort of DNA underneath it all. But ultimately it was just a fear of having somebody sit with a bit of text in front of a microphone. I mean, I haven't done that since I was selling sugar water, Budweiser, you know, or whatever, doing commercials, but that's so distant from, you know, getting a performance.

Q. All right. As a friend of Johnny Depp, can you possibly describe what makes him fascinating? What makes him deliver even in an animated film, something more than any other actor could? 

A. Well, I think every actor has a different process. He just, you know, really is brave in kind of pursuing the sort of awkward moment in trying to find something that's not really rehearsed, or to try to find a way to approach something. If the lines are in one way, he'll always come at it a different way. So I just, I think we have something in common in that sort of pursuit of trying to find working it until it's genuinely a little off.

Documentary (Feature) BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas  for: "Undefeated" (Excerpt)

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Q. Hi, congratulations. You guys dropped the F bomb on stage. What do you have to say to that? 
A. (DAN LINDSAY) Why did that have to be the first question? 
A. (TJ MARTIN) First and foremost, I'd actually like to apologize. That wasn't the classiest thing in the world. However, with that said it did come from the heart, and it was absolutely spontaneous, and there was no way in the world we thought this would ever happen.
A. (DAN LINDSAY) This is the most insane thing that's ever happened. It doesn't make any sense.

Q. Hey, congratulations. Even though my questions aren't even asked, it was sort of like old home week because last year Melissa Leo became the first Oscar winner to ever drop the F bomb. Are you trying to one up her or is this more about social media this year? 
A. (DAN LINDSAY) I think we just found a news story. 
A. (TJ MARTIN) We're known for the F bomb. This is the F bomb clan. When I say it came from the heart, I am genuinely serious. It was out of spontaneity and it was completely accidental. Our core focus, if this possibly were to happen, we really wanted to dedicate the award to the community of North Memphis and the individuals who we profiled in the film. With that said, there was 45 seconds, and 45 seconds goes really quickly and they cut us off, unfortunately. 
A. (DAN LINDSAY) The most important message for us to deliver was the people of North Memphis that literally this award is a testament to them. If they didn't trust us the way we did, we wouldn't be standing here. And Money and Chavis and Bill and O.C., our main characters, inspired us to make this film and, literally, we would not be sitting here without them. And it was, well, I'm sorry, standing there thank you, Rich it was heartbreaking that we got cut off and weren't allowed to say that, because that was the most important message we had.

Q. I don't think there's anything wrong with using the F word. 

A. (TJ MARTIN) I agree, thank you. Like I said it, it comes from the heart.

BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW

CATEGORY: Lead Actress
INTERVIEW WITH: Meryl Streep
FILM: "The Iron Lady"

Q. I wanted to ask you about what you said on stage because you said that it would probably be your last time there winning an Oscar? 
A. Yes, I'm pushing the tolerance.

Q. Maybe you don't want to give Katharine Hepburn a run for her money? 
A. Did she have more?

Q. Four. 
A. Oh, well, okay.

Q. No, but really, how did you feel winning this third award, and why did you think 
A. Oh, I was thrilled. I thought I was so old and jaded, but they call your name, and you just go into sort of a, I don't know, a white light. And it was just thrilling. It was like I was a kid again. I mean, it was I was a kid when I won this, like, 30 years ago. Two of the nominees were not even conceived. So, you know, it was great. And it was doubly wonderful because my long time collaborative colleague, Roy Helland, makeup man, hairdresser, he won too, and he won for not an outside he won with his colleague Mark Coulier, who is a great British prosthetics designer, but he won not for some, you know, monster making, but for making a human being, and it's very unusual in that branch that they give it to somebody who's just trying to transform people. And so I was really, really proud for him.

Q. Congratulations.
A. Thank you very much.
Q. And my question is, you won for KRAMER VS. KRAMER for the very first time, and then SOPHIE'S CHOICE, and now for IRON LADY. Which one of those was this is impossible question to answer, I guess, but talk about, you know, those different experiences in getting up there and accepting, you know, three times now, what was that you know, what was it like the first time around and the second time around and is this better in some way? 
A. I read a poem yesterday, and it had nothing to do with this but it said, one of the lines jumped out and it said, "It is strange to be here once as it is to return." So, that's true. It is strange, the whole thing is strange. I mean, if you're a human being, it's weird. If you are not, I don't know. Probably fun.

Q. Meryl, over here. 
A. Hi.

Q. You had mentioned that it has been a long time since the last time you won. Were you worried that it never was going to happen again? 
A. No. I have I mean, I have everything I've ever dreamed of in my life. And no. I mean, I think there's room for other people. Frankly, I understand Streep fatigue. And it shocks me, it shocked me that it didn't override this tonight. So, I was really, really happy but I don't take anything for granted, that's for sure.

Q. Thank you.

Q. Congratulations. In your very moving speech this evening, you mentioned jokingly we might all be sick of you in the future. I hope that doesn't happen, but it seems like you have the beginning of a second project in life with The Women's Museum. Would you talk a little bit about that? 
A. Thank you for asking about that. There is no national women's history museum, but there is a lot of history that is not written about the contributions of women in our country and around the world. And I think it would be really, really inspiring for people all around the world to have this fantastic center where you can learn the stuff that hasn't been written about women, because for many, many centuries, history was not interested in us. And yet, and our history is invisible and I think it would be great for boys and girls to go to a place where they could learn about the contributions of their foremothers as well as their forefathers.

Q. Have you paid tribute to the great work of Roy and Mark on your makeup? Can you describe that moment when you first looked in the mirror and saw the face of Margaret Thatcher looking back at you? 
A. Well, by the time we had achieved the right amount of less, and less, and less, I had become acclimated to not looking at Margaret Thatcher in the mirror and thought it was me, and that was important to me that I wasn't looking at rubber, that I was looking at me. You know, I sort, of at that point in the process of creating a character, I'd already sort of morphed in a way, in my head, and in my heart, with her, and her concerns and her interests, her zeal, her mission, her sense of rightness, and all of that. But honestly, when we first had the old age makeup on, I saw my dad. You know. I looked so much like my dad. Maybe my dad looked like Margaret Thatcher, I don't know. So, is that the end?

BACKSTAGE INTERVIEW
CATEGORY: Supporting Actress
INTERVIEW WITH: Octavia Spencer
FILM: "The Help" (excerpt)

Q. There's something that stuck out to me in your acceptance speech and you thanked your HELP cast for how they helped you to transform into your character. 
A. I said that? I don't even remember what I said. I'm sorry.

Q. Can you explain how did they help you to do that or you know what your cast really meant to you when you said your family really meant to you? 
A. Well, it's very rare that you have the type of ensemble that we had. You know, you don't get all the Academy Award nominee winners and Cecily Tyson, Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, Viola Davis coming together to do a project. And then you have the collaboration of Academy Award nominees behind the scenes. We just left our egos at the door and worked together as one beautiful unit from Emma, Viola, Bryce, Allison Janney. I mean, it was an award winning cast. So to be a part of that and to just sort of dissolve into the world that we were representing is something that we're supposed to do as actors but it was rare that we did it without judgment with each other.

Q: You originally spoke about overcoming fear in playing your role in THE HELP. What would you say to a young man or woman about to start in the Army and overcoming their fears? 
A. Well, I haven't really overcome mine. I'm scared to death right now. You know, I don't take what men and women in uniform do lightly. You guys provide us with the freedoms and the protection that we as citizens sometimes take for granted, so I don't know that I'm the person that can say because I I've not served in that capacity. What I will say is I think I guess I'm reminded of Emerson: Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. That's what you guys do for us every day.

Q. My question to you is, is that when you were walking up those stairs and by the time you got up there, a heartfelt standing ovation was given to you and you went into strictly emotions. What were you feeling at that moment and what would you say to any young girl who would aspire to be in your shoes tonight? 
A. Well, get a great designer because you don't know if you're going to be on TV or not. And really and truly I was just trying not to fall down because I had an incident where I fell at an awards show. This is one of those evenings in my life that I'll never forget. I hope it's the hallmark of more for young aspiring actresses of color, and by color I don't mean just African American. I mean Indian, Native American, Latin American, Asian American. I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty. You guys are supposed to go, oh, no, you are.

[Laughter]

There's crickets, guys, work with me here. Work with me.

No, I don't know. I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.