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8. The Show-Stealing Speeches

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Though the night's speeches were largely low on political grandstanding, there were a few winners who took the time to foreground important issues in both the industry and the world at large.

Firstly, as American Fiction filmmaker Cord Jefferson took to the stage to accept his Best Adapted Screenplay award, he begged Hollywood to invest more in lower-budget movies - namely, making 10 $20 million movies instead of one $200 million movie. Here here.

Later Jonathan Glazer offered some thoughtful words on the Gaza-Israel conflict while accepting the Best International Film Oscar for The Zone of Interest, and finally, 20 Days in Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov delivered a somber, devastating speech about the human cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine while accepting the Best Documentary Oscar.

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