Oscar's File
Celebrating the best of acting voice for this year's Academy Awards
Penelope Cruz
Parallel Mothers:
“No matter how hard you try to silence it human history refuses to shut up."
Eduardo Galeano
Nicole Kidman
Being the Ricardos
“You know I did this show so Desi and I could be together. I had no idea it was going to be a hit." Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman)
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Aunjanue Ellis
King Richard
"Remember who you are. Remember where you came from. Stand tall and be proud in that." Oracene Williams
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Denzel Washington
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Banquo : "If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not" Act I Scene of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606).
He spoke to three witches who he felt would prophesize what 'seeds' would grow and what would die. He was in fact speaking about people where the witches prophesized that Macbeth would become King and King Duncan would die (Enotes 2018).
Abraham Lincoln famously used this quote when Secretary of State William.H. Seward told him that he had to choose between passage of the 13th Amendment or accepting a Confederate peace (University Press of Kansas 2018).
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Judy Dench
Belfast
"What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own." Granny (Belfast)
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Ariana Debose
West Side Story
Anita : [singing] "A boy like that who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind stick to your own kind! A boy like that will bring you sorrow - you'll meet another boy tomorrow! One of your own kind stick to your own kind! A boy who kills cannot love a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love and gets your heart! Very smart Maria very smart! A boy like that wants one thing only. And when he's done he'll leave you lonely! He'll murder your love he murdered mine! Just wait and see just wait Maria just wait and see!"
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Benedict Cumberbatch
The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog's title is taken found in the book of Psalms chapter 22: “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog."
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