ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Diablo Cody for Juno. Cody said, "This is for the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you guys and I'm learning from you every day, so thank you very much. I want to thank the Academy, Fox Searchlight, Mr. Mudd, Mandate, Dan Dubiecki, our incredible cast including the superhuman Ellen Page. I want to thank Jason Reitman, who I consider a member of my family, and I'm in awe of his talent as a filmmaker. I want to thank Sarah Self, Mason Novick who knew I could do this before I did. And most of all, I want to thank my family for loving me exactly the way I am."
BEST DOCUMENTARY, FEATURE - Alex Gibney and Eva Orner for Taxi To The Dark Side. Orner said, "We are so pleased and so surprised and so impressed. And I just want to shout out to Alex Gibney, the amazing director and producer who had the courage to have me make this film."
BEST DOCUMENTARY, SHORT SUBJECT - Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth for Freeheld. Wade said, "It was Lieutenant Laurel Hester's dying wish that her fight for, against discrimination would make a difference for all the same sex couples across the country that face discrimination every day. Discrimination that I don't face as a married woman. Sheila Nevins and HBO for making this film have a broadcast and a home on Cinemax later this year. To my husband Matthew Syrett, who took care of our children and held down a full-time job so that we could make this film. And to our incredible team in New York, thank you so much."
Roth said, "And to all our supporters and families who believe that even a 38-minute movie could change minds and lives, and our children who remind us about what's really important. And to Stacie, who's here tonight, who's really auto mechanic by day but hero in life who always did what was right. And she's here tonight. So thank you so much."
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY - for Robert Elswit There Will Be Blood. Elswit said, "John Toll, who won this a number of years ago said that the production designer on his movie, that 50% of it belonged to him. Well, 80% belongs to Jack Fisk and his production crew. And David Crank and Dylan Tichenor. Really belongs to Paul. That this is his imagination and his energy and his extraordinary vision. It sort of enabled us to create the world. We're really all standing on the shoulders, we know this, of Daniel Day-Lewis."
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