ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris And Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass. Fink said, "We just want to say "Thank you!" We just brought a small quote from Walt Disney, who said "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM - Brad Bird for Ratatouille. Bird said, I also want to thank my junior high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, "What do you want to do with your life?" And I said, 'I want to make movies.' And he said, 'What else do you want to do with your life?' And I said, 'Make movies,' and he said, 'What if you couldn't make movies,' and I said, 'I'd find a way that I could.'"
"'What if movies didn't exist?'"
"'I'd have to invent them.' And it went on like this until we were sick of each other and I only realized just recently that he gave me the perfect training for the movie business."
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN - Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Byrne said, "Wow. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to Working Title and Universal. To Shekhar and Cate. And a huge thank you to my brilliant team and to my family."
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