Joaquin Phoenix took home the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday night, using his speech to talk about fighting against injustice, second chances and humanity while also honoring his late brother, River Phoenix.
The actor took the stage at the 92nd annual Academy Awards to accept his statue for his role as the title character in Todd Phillips Joker.
Im full of so much gratitude. and I do not feel elevated above any of my fellow nominees or anybody in this room because we share the same love the love of film, he began his speech, before going explaining that his platform has helped him use his voice for the voiceless.
The 45-year-old expressed that hes been thinking a lot about the distressing issues in our country right now and the many different causes we all support. He told the audience that he believes that were all fighting against injustice and that everyone has become very disconnected from the natural world.
Were guilty of an egocentric world view, said Phoenix, before adding that we go into the natural world and we plunder it for its resources.
Joaquin Phoenix: "That's when we're at our bestwhen we support each other. Not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other to grow, when we educate each other, when we guide each other toward redemption." https://t.co/8kz7m5vtnF#Oscarspic.twitter.com/z9bymMr5bR
Phoenixs speech also touched on animal rights, and he specifically went into graphic detail discussing the dairy industry.
We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow, and then we take her baby... Then we take her milk and put it in our coffee, he said.
The actor continued on to say that the people in the room gave him a second chance in life, and told the crowd those chances when were at our best.
When we support each other, not when we cancel each other out for past mistakes, but when we help each other grow. When we educate each other. When we guide each other toward redemption, that is the best of humanity, he said, before tearing up to quote lyrics from his late brother, River Phoenixs band, Alekas Attic. River died in 1993.
When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric. He said, Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow, he concluded his speech.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has come in for criticism this year and not for the first time for the homogeneity of its nominees. Only one person of color was nominated in any of the four acting categories (Cynthia Erivo, for Best Actress in Harriet), and all of the nominees for Best Director were male.
The BAFTAs have already been very supportive of my career and Im deeply appreciative, Phoenix said at that awards show. But I have to say I also feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving dont have that same privilege. I think that we send a very clear message to people of color that youre not welcome here.
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