Los Angeles, Feb 25: Stars, filmmakers and movie moguls gathered at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday for the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Here are some selected quotes from the Oscars show.
"We`re really thrilled to have received it, and we`re very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox."
Joel Coen, on receiving the best director Oscar with his brother Ethan for "No Country For Old Men."
"I think whatever success we`ve had in this area has been entirely attributable to how selective we are. We`ve only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy."
Joel Coen, who also shared the adapted screenplay Oscar with Ethan.
"That`s the closest I`ll ever come to getting a knighthood."
Daniel Day-Lewis, on receiving his best actor award for "There Will Be Blood" from actress Helen Mirren, who famously played Queen Elizabeth in "The Queen."
"Since November, we`ve been on the trail. You then have to run a popularity contest and go on a campaign trail, you could go around kissing babies and end up feeling a complete fraud."
Day-Lewis, on the promotional campaign for his movie in the run-up to the Oscars.
"I`m totally overwhelmed with joy and sparkles and fireworks and everything that goes like `boom boom boom`."
French actress Marion Cotillard, to reporters backstage after being awarded the Oscar for her lead role as Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose."
"I`m a very big fan of Peter Sellers. I wanted to marry him when I was a child."
Cotillard
"Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that and put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head."
Spanish actor Javier Bardem, winner for his supporting role in "No Country For Old Men."
"You could tell me my dress fell off and I`d believe you. Don`t be cruel."
Tilda Swinton, describing her surprise after receiving the best supporting actress Oscar for "Michael Clayton."
"And George Clooney, you know the seriousness and the dedication to your art. Seeing you climbed into that rubber bat suit from `Batman and Robin`, the one with the nipples, every morning under your costume -- on the set, off the set, hanging upside down at lunch. You rock, man. Thank you."
Tilda Swinton, addressing her "Michael Clayton" co-star.
"Getting a text from Bono is the biggest thing that can happen to an Irishman."
Glen Hansard, describing how the U2 singer congratulated him by mobile phone text message on his Oscar for best song.
"There are two pregnant women at the Oscars but the night is still young. Jack (Nicholson) is here, so we`ll tally at the end of the night."
Oscars host Jon Stewart
"Does this town need a hug? What happened? `No Country For Old Men,` `Sweeney Todd,` `There Will be Blood` -- all I can say is thank God for teen pregnancy."
Stewart
"A moving story of a woman who forgets her husband. Hillary Clinton called it the feel-good movie of the year."
Stewart, describing the Oscar-nominated movie "Away From Her," about a woman with Alzheimer`s disease.
Bureau Report
