Oscar Bait/Quotes

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I don't think we really need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's like, how many have there been, you know? We get it. It was grim. Move on. No, I'm doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust you're guaranteed an Oscar ... That's why I'm doing it. Schindler's bloody List. The Pianist. Oscars coming out of their arse.
Kate Winslet (Winner of the 2008 Best Actress Oscar for Holocaust drama The Reader), Extras


I'd like to thank the person who cast me as a blind, autistic, Parkinson's disease-ridden mute, for making this award almost inevitable.
"The King's Speech isn't so much a movie as it is an expertly filled-out 'How To Win An Oscar' Mad Libs sheet."