Best birthday present ever. LauraDern took home the trophy for best supporting actress at the Oscars. Details:
The category was presented by Mahershala Ali, last year's best supporting actor winner forAs Dern took the stage to accept the award, she expressed gratitude "just to be in this room with remarkable artists" including her fellow nominees, whom she called "sisters."
"Thank you, Noah, for your words and for your friendship in art and life with Greta [Gerwig, who wrote and directed"Noah wrote a movie about love and about breaching divisions in the name and in the honor of family and home and, hopefully, for all of us, in the name of our planet," she added. Backstage speaking with reporters, Dern continued to thank her parents. "I went backstage and people were telling me my mother was very moved, and that just makes me so happy. They literally got me here, and artistically got me here as well, so it means the world."
"I think if a couple, through heartbreak and divisiveness, can come together to raise a child, then this country better get its act together," she said backstage. "We have a planet to save. I pray we can all come together to focus on something that is not at all politics; it’s about our home."
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