{"id":332357,"date":"2026-03-16T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332357\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:57:10","slug":"next-year-its-going-to-be-a-waymo-in-a-tux-the-best-quotes-from-oscars-2026-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332357\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Next year, it\u2019s going to be a Waymo in a tux\u2019: the best quotes from Oscars 2026 | Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/mar\/09\/timothee-chalamet-backlash-opera-and-ballet\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ballet and opera snipes<\/a>: \u201cSecurity is extremely tight tonight. I\u2019m told there\u2019s concern about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities. You\u2019re just mad you left out jazz!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On AI: \u201cI am Conan O\u2019Brien, and I am honoured to be the last human host of the Academy Awards. Next year, it\u2019s going to be a Waymo in a tux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On politics: \u201cTonight could get political, and if that makes you uncomfortable, there\u2019s an alternate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/oscars\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars<\/a> hosted by Kid Rock. It\u2019s at the Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s down the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Netflix head Ted Sarandos: \u201cIt\u2019s his first time in a theatre!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Amazon\u2019s films being snubbed: \u201cAlso shut out? Walmart, Alibaba and Chewy. Why isn\u2019t the website I order toilet paper from winning more Oscars?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On healthcare: \u201cIn Hamnet, Shakespeare\u2019s wife gives birth by herself in the woods \u2013 or what we call in America affordable healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On hope: \u201cEveryone watching right now, around the world, is all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times. It\u2019s at moments like these that I believe that the Oscars are particularly resonant \u2013 31 countries across six continents are represented this evening, and every film we salute is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages, working hard to make something of beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amy MadiganAmy Madigan accepts her best supporting actress Oscar. Photograph: Ser Baffo\/Disney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting best supporting actress for her turn in Weapons: \u201cI was in the shower last night trying to think of something to say as I was shaving my legs \u2013 I\u2019ve got pants on, I don\u2019t need to worry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Kang, co-director of KPop Demon Hunters<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting the best original song award for Golden: \u201cFor those of you who look like me, I\u2019m so sorry that it took so long to see us in a movie like this, but it is here. That means the next generations don\u2019t have to go longing \u2026 This is for Korea and Koreans everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rachel McAdams<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Paying tribute to the late Diane Keaton during the show\u2019s In Memoriam section: \u201cShe wore so many hats, literally and figuratively, actress, artist, author, activist, but no hat more important to her than being a mother to her two children. She meant so much to so many of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Javier Bardem<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Presenting the Oscar for international film: \u201cNo to war. And free Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul Thomas Anderson<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting the award for best director after 11 total Oscar nominations in previous years: \u201cYou make a guy work hard for one of these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On winning: \u201cThere will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it, but there is no question at the pleasure of having it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessie BuckleyJessie Buckley becomes the first Irish winner of best actress. Photograph: Gilbert Flores\/Penske Media\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting the award for best actress: \u201cMy family, my Irish family, they\u2019re all here. Ireland bought them flights!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Thanking her husband: \u201cYou. Fred. I love you, man. I love you. You\u2019re the most incredible dad, you\u2019re my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On mothers: \u201cIt\u2019s Mothers\u2019 Day in the UK \u2026 I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother\u2019s heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael B Jordan<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting the Oscar for best actor: \u201cYeah mama, what\u2019s up! Y\u2019all know how I feel about my mother. And my father\u2019s here. My dad flew here from Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On the lineage of Black acting winners: \u201cI stand here because of the people that came before me. Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith. And to be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys \u2026 thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael B Jordan gets emotional as he accepts the award for best actor. Photograph: Mike Blake\/ReutersDavid Borenstein, director of Mr Nobody Against Putin<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Accepting the Oscar for best documentary: \u201cMr Nobody Against Putin is about how to lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity. When we act complicit when a government murders on the street of our major cities. When we don\u2019t say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kieran Culkin<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Presenting the Oscar for best supporting actor: \u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here this evening. Or \u2026 didn\u2019t want to. So I\u2019ll be accepting the award on his behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Presenting the Oscars for best costume design and best makeup and hairstyling:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hathaway: Anna, just curious, what do you think of my dress tonight?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Wintour: \u2026 And the nominees are \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Read more about the 2026 Oscars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conan O\u2019Brien On Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s ballet and opera snipes: \u201cSecurity is extremely tight tonight. 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