Winner acceptance speech by Cathleen Sutherland and Ellar Coltrane for Best Film
Winner acceptance speech by Cathleen Sutherland and Ellar Coltrane for Boyhood in the Best Film category
Cathleen Sutherland: Rick is really going to be mad about this. Thank you to BAFTA. This award is such an honour and it really goes to our entire Boyhood family. You know, I think that the heart of this film beats with the heart of everybody who worked on it, from our amazing cast to our fantastic crew and of course none more so than Richard Linklater, who poured himself into this film. Ellar wanted to say something.
Ellar Coltrane: It is definitely a shame that Rick couldn't be here but hopefully he would agree with what I have typed into this ridiculous device here. We get asked a lot if we expected the way Boyhood was received and the truth is of course not. The truth is it didn't feel like a movie for most of the time we were making it. It felt more like an exercise of collaboration and vulnerability and so it was really scary to release something so close to all of us to audiences who are not always as understanding as they have been most of this year.
But the beautiful thing that I have learned is when you make yourself vulnerable in a way you make everyone around you vulnerable as well and the fact that a movie like this, that is most interested in just the simplicity of human interaction is being recognised alongside such grand pieces of art to me means that life itself without anything explosive or tragic must be more exciting than we let on and I think that that is something we could all be reminded of. So thank you to the BAFTAs and everyone.
