Winners' acceptance speech by Damien Chazelle for La La Land in the Director category
DAMIEN CHAZELLE: Thank you so, so much. Thank you to the Academy. This is an incredible honour. One of the biggest pleasures actually of being here tonight is being able to be with and sit with so many of the people I made the movie with: Tom Cross, Linus Sandgren, Mary Zophres, David Wasco, Emma Stone, my producers, Fred, Jordan, Marc. It is just an honour to even kind of have gotten to make a movie with you and now to be able to celebrate this with you. I also want to give a shout-out to my friend, former roommate, collaborator of, I think, 12-plus years, Justin Hurwitz, for inspiring me and inspiring all of us with the most beautiful music I could have imagined. I want to thank Lionsgate, Lionsgate UK, for all your work.
And finally I want to thank Olivia. Olivia, my love, thank you for inspiring me so much every day. Thank you so, so much.
