JAMES IVORY: Well, thank you. I thank everyone here tonight and especially the Academy for giving me this award. It means a lot to me. I have been here before, but never all by myself and never for having written a screenplay.
So I just also want to say that a film like this depends on a lot of people. But first of all, it depends on the actors, and it’s a wonderful thing. We were a wonderfully lucky group to have the actors that we had, who are here with us tonight (some of them), and I was lucky to be chosen for this by Luca Guadagnino. I need not have been. There were other people who could do it, probably.
So, finally, thanks all of you. It’s like a hiccup of nature that I’m standing here, really, in a way. So thank you very much, all of you, and thanks, Sony Pictures, for what they have done for the film.
