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EE British Academy Film Awards in 2013 - Winners Acceptance Speech: Best Original Screenplay

10 February 2013
BAFTA winners at the Royal Opera House collecting their awards from a range of presenters at the EE British Academy Film Awards ceremony on Sun 10 Feb 2013.

Acceptance speech by Quentin Tarantino, Director of Django Unchained and winner of the Best Original Screenplay category at the EE Britsh Academy Film Awards in 2013.

QUENTIN TARANTINO:  Thanks a lot, this is really, really nice, this is really cool. 

First I want to thank my actors for doing just a bang up job with my dialogue, thanks a lot guys, I appreciate it.  I want to thank BAFTA for giving me this, I think you guys are a really terrific organisation.  And I am kind of famous for not joining organisations, however, having said that, I am actually proud to be one of yours. 

I also want -- one last thing about the script though, I would like to thank, in particularly, Harvey Weinstein and Amy Pascal for the fact that this was a pretty hot potato script, and for them to actually do it, pony up a lot of money to do it, and do it the right way, and then take that same script and go out and make a lot of money with it, that is pretty damn impressive; thanks a lot guys.  And thank you!

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