Beatrice Straight Wins Supporting Actress: 1977 Oscars

Thanks, I don't know about anyone else, but I really feel like it's a privilege to be here tonight and I'll do my best to catch a key, you sold my script, no, I thought I'd seen the movie, you stole my strip. That was all me. I'm his power. You can discourage me, loser, show me what you can really do. Juggle my chicken coop until you know my real name, so the kids will love it. I just have to say one thing. Maybe I won't win anything. here tonight in the form of an Oscar, but I truly feel that it is an incredible privilege to be alongside a 100% certified legend and it is something that I want to treasure for the rest of my life.

Incredible, thank you very much, the

actress

is nominated. a performance in a

supporting

role by our Jane Alexander and all the president's men Jodie Foster and taxi driver Lee Grant and the ride of the Damned pay for Laurie and Carrie and features

straight

and red and the winner is Beatrice

straight

, it's very heavy and I am Dark Horse and thank you very much everyone, it is a great emotion for me and very unexpected, although I should have known when I had someone like Paddy Chayefsky writing and saying things that we all feel but cannot express and When we have someone like Sidney Lumet who makes you want to act forever and a producer like Howard Godfried, so how can I miss him?

But I know my mother would be delighted, she had great potential to be an

actress

, but she didn't think she should do it. so she pushed me and was delighted and Michael Chekhov, the great actor and teacher with whom I studied, who gave me love and respect for theater, which is the reason why we are all here, it is a great profession and we have to continue forward. I think about it all the time and we all do it and we all love it and I'm so grateful for that and for a wonderful 93 year old lady who lives here in Los Angeles who is seeing tonight one of our first female directors who directed Paul Robeson in Othello in London, Ellen Van Valkenburg Brown, brilliant as always, thank you and last but not least my husband who has put up with me for 28 years, thank you very much.