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As was widely expected, Patricia Arquette has won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood. Patricia hasn’t had much competition in this category. Despite the talent she’s been up against, she’s won every major award this season. An unnamed Academy member told The Hollywood Reporter that she was voting for Arquette because “she gets points for working on a film for 12 years and bonus points for having no work done during the 12 years.” Much more than that, Arquette embodied the role in a way that made her seem exactly like her character; a struggling single mom trying to better herself while raising her kids and dealing with a string of bad relationships. Arquette’s character Olivia sometimes faded into the background, she sometimes begged us to pay attention to her. Either way she was completely believable. Here’s some of the text of Arquette’s speech, which was quite rushed but full of sentiment. She ended with a rousing call for women’s rights:

Thank you to the academy to my beautiful, powerful nominees… our whole cast and our crew, my Boyhood family who I love and admire, our brilliant director Richard Linklater, the impeccable Ethan Hawke, my lovelies Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Thomas and Paul thank you for giving me my beautiful children, Enzo and Harlo you’re the deepest people that I know, my friends who all work so hard to make this world a better place, to my parents [and siblings] to my favorite painter in the world, Erick White, for the inspiration of living with a genius, to my heroes, volunteers and experts who help me bring ecological sanitation to the developing world with givelove.org.

To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights, it’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.

We’ll have to see if Boyhood takes home either the Best Director and/or Best Picture statues tonight. I have my fingers crossed. Congratulations to Arquette on a well-deserved win!

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2015 Film Independent Spirit Awards - Press Room

The Writers Guild Awards Ceremony

Photo credit: WENN.com. These are not photos from the Oscars tonight; they’re from the Writers’ Guild and Spirit Awards.