Celebs Who Thanked Their Partners in Oscars Acceptance Speeches: Ben Affleck, Viola Davis, More
usmagazine.comBackstage support! When celebrities win Oscars, they usually run through a lengthy thank-you list of names, but many of them also acknowledge a person not involved in the film: their partner.Thanking your partner from the Academy Awards stage is something so expected of Oscar winners that forgetting to do it can make headlines.
In 2000, Hilary Swank famously left her then-husband, Chad Lowe, out of her speech while accepting the Best Actress trophy for her performance in Boys Don’t Cry.The Pretty Little Liars alum, who split from Swank in 2006, later said he “didn’t feel forgotten” because he knew how nervous she was at the podium. “I felt bad for her because I knew immediately,” he told Larry King in January 2007. “I could see in her eye the second she was off [stage] that she realized that.
I felt for her more than I felt for myself.”The Amelia star got a second shot at a spouse shout-out when she won the Best Actress award again in 2005 for her work in Million Dollar Baby. “I am going to start by thanking my husband because I’d like to think I learn from past mistakes,” she said in her speech. “Chad, you’re my everything.
Thank you for your support. It means the world. I would never be standing here if it weren’t for each and every one of the brilliant people I had surrounding me, supporting me and believing in me.”A handful of other winners have gotten the chance to thank their partners multiple times in their Oscar speeches, including Mahershala Ali and Frances McDormand.
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