- John Mulaney: Without sound, we wouldn't have been able to hear such classic lines as "You're gonna need a bigger boat", "I'll have what she's having", and "He was in the amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died".
- Al Pacino: Well, this is the time, uh, for the last award of the evening. And it's, uh, uh, my honor to present it. Uh, ten wonderful films, uh, were nominated, but only one will take home the award for best picture. And, uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will...
- [Pacino starts to open the envelope]
- Al Pacino: Here it comes.
- [Scattered laughing, Pacino opens the envelope]
- Al Pacino: And my eyes see Oppenheimer!
- [Confused and scattered applause]
- Al Pacino: Yes!
- [the orchestra enters after a beat]
- Al Pacino: Yes! Emma Thomas, Charles Roven... What happened?
- [Applause grows as the camera rushes over to the Oppenheimer crew getting up from their seats. The rest of the audience stands up as well.]
- Al Pacino: Wow. Oh wow.
- Jonathan Glazer: All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, 'Look what they did then,' rather 'Look what we do now.' Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization - how do we resist?