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Well, women who act for understandable reasons
prefer usually to be called actors, not actresses.
That is until it is awards time and they are prepared to make an exception
and be nominated into the category "Best Actress".
And that's the category we've now arrived at.
In an ideal world, to present the award,
I would have been able to introduce last year's winner of best actor.
You know the star of Single Man, The King's Speech
and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a man so brilliant, so talented
and so successful, that we would have been bowled over by his presence with us.
But ladies and gentlemen, it turns out we do live in an ideal world
because behold, the Colin they call Firth!
Good evening! It's my great privilege to present a category
in which I've been grievously overlooked - "Actress in a leading role".
Let's have a look at the nominees.
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Viola Davis - The Help
"Just 24 years old, he skipped the best part of a person's life.
Anniversary of his death comes every year and I can't breathe.
But to you all, it's just another day at Bridge".
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
"The Right Honourable gentleman could perhaps attend more closely
to what I'm saying, rather than how I am saying it.
He may receive a valuable education in spite of himself".
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk about Kevin
And the BAFTA goes to... Meryl Streep!
I'll get there! I'll get there!
Thank you so much.
That couldn't be worse, that couldn't have gone worse!
Oh, gosh. Somebody once said,
I think it was Margaret Atwood, actually I always say it was Atwood
but I don't even know if she said this, but somebody once said,
"the fate of the well-known is to be misunderstood".
And the ambition of this film, The Iron Lady,
was to look at the life of the Iron Lady
from the inside out and to locate something real,
maybe hidden, but truthful in the life of someone
that we've all decided we all know everything about already.
And I'm very proud of the film and I owe so much to Phyllida Lloyd,
Abi Morgan, Pathe, Damien Jones for sticking with this,
for asking and expecting so much of me.
I want to thank the soulful Jim Broadbent, the divinely gifted Olivia Colman,
my beloved moths, all 300 beautiful actors and crew
that worked on this wonderful film
and to say that half of me is Streep,
but the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire
so I come by it honestly, this part.
Thank you very very much I’m so grateful. I’m so grateful, thank you...
Oh, Prince Charming tried the slipper on and it fitted Cinderella at once.
What a happy ending! It follows as the night...