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Best Actress

Thandie Newton
Thandie With Paddy Considine
Thandie Newton
Crash

Also Nominated
Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice
Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
Naomi Watts - King Kong
Renée Zellweger - Cinderella Man

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Best Actress
Thandie Newton
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Oh my god, I can't believe this! Just being given an award by Paddy Considine is enough, oh my god! (laughter) Truly, I'm so in awe of all the actresses in this category and thank you all the readers. So often you do something for what it's going to do for your career or how it's going to help and this ironically wasn't one of those times. Crash is a tiny film, they couldn't get it made for years and we did it because we really cared about the project, we loved the script and I paid to do it, I flew myself out and I dunno, it's won an Oscar and I'm standing here and my head is spinning and I can't believe it. So really what I'm trying to say is if you want to act or create or anything, just do the things that you believe in, that you love because look what can happen. So thank you very much, on behalf of the whole film, I really really appreciate this.

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