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• Penelope Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The award was presented during the 81st Academy Awards on February 22, 2009. Cruz ended her acceptance speech with a special message in Spanish, speaking to her countrymen of Spain.

• Fast Facts

  1. Award for: Best Supporting Actress
  2. Film: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  3. Previous Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winners Tilda Swinton, Whoopi Goldberg, Angelica Huston, Goldie Hawn and Eva Marie Saint presented the nominees
  4. 2008 Best Supporting Actress Winner, Tilda Swinton, announced the winner and presented the Oscar
  5. Presented on February 22, 2009
  6. 81st Annual Academy Awards
  7. Host: Hugh Jackman
  8. Network: ABC
  9. Additional Red Carpet television coverage on E! and TV Guide
  10. Location: Kodak Theater at Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood, California

• Nominees

  • Amy Adams, Doubt
  • Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Viola Davis, Doubt
  • Marisa Tomei,The Wrestler
  • Taraji Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Acceptance Speech Transcription

  ''This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted, because I might be the first one. Thank you so much to the Academy, I want to share this with my fellow nominees and with the amazing ensemble of actors I had the privilege to work with in this movie. Thank for you having written over all these years some of the greatest characters for women. And I cannot talk about great female characters without thanking my friend Pedro Almodovar for having made me part of so many of his adventures. Thank you, Bigas Luna, Fernando Trueba, for giving me my first movies. Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. I wanted to dedicate this to my parents and to my brother and sister, to my friend Robert Carlo, who is not with us anymore, and to everyone who has helped me from the beginning and you know who you are and I thank you from my heart.

  I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always on the night of the Academy Awards, I stay up to watch the show and I always felt that this was, this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival. So I thank you so much, and I have to say something in Spanish, because everyone? Todos los fieles de Espania ahora estan compartiendo este momento conmigo y sientan que esto tambien es de ellos, se los dedico. A todos los actores de mi pais, muchisimas gracias. (Translation) All of the loyal people of Spain, now they share this moment with me and feel than this (Oscar) is theirs also, so I dedicate to them. To all of the actors and actresses of my country, Thanks a lot."—Penelope CruzOfficial Site: 2009 Oscars

• Penelope Cruz Facts

  1. Spanish actress
  2. Birth name: Penelope Cruz Sanchez
  3. Born: April 28, 1974
  4. Birth place: Madrid, Spain
  5. Notable Film: Volver

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