'Milk' Screenwriter at Oscars: "Very Soon, I Promise, You Will Have Equal Rights, Federally" [View All]

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Source: Asociatd Press

Penelope Cruz, 'WALL-E' among early Oscar winners

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer – 12 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Penelope Cruz won the supporting-actress Academy Award on Sunday for the Spanish romance "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," while the blockbuster robot romance "WALL-E" made off with the prize for feature-length animation. Best-picture front-runner "Slumdog Millionaire" scored in its first category of the night, claiming the adapted-screenplay prize for Simon Beaufoy. The Harvey Milk film biography "Milk" won for original screenplay.

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"Milk" writer Dustin Lance Black, who won with his first produced screenplay, offered an impassioned tribute to Milk, the pioneering gay-rights politician who was slain 30 years ago.

"If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours," Black said.

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