30 March 1992, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, USA
This has been such an incredible year and I'd like to dedicate this award to all of the women who came before me who never had the chances that I've had, and the survivors and the pioneers and the outcasts and my blood, my tradition.
And I'd like to thank all of the people in this industry who have respected my choices and who have not been afraid of the power and the dignity that that entitled me to. And I'd like to thank Ted Talley and Thomas Harris, Jesse Cornbluth and everybody at Orion the way it used to be and the way it will always be in my heart.
John Douglas and everybody at Quantico, the incredible cast and crew of The Silence and the Lambs that Jonathan put together and of course the reason that I'm here, Anthony Hopkins quid pro quo doctor and my Guru Jonathan Demi, not just for his talent but for his goodness I promise you.
I'd like to thank my team of people the only people I talk to every single day, my agent and friend Joe Funicello, thank you, and Matt Saber Pat Kingsley. I'd like to thank my my family and my family of friends, the trusted ones, the circle, and most of all I'd like to thank my mother Brandy, my friend, the person who has loved me so much and so well that she taught me an inimitable little mandate fashion To Fly Away thank you.
And thank the academy for embracing such an incredibly strong and beautiful feminist hero that I am so proud of thank you very much. Mike and Carol you won the bet!