Mel Brooks: - 'Ba-bump! Ba-bump! Ba-bump!', Oscars acceptance 'The Producers' - 1969

14 April 1969, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Los Angeles, California, USA

Banter preceding speech between Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles

I want to thank the Academy of Arts, Sciences and money for this wonderful award.

Well I’ll just say what’s in my heart.

Ba-bump! Ba-bump! Ba-bump! Ba-bump!

But seriously, I’d like to thank Sidney Glazer, the producer of The Producers for producing The Producers.

Joseph E Levine and his wife Rosalie for distribtung the film.

I’d also like to thank Zero Mastell, I’d also like to thank Gene Wilder, I’d also like to thank Gene Wilder. I’d also like to thank Gene Wilder.

Thank you very much.

Charlie Kaufman: 'Thanks to the Academy ... 29 seconds ... 27 seconds ... that‘s really intimidating' - Oscar acceptance, 2005

27 February 2005, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, CA, USA

Thanks to the Academy ... 29 seconds ... 27 seconds ... that‘s really intimidating ... um ... ah ... I’ll try to look somewhere else ...there’s so many people who worked so creatively on this movie, and so I feel like this award is for all of them ... and I most especially want to thank Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey and director Michel Gondry and producers ... and I’m suppose to wrap up now, yeah no I don’t want to take my time ... I want to get off the stage ... so ... thank you.

HI to my daughter Anna.