used an acceptance speech to pay tribute to the late Heath Ledger. At Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Phoenix picked up the statuette for best actor for his performance instopping to pay homage to Ledger, who died shortly after making an iconic turn as the villainous Joker in“I’m standing here on the shoulders of my favorite actor, Heath Ledger,” Phoenix said.
The entire theme of his speech was paying homage to his fellow nominees, opening his speech with kind words aboutPhoenix, much like DiCaprio, began his career as a child actor and recounted that he was frequently pitted against the“There would always be two other guys that I was up against and we’d always lose to this one kid…every casting director would always whisper, ‘It’s Leonardo,’” he said, making the audience laugh. “You’ve been an inspiration for over 25 years to me and so many people.
JoaquinPhoenix best speech ever!
JoaquinPhoenix Best performance by a human being this year. And also best acceptance speech. He didn’t hire comedians to write him something clever (looking at you Brad). He was his true honest brilliant sensitive wonderful been-through-hell-and-back amazing self. 😍😿👏🙏💋💔
Ugh my heart!! You are always thought of Heathcliff Andrew Ledger 🖤🥺
Well deserved win.
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Joaquin is just a wonderful man
I truly got teared up when Phoenix mention Heath Ledger 😢
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