Patricia Arquette has won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in Boyhood.
This is both the first Oscar nomination and first win for Arquette, who plays the mother of lead character Mason in Richard Linklater's groundbreaking coming-of-age drama.
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Arquette began by thanking her "beautiful, powerful [fellow] nominees" and her "Boyhood family who I love and admire", before moving on to address the need for gender equality in the USA.
"To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation. We have fought for everybody else's equal rights. It's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America," she added.
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Arquette also thanked her parents, siblings, and ex-partners Paul Rossi and Thomas Jane for her "beautiful children", describing son Enzo and daughter Harlow as "the deepest people that I know".
She also namechecked "my friends who all work so hard to make this world a better place", and the "heroes, volunteers and experts" who support the work of her GiveLove foundation in Haiti.
Arquette has already won a BAFTA and Golden Globe for her role in Boyhood.
She beat Laura Dern (Wild), Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Emma Stone (Birdman) and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods) to the prize.
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Emma Dibdin is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles who writes about culture, mental health, and true crime. She loves owls, hates cilantro, and can find the queer subtext in literally anything.
