Incredibly strong year for acceptance speeches!

Stinks for Boyhood, but I can't really complain. I'd rather two great films go head to head instead of choosing between Avatar and the Hurt Locker.

I don't often wish I was in the room to cheer an acceptance speech. This is wonderful. A thousand times over. Going to put this in my back pocket to share with my inevitably weird teenagers 10 years from now.

I have a serious amount of admiration for him. 7 or 8 years ago in Chicago he had a charity thing going to help NICU babies and get women prenatal care and stuff. I used to see the ads for it on the bus.

"When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different and I felt that I did not belong. And now, I'm standing here. And so, I would like this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different and she doesn't fit in anywhere. Yes, you do. I promise…

Since you included a list of Common's exes, I can only assume that the moment he started talking you did what I did and Wikipedia-d whether or not he was single. WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE HILLARY.

I hope that this post gets more stars than Laday Gaga singing Sound of Music. Come on people! So moving!

Amazing. It was a flawless performance. So nice to hear two guys so eloquently talk about the problems black men face in this country.

I support this. I'll be honest, I got mad at him and thought he was a sell out during his GAP campaign, but I forgave him when he appeared in Hell on Wheels. You can marry him if I can have at least one of his babies.

you mentioned chris pine and i have a very strong chris pine radar, this is the only purpose of this comment

As someone who has liked common for years, I am super pleased. He is so eloquent and just...GOOD. Common forevvvvver.

kickstarter for common to narrate every ivy league course?

I would listen to him read the phone book. And if he felt compelled to do so topless and pantsless, well who am I to stop him?

He didn't snub Oprah he just went to hug the guy who played Martin Luther King, he was the star of the film and he was probably just excited.

No he didn't he went back and hugged her.

His emotional response was jarring in its sincerity.

was i the only one asking "who the fuck is Lonnie Lynn?" tonight

I've been saying this for at least 10 years— 10 years during which I have aged and yet he looks exactly the same— but I seriously want to marry Common.

i would listen to an entire undergraduate program from common

That performance with the Pettus bridge set, followed by that speech.... flawless.