Penelope Cruz
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

NOMINATED ROLE
Penelope Cruz portrays the fiery Maria Elena, a divorced woman still locked in a complex relationship with her ex-husband.

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one. Thank you so much to the Academy. I want to share this with my fellow nominees and with the amazing ensemble of actors that I had the privilege to work with in this movie. Thank you, Woody, for trusting me with this beautiful character. Thank for you having written over all these years some of the greatest characters for women. And I cannot talk about great female characters without thanking my friend Pedro Almodóvar for having made me part of so many of his adventures. Thank you, Bigas Luna, Fernando Trueba, for giving me my first movies. Thank you, Harvey Weinstein. I wanted to dedicate this to my parents and to my brother and sister, to my friend Robert Carlo, who is not with us anymore, and to everyone who has helped me from the beginning and you know who you are and I thank you from my heart.

I grew up in a place called Alcobendas, where this was not a very realistic dream. And I, always on the night of the Academy Awards, I stay up to watch the show and I always felt that this was, this ceremony was a moment of unity for the world because art, in any form, is and has been and will always be our universal language and we should do everything we can, everything we can, to protect its survival. So I thank you so much and I have to say something in Spanish, because everyone&

ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY
This is the second Academy Award nomination for Penelope Cruz. She was previously nominated for:

VOLVER (2006) -- Nominee, Actress in a Leading Role

Penelope Cruz At New York Premier.

Penelope Cruz in New York for the premier of her new movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Penelope Cruz took some time out to to meet fans and sign some autographs. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" was written and directed by Woody Allen. The story is about two girlfriends who are on a summer holiday in Spain and become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

The movie also stars Scarlett Johansson whom Penelope Cruz had to kiss. Scarlett Johansson said that her on screen lesbian kiss with Penelope Cruz was

"the least sexy thing ever".

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