UPDATE: Winning speeches were selected on February 22, 2007.
…so many worthy entries that picking just one winner seemed as churlish as Judi Dench’s role in Notes on a Scandal. So the staff at NPR.org picked five winners, along with a few runners-up, and recorded them reading their entries.
… winners captured the spirit of the nominees’ characters, if not always their accents. The speeches were limited to 200 words, about the length of an Oscar speech. But we didn’t cut them off with an orchestra…
… the Oscars for Best Fake Oscar Speech go to…
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