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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Spanish actress
Penelope Cruz, who won Oscar's best supporting actress award for her steamy
performance in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", said Sunday night that the award is
an achievement for performers in her homeland.
"I said that I wanted to dedicate it to all of the
actors of my country and that I wanted to dedicate it to all the people who are
watching there at home and who are feeling that this also belongs to them," Cruz
said.
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Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who won
Oscar's best supporting actress award for her steamy performance in "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona."(Xinhua Photo)
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Cruz
said one of the first people she planned to call tonight was Woody Allen, the
director who hired her to play the role as Maria Elena, the ex-wife of Javier
Bardem's character in the Woody Allen film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Cruz was nominated for best actress in 2007 for
"Volver," but this was her first win.
"Has anybody ever fainted here? I might be the first
one," Cruz said as she accepted the award. She thanked Allen for "trusting me
with this beautiful character. Thank you for having written over all these years
some of the greatest characters for women."
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Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who won
Oscar's best supporting actress award for her steamy performance in "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona."(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
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She
described how she would always watch the Oscar ceremony while growing up in
Spain.
"And always the night of the Academy Awards, I stay
up to watch the show and I always felt that 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 ... to protect its
survival," she said.
To celebrate her first Academy Award win, Cruz said
she planned to sit through the Oscar ceremony, then find a great party.
"I want good music where I can dance," she said.
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Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who won
Oscar's best supporting actress award for her steamy performance in "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona."((Xinhua Photo)
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