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"Christopher Plummer has become the oldest actor to win an Oscar in Academy Awards history. The Beginners star accepted his first ever Academy Award - the trophy for &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actor&amp;#039; - from last year&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actress&amp;#039; winner Melissa Leo.  Bowing to the crowd, who gave him a long standing ovation, Plummer gestured to the Oscar statuette and said: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life? &amp;quot;I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother&amp;#039;s womb, I was already rehearsing my Academy Awards speech... mercifully for you, I&amp;#039;ve forgotten it, but I haven&amp;#039;t forgotten who to thank - the Academy, of course, for this extraordinary honour, and my fellow nominees... I&amp;#039;m so proud to be in your company.&amp;quot; Plummer also thanked director Mike Mills and Beginners co-star Ewan McGregor, calling him a &amp;quot;superb artist, who I would happily share this award with if I had any decency - but I don&amp;#039;t&amp;quot;. He also paid tribute to producers Olympic Films, studio Focus Features and his daughter Amanda, &amp;quot;who always makes me proud&amp;quot;. Plummer finally thanked his &amp;quot;long-suffering wife Elaine, who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for coming to my rescue every day of my life. Thank you so much.&amp;quot; More from the Oscars 2012: &amp;gt; Oscars 2012: 84th Academy Awards live blog &amp;gt; Oscars: Academy Awards 2012: Red carpet pictures &amp;gt; Oscars 2012: Octavia Spencer wins &amp;#039;Best Supporting Actress&amp;#039; for &amp;#039;The Help&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Oscars should be won, not purchased, says Academy &amp;gt; Halle Berry cancels Oscars appearance &amp;gt; Oscars 2012: Academy Awards winners list in full Watch the trailer for Beginners below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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