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" Jared Leto has won his first Academy Award for Dallas Buyers Club.      The actor and musician, whose role as transgender woman Rayon is his first big screen outing in four years, held off competition from Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), Bradley Cooper (American Hustle) and Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) to take home the Oscar.  Leto paid an emotional tribute to his mother and the &amp;quot;36 million people who&amp;#039;ve lost their battle to AIDS&amp;quot; in his acceptance speech. &amp;quot;To my fellow nominees, I&amp;#039;m so proud to share this journey with you. I&amp;#039;m in awe and have so much respect for you all,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mum, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children.      &amp;quot;She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother, and she&amp;#039;s here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mum. Thank you for teaching me to dream.&amp;quot; The 42-year-old also mentioned the ongoing crises in Ukraine and Venezuela, telling citizens in both countries: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re thinking of you tonight&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;To all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say we are here and as you struggle to\u2026 to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible.&amp;quot; Oscars 2014: Academy Awards winners list in fullOscars 2014: 86th Academy Awards - live blog Oscars red carpet pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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