Watch: Viola Davis wins Best Supporting Actress for Fences at 89th Academy Awards

Viola Davis won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences

Indo Asian News Service|Feb 27, 2017, 13:47:57 IST

Los Angeles: The third time was certainly the charm for actress Viola Davis, who won her first Oscar after being nominated twice earlier.Davis won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award for portraying Rose Maxson, a devoted wife and mother who tries to champion her son's ambitions against her husband's sometimes savage derision in the film Fences, directed by Denzel Washington.Clutching the golden trophy to her chest, she got all teary eyed as she thanked the film's team and her family for the honour that was given to her on Sunday here at a glittering event, attended by the Who's Who of Hollywood.[caption id="attachment_3305124" align="alignnone" width="825"]

Viola Davis arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Viola Davis arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, 26 February 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. AP Photo[/caption]While accepting the award, she said: "Thank you to the Academy. You know, there's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place and that's the graveyard.""People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? And I say, exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories. The stories of the people who dreamt big and never saw those dreams to fruition.""People who fell in love and lost. I became an artiste, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life," she said.After her speech, the ceremony's host, writer-comedian-voice actor Jimmy Kimmel joked that she got nominated for an Emmy for that speech that made people cry.

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