This is the centre of the movie making world.
Right here, this is like ground zero.
She's the greatest designer.
She's known around the world.
How many Academy Awards have you won?
Four.
There. C'mon.
We're an enormous country with a very small population.
I think as a result, we're great travellers,
we're very open to the world.
The States are very welcoming of Australians.
We work very hard. We train very hard.
We take the work very seriously and we love doing good work.
I think something resonates with the American people.
Australian talent owes a lot to this country
and vice-versa.
We're the kind of people that don't really get into anything
unless we're really willing to give it a go.
That's received well in a country like the United States.
I've been around for a long time.
I've been to a bunch of these things.
They never give you these things when you need them.
They give them to you when you don't need them anymore.
But that's because they're not about us.
They're about the country and they're about
stumping up, and taking a few balls
and trying to hit a four or a six,
and that's a great honour.
So after many decades here,
G'Day USA.
In my career I've worked with a few actors now.
Ben [Mendelsohn] really does stand out. He's pretty phenomenal.
Ten, twenty years from now we're still going to be talking about him.
I don't think he's going anywhere.
I think he's just getting better as he gets older.
When it was proposed that I might receive a
Lifetime Achievement Award, I jokingly
thought to myself - a 'Lifetime Achievement Award?',
I've barely even got started.
I am very happy to be part of an Australian
culture that supports and reinvests into
the art and we're here tonight because
we're lucky enough to have had those opportunities.
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