{"id":2330795,"date":"2026-03-16T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2330795"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:53:55","slug":"read-jessie-buckleys-full-best-actress-oscar-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/read-jessie-buckleys-full-best-actress-oscar-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Jessie Buckley&#8217;s Full Best Actress Oscar Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.0\">Jessie Buckley won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in <em data-node-id=\"2.0.1\">Hamnet<\/em> this evening.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.1\">She was the frontrunner going into the ceremony, following her wins in the category at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTAs, and Actor Awards.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.2\">In her speech, she discussed the power of motherhood and thanked her husband, daughter, and several cast and crew members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"4.0\">Hamnet<\/em>\u2019s Jessie Buckley is officially a Best Actress Oscar winner. The milestone victory comes after she won in similar categories at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69966781\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-golden-globes-2026-speech-transcript\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69966781\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-golden-globes-2026-speech-transcript\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Golden Globes\" data-node-id=\"4.2\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Golden Globes<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KqIxKDl1xjo\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KqIxKDl1xjo\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Critics Choice Awards\" data-node-id=\"4.4\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Critics Choice Awards<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kntX92dpL3Q\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kntX92dpL3Q\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"BAFTAs\" data-node-id=\"4.6\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">BAFTAs<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70561610\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-speech-actor-awards-2026-transcript\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70561610\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-speech-actor-awards-2026-transcript\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Actor Awards\" data-node-id=\"4.8\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Actor Awards<\/a>. During her speech, Buckley touched on what the project taught her about motherhood, thanked her 8-month-old daughter, and told her husband, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a69928091\/who-is-jessie-buckley-husband-freddie\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a69928091\/who-is-jessie-buckley-husband-freddie\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Freddie\" data-node-id=\"4.10\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Freddie<\/a>, that she\u2019d have \u201c20,000 more babies\u201d with him if she could.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Read every word of her speech below:<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<blockquote data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"body-blockquote css-oqe36b emevuu60\"><p>Thank you so much. This is&#8230;this is really something. Thank you to the incredible women that I stand beside; I am inspired by your art and your heart, and I want to work with every single one of you. To the producers who created this ship for us to stand in, and my shipmates for life\u2014Hilda, Jessica, Lindsey, Zack\u2014none of this is possible without you. My family, my Irish family, they\u2019re all here. Mom, Dad, thank you for teaching us to dream and to never be defined by expectation and to carve from your own passion. You, Fred, I love you man. I love you; you\u2019re the most incredible dad. You\u2019re my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you, I do. I do! And Isla, my little girl who is eight months, who has absolutely no idea what\u2019s going on and is probably dreaming of milk, but this is kind of a big deal, and I love you and I love being your mom, and I can\u2019t want to discover life beside you. Chlo\u00e9 [Zhao] and Maggie [O\u2019Farrell, the film\u2019s screenwriters], to get to know this incandescent woman and journey to understand the capacity of a mother\u2019s love is the greatest collision of my life. It\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day in the U.K. today, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother\u2019s heart. We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds. Thank you for recognizing me in this role. This is the greatest honor. I can\u2019t even believe it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Watch her speech below:<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-17\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"x\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-18\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">At the Actor Awards earlier this month, Buckley took home the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70561610\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-speech-actor-awards-2026-transcript\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a70561610\/jessie-buckley-best-actress-speech-actor-awards-2026-transcript\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"thanked the community of performers in the room\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">thanked the community of performers in the room<\/a> who had shaped her. \u201cI want to take a minute to see all these incredible, inspiring faces and souls in front of me,\u201d she began her speech. \u201cI have been categorically changed by so many people in this room and beyond. To get to work with my heart in my hand and stand beside my brilliant, daring friends who show me their heart, I mean, what a way to spend a life! Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">She then singled out her <em data-node-id=\"12.1\">Hamnet<\/em> co-star Emily Watson, crediting Watson\u2019s work in 1996\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHqZh-9AiCs\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHqZh-9AiCs\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Breaking the Waves\" data-node-id=\"12.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"12.3.0\">Breaking the Waves<\/em><\/a> as what sparked her own acting ambitions.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201c<em data-node-id=\"13.1\">Breaking the Waves<\/em> made me whisper to myself that\u2019s what I want to do, and to share those scenes with you in <em data-node-id=\"13.3\">Hamnet<\/em>, I will cherish that for the rest of my life,\u201d she said. \u201cYour wild imagination, your brave, untethered womanhood, your ferocious gentleness is a guiding light to me. And the best advice that you always give to me is to always go back to the well of just being human. Ground zero, babe. You\u2019re the realest of the real. I love and cherish being part of this community. I hope that I can continue to offer something meaningful back. Thank you very much. This is such a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Buckley was <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69225685\/jessie-buckley-elle-women-in-hollywood-interview-2025\/\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a69225685\/jessie-buckley-elle-women-in-hollywood-interview-2025\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"one of ELLE\u2019s 2025 Women in Hollywood honorees\" data-node-id=\"14.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">one of ELLE\u2019s 2025 Women in Hollywood honorees<\/a> and spoke in her interview about the other actresses who have influenced her. \u201cFrances McDormand, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, and Laura Dern,\u201d she started. \u201cWhat they play is so full. They\u2019re not playing something to appeal. They\u2019re playing a life that is complex and rich and uncomfortable and challenging and provocative. What I\u2019ve learned from them is, get to know yourself and just keep being ruthless in bringing the life force of what it is to be a woman to the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"15.0\">Additional reporting by Starr Bowenbank.<\/em><\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-19\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-18je4iv e94w1mj3\"\/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Jessie Buckley won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Hamnet this evening. She was the frontrunner going into the ceremony, following her wins in the category at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, BAFTAs, and Actor Awards. In her speech, she discussed the power of motherhood and thanked her husband, daughter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[450323,274717,451656,285977,285684,443346,451655,436397],"class_list":["post-2330795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-collection-oscars","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-294e4f80-70e3-4d2e-9fd9-274acf3ba63c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-4","tag-shorttitle-every-word-of-jessie-buckleys-best-actress-speech","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Read-Jessie-Buckleys-Full-Best-Actress-Oscar-Speech.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330797,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330795\/revisions\/2330797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}