Mira Sorvino winning Best Supporting Actress

Martin Landau presenting Mira Sorvino the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Mighty Aphrodite" at the 68th Academy Awards® in 1996.

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[Porkcfish]

I love this clip because most "Hollywood types" try to act cool or blasé, but Paul Sorvino just blubbered. Awesome. Proud Papa.

[TheMunchfan]

Is it me, or did Mira look so stunning?! And she still continues to look beautiful.

[Moviemike10]

I just interviewed Paul Sorvino for my web site and I asked him about this moment. He said it was just a great moment of pride.

[Lord Alan]

tarintino kissing mira!!!!!

[Lord Alan]

maria was great but wislet should won

[dilynzi]

That was so beautiful to see her Dad cry

[gerry robinson]

She was great in "The Grey Zone" a concentration camp Holocaust independent film from about ten years ago-2004ish. Plus she got a SAG, Golden and Emmy noms for the tv movie about human trafficking

[gerry robinson]

he was probably expecting and hoping his "Nixon" costar Joan Allen would win; the predictors said it would be Sorvino or Allen or Winslet but Sorvino had the edge having won the NYFilm Critics award a few months earlier, not sure who won the Golden Globe

[gerry robinson]

very bright and well educated too, attended schools in Europe and graduated with honors from Yale; she also won The NYFilm Critics Award (who usually get it right, and they did here of course) for best sup actress too; two other great performances imo were first runner up ties: Kate Winslet(Sense and Sensibility)&JoanAllen(Nixon); Sorvino was hilarious and heart breaking too; she was also excellent in "The Grey Zone" a SecondWorldWar Holocaust independent film.

[Kyle Oxenham]

Second year in a row where someone from a Woody Allen movie won Best Supporting Actress.

[sheppard67]

Lovely speech. :)