When Emma Thompson Pretended To Be Jane Austen

Emma Thompson s win for Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes (1995). Instead of speaking as herself, she read a speech from the point of view of Jane Austen, and what Jane might have thought if she d attended. This is one of my favourite things. Full speech is as follows (with my sincere thanks to futurefighter2008 for transcribing it): Thank you very much. Good Heavens. Um, I can t thank you enough, Hollywood Foreign Press, for honouring me in this capacity. I don t wi