Best Supporting Actress Speech 2015: Patricia Arquette Wins For ‘Boyhood,’ Makes Passionate Plea For Gender Equality [VIDEO]
Patricia Arquette continued her sweep of awards for her role in Boyhood at the 2015 Oscars, and managed to take her acceptance speech and use it for an impassioned plea about gender equality.
Arquette won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making film, where she played Olivia, who deals with the struggles of being a single mother as her son grows up and watches her deal with two relationships with alcoholic men before the two part ways when he heads off to college.
In her speech, Arquette made a passionate plea for true gender equality in the U.S., calling for women to finally have all the same rights as men.
"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation; we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," she said. "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and to fight for equal rights for women in America."
