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Michael Moore Wins People’s Choice Award

HeadlineJan 10, 2005

Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has won best film at the US People’s Choice Awards, voted for by the US public. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ won best drama, despite both films being snubbed so far at US film awards in the run-up to February’s Oscars. Nominees for the People’s Choice Awards were picked by a 6,000-strong Entertainment Weekly magazine panel, and winners were subsequently chosen by 21 million online voters. Here is Michael Moore accepting the award last night: “We live in a great country and we all love our country very much and I am so amazed that you did this–the people of America–that you voted for this film. I can’t thank you enough. I’m honored and gratified and I know that there are many people tonight–mothers and fathers across this country–with sons and daughters in Iraq. Our prayers are with them and I dedicate this award to them tonight. I want to thank, most of all, the people out there who voted for this. I don’t want you to give up. This country is still all of ours. Not just right or left, democrat or republican, it’s all of our country. I love making movies and I’ll take this as an invitation to make more 'Fahrenheit 9/11's.”

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