Benedict Cumberbatch may have lost out on the Best Actor award at this year's Oscars to Eddie Redmayne but he has said that there's no such thing as losers when it comes to the Academy Awards.
Speaking to BBC News the Imitation Game star said, "It was fantastic. We all won. Anyone who was sat in that audience won.
"There's no such thing as 80% of losers when it comes to being nominated for an Oscar, which is basically what you're looking at if you don't win an award. I'm there to be acknowledged for performing a man who is exceptionally important to our lives, who was dealt an incredibly unjust blow in his life.
"He met the end of his miseries with suicide, and we're there saying things that he wasn't able to. We're just thrilled as artists that we got any kind of acknowledgement by being nominated."
He added, "To be part of a film that tells that story is privilege enough. We all won when we came together as a family to make this film."
Graham Moore
The Imitation Game won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the ceremony on Sunday night and screenwriter Graham Moore gave a brilliant speech about being yourself even if you don't feel like you fit in, "Here's the thing. Alan Turing never got to stand on a stage like this and look out at all of these disconcertingly attractive faces. I do. And that's the most unfair thing I've ever heard.
"So in this brief time here, what I wanted to do was say this: When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different, and I felt like I did not belong. And now I'm standing here, and so I would like this moment to be for this kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different or she doesn't fit in anywhere: Yes, you do. I promise you do. Stay weird, stay different, and then, when it's your turn, and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next person who comes along. Thank you so much!"
Commenting on Moore's speech Cumberbatch said, "Graham's win basically is it for all of us. It's a night for hyperbolic exaggeration, but I can guarantee that's probably saved someone's life, what he said. We all felt like we were on stage with him – it was beautiful."
