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Beautiful! Best Actress winner Jessie Buckley uses her acceptance speech to praise marriage and promote motherhood.
A sharp contrast from last year's winner, Mikey Madison, who dedicated her award to sex workers.
10:02 AM · Mar 16, 2026
Jessie Buckley was a best actress nominee for the movie Hamnet, a period drama based on a fiction novel about William Shakespeare's family. The film explored Shakespeare's and his wife Agnes' marriage, particularly after the loss of their 11-year-old son, and how it shaped Agnes as a mother, as well as Shakespeare's writing. Buckley's portrayal of Agnes won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, but it is her acceptance speech that appears to be more popular than the actual film. //
Buckley's unbridled expression of love for her husband was not just heartwarming, but a biblical example of honoring her husband.
Fred, I love you man. I love you, she said.
You're the most incredible Dad, you're my best friend, and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you. I do, I do! //
Buckley also honored the writer and director of the film by saying, "To understand the capacity of a mother's love is the greatest collision of my life." Collision is probably the right word, because what I know of the mothers in my family and my life, this word embodies the massive impact of their great love for their children. A love that never goes away, no matter how old they get. One mom friend described her 18-year-old as her heart walking outside of her body. That's fierce.
Buckley ended her speech with an homage to mothers in the U.K. and all over the world. "It's Mother's Day in the U.K., so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart."
This "beautiful chaos," Buckley described, illuminating that motherhood, and the passion and great love that drives it, is not supposed to be neatly packaged in illusory perfection or impossible milestones. It's meant to be messy and chaotic, as is much of life — at least the part that matters.
