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After winning Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG and Critics’ Choice Awards for her role in The Help, Octavia Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing feisty maid Minny Jackson.

“I have to thank my families. My family in Alabama — the state of Alabama,” she said in her acceptance speech. ” My L.A. family watching at Steven’s. My ‘Help’ family. I share with this everybody. Thank you [producer] Steven Spielberg for changing my life.”

The film, based on a book about rebellious maids in a 1960′s southern town, spent two weeks at number one and raked in over $90 million at the box office in its first three weeks. Watch Spencer’s acceptance speech below.

Octavia Spencer Oscars 2012 acceptance speech by S8BYB

Octavia Spencer Wins An Oscar!  was originally published on elev8.com