During the ceremony, Graham Moore, a first-time Academy Award nominee, spoke of his suicide attempt as a teenager and sent a message to kids who feel out of place to “stay weird.” He talked to BuzzFeed News about what inspired him to say what he said.
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When first-time nominee Graham Moore won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Imitation Game, he took the stage and opened up about his suicidal past.
Moore was inspired by the man at the center of The Imitation Game, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), who helped crack an impossible German code during World War II — changing the course of the war in the allies favor — only to be prosecuted later in life for being an openly gay man. At 41 years old, Turning took his own life.
"Alan Turing never got to stand on a stage like this and look out at all of these disconcertingly attractive faces. And I do," Moore said in his speech. "And that's the most unfair thing I think I've ever heard."
"In this brief time here, what I want to use it to do is to 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," Moore said. "And now, I'm standing here and I would like for this moment to be for that 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. 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."
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