The Austrians Take One Home
Stewart said the next presenter's a beautiful actress who speaks four languages who, earlier in the evening, taught him the phrase "I'm calling security" in all of them. Academy Award Penelope Cruz tossed Stewart a smile as she strode to the podium to introduce the foreign language films. Austria's entry The Counterfeiters won (the first time a film from that country has captured an Oscar). The director acknowledged that most of the filmmakers had to leave Austria because of the Nazis, so it's only appropriate his film is about the Nazis.