If there's one message Graham Moore wants you to learn from the Academy Awards it's to stay weird and stay different.
Moore took home an Oscar Sunday night for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game and dedicated his award to Alan Turing, the man whose story the film was based on, and subsequently a man who never received the credit he was due.
Moore then told a moving story about his attempted suicide as a teenager. (Turing committed suicide at the age of 41.)
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 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're standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next person who comes along.
The audience, and the Internet, had a powerful reaction to Moore's positive message.
1 billion standing ovations for Graham Moore— elan gale (@theyearofelan) February 23, 2015
Fantastic speech, @MrGrahamMoore. Big feels! #Oscars— Jesse Tyler Ferguson (@jessetyler) February 23, 2015
Graham Moore and countless others are proof that #itgetsbetter and its good to #stayweird— Shannon (@shannonre929) February 23, 2015
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