Jared Leto
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The star took home the award for Best Supporting Actor at Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony for his heralded turn as a transgender AIDS patient in the acclaimed drama, opposite Matthew McConaughey.
In accepting his award, Leto paid tribute to his mother, Constance, who sat alongside the actor and his brother, Shannon.
"In 1971," Leto shared, "a teenage girl was pregnant with her second child. She was a high-school drop-out ... But somehow she managed to make a better life for her children."
"That girl is my mother, and she's here tonight," he continued, adding, "I wanna say, Mom, thank you for teaching me to dream."
Wrapping up his speech, Leto, dressed in a white tuxedo top, said: "To those of you out there who ever felt injustice for who you are and how you look, tonight I stand here in front of the world for you."
A first-time nominee, Leto famously took a six-year hiatus from making movies before signing on for Dallas Buyers Club, choosing instead to tour with his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.
Leto was up for Best Supporting Actor against Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips, Bradley Cooper in American Hustle, Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave and Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street.
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