Hugh Jackman's Opening Number: 81st Oscars (2009)

[Applause] good evening and welcome to the Academy Awards this really is the biggest movie event of the year and we're here to honor all this year's incredible films and the actors and actresses that have starred in them now the academy loves to salute range like Kate Winslet ladies and gentlemen in the reader Kate who is English plays a German nominated in Tropic Thunder Danny Jr ladies and gentlemen Robert who's an American played an Australian playing an African-American nominated whereas me I'm an Australian who played an Australian in a movie called Australia hosting but but as you know this is my first year as but that's not the only thing that is different this year everything is being downsized because of the recession next year I'll be starring in a movie called New Zealand and due to cutbacks the academy said they didn't have enough money for an opening number now you know what I'm going to do one anyway yeah because you know that's just the way I roll because I stayed up all night in my garage I put together my own tribute to this year's films because in Hollywood you don't need money you can build a dream out of nothing just a humble slum dog sitting in the chair of a millionaire what will I be holding in the end what's my final answer is it written there do I really care I'm only here so I can phone a friend and if I thought that I could find equivalence hi K I would swim a sea of human excrement and I begin my story with this sentiment this Slum Dog Millionaire just needs some milk I'm talking about M and K I'm talking about milk I'm saying it's all right to be gay I'm jaob milk milk mil