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"Making films is not what I do, it is who I am," the four-fold Oscar nominee said on Sunday, accompanying his long-awaited Academy Awards honour with an acceptance speech about his love of cinema.

It opened my imagination to the possibility that life could expand far beyond the boundaries that I then perceived in my own life.

"I want you to know that I will always do everything I can to help this art form, to support and champion new voices, to protect what makes cinema powerful - hopefully without too many more broken bones," he added.

"If his body's all good and the management think he's good to go, I don't see why not," said Tongue.

"I'm very conscious of the fact that people want to get on in life, they want to progress, they want more money in their pocket to do the things that matter to them," he said.