00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:09 Please join me in congratulating Kristen Stewart
00:11 for receiving this year's Sundance Institute Visionary
00:13 Award.
00:14 Kristen and I have done a few movies together.
00:17 And we did this scene, and I saw everything in her face.
00:21 It was so subtle, but also severe,
00:23 and lived in an intense, and engaging, and sorrowful.
00:28 And in these brief few seconds, I was like blown away.
00:30 Jesse, I like--
00:31 I adore you, and your work, and your whole life,
00:35 just like endlessly and lifelong.
00:37 My whole life, I have loved this festival.
00:39 I came here for the first time 20 years ago, I realize today.
00:42 You know, awards are only as meaningful as the people
00:44 and places that give them to you.
00:46 And to be accepted by the community,
00:48 I have admired so personally.
00:51 It is so lovely and enlivening.
00:53 It is so well-timed.
00:54 I like need this.
00:57 Thank you.
00:58 Join me in a thunderous and extra schmoozy welcome
01:02 to the first ever Trailblazer Award recipient,
01:04 Christopher Nolan.
01:07 And confidentially, he needs his spirits lifted.
01:09 He's a bit blue.
01:11 I don't mean to bring this up, Emma.
01:12 I know it's very personal.
01:13 He has become recognizable on the street.
01:16 The experience you have here as a filmmaker
01:18 is unique in all the world.
01:20 And you carry it with you through your whole career.
01:23 And I could not be more grateful for the experience
01:25 that I had here.
01:27 (upbeat music)
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