Oscar winners to express thanks online. The producer of the televised Oscar awards show suggests that award recipients confine themselves to a 45-second acceptance speech. A list of all the people they want to thank would then be run on oscar.com under the winner’s picture. But, alas, this is a suggestion only, not a requirement… My question: would the price of the gowns come down any if they were only going to get onscreen for 45 sec.?