--- title: Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech As Analogy of 2020 is Perfect description: It turns out Olivia Colman's Oscar speech serves as the perfect analogy for 2020 when it gets the right treatment canonical: https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-07-21T14:28:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:30.799Z og:title: Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech Got the 2020 Treatment and It's Required Viewing og:description: Perfect og:url: https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech Got the 2020 Treatment and It's Required Viewing twitter:description: Perfect twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 2020 Remix of Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech Is Required Viewing by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 21, 2020 2:28 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 21, 2020 2:28 PM UTC There is no doubt that 2020 is a very memorable year. It is also an incredibly long one thanks to a [pandemic](https://time.com/5867272/francis-collins-covid-vaccine/) and lockdown orders that leave many people staying home for days, weeks, and months at a stretch making time for some feel malleable and meaningless. Pair the pandemic and all its unknowns with widespread economic downturn, a global uprising in support of [Black lives](https://time.com/5851855/systemic-racism-america/), a planet at [a turning point](https://time.com/5864692/climate-change-defining-moment/), and a looming U.S. [presidential election](https://time.com/5862179/pew-survey-americans-dissatisfied-trump-president/), and there is a lot to think about these days. So you’ll be forgiven if you don’t quite remember way back to 2019 when actress [Olivia Colman](https://time.com/5339863/the-crown-olivia-colman-queen-elizabeth/) delivered one of the most memorable speeches to ever grace the stage at the Oscars. Now, that speech has been remixed to make it even more relevant to this very long, strange year. Back in 2019, [Colman](https://time.com/5456996/olivia-colman-the-crown-the-favourite/) took home the Best Actress award at the [91st Academy Awards](https://time.com/5534976/oscars-2019-winners/) for her stellar work in the film _The Favourite_. Her natural, admittedly flustered, [gobsmacked speech](https://time.com/5536628/2019-oscars-olivia-colman/) endeared her to everyone watching as she shared her awe and joy at winning. “This is hilarious,” she said. “I’ve got an Oscar.” Colman pushed through tears to deliver jokes, thank her family, and blow a raspberry when asked to wrap up her speech. There were a lot of special moments in the speech and now Twitter user @[MattEvuns](https://twitter.com/MattEvuns/) has shared a video that turns those moments into pitch perfect representations of the first seven months of 2020. > [](https://twitter.com/MattEvuns/status/1284990209516539904) In the cleverly edited video, Colman runs from January’s “It wasn’t a hardship” to April’s “It’s genuinely quite stressful” to May’s “Lady Gaga!” to July’s “I’m going to find you later and I’m going to give you all a massive snog.” As one Twitter user notes, brace yourself for August: > [](https://twitter.com/TowerwhiteDani/status/1285296831337869312) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/"},"headline":"The 2020 Remix of Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech Is Required Viewing","datePublished":"2020-07-21T14:28:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:30.799Z","description":"It turns out Olivia Colman's Oscar speech serves as the perfect analogy for 2020 when it gets the right treatment","url":"https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5869377/olivia-colman-oscars-2020/","name":"The 2020 Remix of Olivia Colman's Oscar Speech Is Required Viewing"}}]}] ```