The Actual Speech:

http://michaelmoore.mine.nu/Michael_Moore_speech_Oscar_2003.mpg

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Politics grabbed center stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday as maverick director Michael Moore charged President Bush with waging a "fictitious war" against Iraq.
Wagging his finger from the stage, to both applause and boos, Moore said; "We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you."

Moore won the Oscar for best documentary for "Bowling for Columbine," a provocative film on the roots of gun violence in America, whose title refers to the Colorado high school where two students massacred 13 people before killing themselves in 1999.

"We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons," Moore shouted, before being drowned out by the orchestra at the end of his allotted 45 seconds speech.

Moore's outburst shattered the restraint that had marked Sunday's Oscar ceremony where many celebrities wore discreet peace pins or peace doves on their gowns and tuxedos but otherwise kept their opinions largely to themselves.

Moore had given virtually the same speech when he won an Independent Spirit Award for "Bowling for Columbine" on Saturday, but then he had greeted only with cheers.

Moore, author of the controversial but best-selling "Stupid White Men," which attacks Bush and senior figures in his administration, told reporters backstage at Hollywood's Kodak Theater; "I'm an American and you don't leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theater. That's what's great about being an American."

"I say tonight I put America in a good light. I showed how vital it is to have free speech in this country."

Moore however said he did not think the Oscar ceremony should have been postponed because of the war with Iraq. Oscar organizers spent much of the week agonizing over whether to go ahead or not, and decided to ax the glitzy red carpet arrivals to tone down the party atmosphere.

"I think it is important to have the Oscars and after all isn't that what we were fighting for -- our American way of life? What could be more American than the Oscars," he told reporters.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=specialCoverageNews&storyID=2433609

The Press conferance: http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/win_32297.html