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Just what the hell is it about acceptance speeches? Nowadays, I can safely predict just how uniformly dreadful they will be, and whilst, I wouldn’t waste a single minute watching the Oscars ceremony or slightly lesser grade awards programmes for that matter, I compulsively tape them if only for the thrill of fast forwarding to the award winner announcements. Positively and consistently awful, each winner demonstrates that, despite their on-screen presence, off-screen they are scattered, inarticulate and unprepared.

Jacqueline Bisset never expected to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the 2013 Tv series “Dancing on the edge”. However, even if she never expected it, she had to know that there was still, statistically speaking, a chance she could win. When she got up on stage, she stood silently for what seemed like an eternity, trying to gather herself and to think about what to say. It was awkward and uncomfortable, and it took not one, but several attempts for her to speak fluently.

… and the moral of the story? – If there’s any chance whatsoever that you’re going to need to get up in front of a crowd, have an opening line planned, three bullets, and a closing line. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. But it shouldn’t be less than that, either.