Viola Davis goes overtime in emotional Oscar speech

Viola Davis goes overtime in emotional Oscar speech

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Viola Davis most certainly swung for the fences when it came to her Oscars speech.



The actress, who won her first Academy Award on Sunday night, delivered a long and rambling speech after nabbing the Best Supporting Actress gong for Fences.



Viola, 51, broke down in tears as she opened her speech, which went overtime, with a metaphor about a graveyard.



'There's one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered — and that's the graveyard,' she began through tears.

'People ask me all the time, what kind of stories do you want to tell? And i say, "Exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories,'" she said.

'We are the only profession to celebrate what it means to live a life. So here's to [Fences playwright/screenwriter] August Wilson, who exhumed — and exalted — ordinary people.'