Melissa Leo: Oscar 2011 Best Supporting Actress (PHOTO)

Despite widespread criticism for her self-promotional Oscar campaign, Melissa Leo took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'The Fighter' at the Academy Awards Sunday night.

"I know there's a lot of people who said a lot of real nice things to me for several months now but I'm just shaking in my boots now," she told the crowd.

Leo launched her own Oscar ad campaign in the Hollywood trades earlier this month. First she defended it as her own idea then said that Paramount made her do it.

In the end, the campaign may have been an embarrassment, but it didn't stop her from taking home the Oscar - and Leo was sure to thank the Academy for that.

"Thank you, Academy, because it's about selling motion pictures and respecting the work," she said. "Thank you so much!"

Leo also used her speech to drop the f-bomb, though ABC was able to bleep out the word - see video at TMZ.

"When I watched Kate two years ago," she said, referencing when Kate Winslet beat her for Best Actress in 2009, "it looked so f**king easy."

Leo quickly clapped her hand to her mouth and later she apologized backstage, USA Today reports.

"I apologize to anyone that was offended," she said. "It was probably a very inappropriate place to use that word in particular."

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Comments

[3M Rocker]

05:31 PM on 03/18/2011

She's seems a little self-absorbed and unbearable. And at her age, you'd think I would recognize her from a previous role. I have no idea who this woman is.

[Sportswoman]

02:04 PM on 03/07/2011

Hey stems, you are delusional if you think you speak for any one other than yourself here...
Take your hostility elsewhere. I am requesting you cease from replying to my posts any further, as you border on stalking, dude...

[redhead55]

08:57 AM on 03/01/2011

Thank goodness these people can act because they all seem to be devoid of any personality.

[binq56]

12:38 AM on 03/01/2011

She is an actress and a pretty good one. This wasn't a slip. She needs someone else to write her next speech for her.

[Jimisaint]

12:14 AM on 03/01/2011

People . . . I mean, really . . . Who f*&%ing care? That was the best part of the whole motherf$#&@ing show.

[Publius67]

11:17 PM on 02/28/2011

well, it's not as if half the audience wasn't asleep by then anyway

[HannaSchmitz]

11:05 PM on 02/28/2011

nervous and excited will do that. loved her in frozen river. can't wait to see her in the fighter.

[Greg Wall]

08:58 PM on 02/28/2011

What offends me about it is that it was obviously completely planned and about as
accidental as Janet Jackson flashing her breast. She is a shameless attention seeker,
and obviously has no respect for parents who sit down to watch the show with there kids,
should there be any of THOSE left. She weighed it and went for it as a way of
getting more attention.

[janejoad]

10:54 AM on 03/08/2011

What kid watches the Oscars? Watching the Oscars is definitely an adult experience. It's not lke the old days when there wasn't much choice on television.

When I was a kid it was exiting to see the stars because we weren't as exposed to them. Now celebrity has it's own TV shows like Entertainment Tonight, and of course, EVERY news channel is laden with celebrity stories. The Charlie Sheen SIdeshow has been running for 2 weeks straight.

The fact that she dropped te F-bomb, tells me more about her class, rather than her craft.

Sitting down with a teenager to watch the show is different from sitting down with child under 10. By the time she was receiving her Oscar, a small child should have been in bed already.

[chavezcoach]

08:56 PM on 02/28/2011

No offense taken Melissa- I hear kids using that word all long at the elementary school where I teach.

[xsm941f]

08:26 PM on 02/28/2011

Good actress. Classless attention seeker.

[John Camp]

08:13 PM on 02/28/2011

Profanity is the crutch of a weak mind.

[Cameron Hodge]

08:30 PM on 02/28/2011

Or maybe some people are just uptight..

[Todd Beaucoudray]

07:46 PM on 02/28/2011

I think it was a funny comment.

[sheeshbrother]

06:42 PM on 02/28/2011

she's so uncouth

[LMPE]

06:27 PM on 02/28/2011

I didn't know anything about Melissa Leo's promotion campaign.