Here's Who Won That Jet Ski at the 2018 Academy Awards

It's become standard for awards show acceptance speeches to be a race against the clock, as the award winner tries to rattle out his or her long list of thanks before the orchestra plays them off. At the 2018 Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel added a new incentive to try to get winners to stay on schedule: whoever gives the shortest speech gets a jet ski, presented by Helen Mirren.

Played off like a Price Is Right prize, Kimmel's opening monologue concluded with the reveal of Mirren showing off the jet ski, and it became a recurring bit throughout the show. Multiple nominees referenced the "prize" as a reason to keep their speeches within the Academy Awards-determined time limit -- or admitted they were going over time even if it meant they were going to be losing their chance.

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