>In 2010, the Academy sought to combat this verbosity with a new 45-second rule. In response, some winners sped through their acknowledgements, while others used humour or emotion to buy extra time before the music signalled them off. Occasionally, the orchestra was ignored entirely, with speeches like Adrien Brody’s 2003 win for The Pianist running well over the limit.
Brody so clairvoyant that he can ignore limits that don't even exist yet.
Odd. The 45-second "rule" was not new to 2010. It apparently went back to the 1940s.
> The longest Oscar speech was given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Her speech ran for nearly six minutes.[11] It was shortly after this incident that the academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit.
(Linked from the original article, but clearly the 45-second limit predated 2010.)
Regardless of when the limit first appeared, the orchestra did attempt to hurry Brody along after he was several minutes into his speech and well over 45 seconds:
Brody so clairvoyant that he can ignore limits that don't even exist yet.