Oscars 2023: 'Best Actor' Brendan Fraser gets emotional, says 'If I can do it, you can too'

Brendan Fraser won the best actor Oscar for “The Whale,” a transformative role in which he revived a career that was once so bright. “I started in this business 30 years ago and things didn’t come easily to me,” said an emotional Fraser, breathing heavily on stage Sunday night. “I just want to say thank you for this acknowledgement.”