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TIL When Andy Serkis (appearing as Gollum) delivered his acceptance speech for “Best Visual Performance,” in the Two Towers, at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, the speech itself won a Hugo award for “Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form”

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