British actor Gary Oldman has been a staple of Hollywood for a couple of decades now but it's been a while since we would have seen his face around the awards circuit. Last night however, the actor took home the prestigious SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and he couldn't have seemed any more genuinely happy and touched to win.

The award was for his role as former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, which is being hailed as the performance of his career.

Oldman voice cracked when he took to the stage to receive the award, with the actor saying: "I've become emotional. Thank you, SAG-AFTRA for this tremendous honour. I am honestly and truly thrilled and overjoyed to be in this room tonight, not only with my amazing fellow nominees but my friends and peers."

The 59-year-old actor went on to say: "There are giants of acting in this room tonight. Two of them share my table: Geoffrey Rush and Richard Jenkins.

"Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and of course the extraordinary, my old sparring partner, Denzel Washington.

"They are telling me to wrap up and that very sad music seems to follow me everywhere, so I will just say this, that Churchill reminds us we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give and you have given enormously tonight and I am so deeply, deeply honoured and proud to receive this magnificent award. God bless you all, thank you!"

Watch his acceptance speech below: