Get the tissues ready. Stephen Hawking congratulates Edie Redmayne on his Oscars win

The British actor, Eddie Redmayne, won the Best Actor Oscar yesterday for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. And if winning the gong at the most prestigious movie award show of them all wasn’t enough, the 73-year-old theoretical physicist and cosmologist wasted no time in sharing his congratulations. Mr Hawking went to Facebook with his touching message.

In Redmayne’s Oscars speech he thanked Stephen and the Hawking family. He also dedicated his award to those battling ALS, the motor neuron disease from which the scientist suffers. 

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