and martin sandler, 1919, thank you that changed america.ational book award goes to martin sandler "1919: the year that changed america." [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i've got three minutes and i can tell that -- children in an hour. but i want to thank you so, so much. after a lifetime of doing this, this is such an incredible, incredible honor. i'm particularly honored to be in the company of my four fellow nominees. i will tell you that as the eldest statesman of that group, i am so confident of the future of young people's literature. [applause] and and i want to kill all of tm how much i admire their work. nobody in this country or the world knows better than the people in this room that no book is the result of the author itself. and i've had people at bloomsbury who know that this book is as much theirs as it isn't mine, particularly mary kate and susan. thank you so much. [applause] i have written 60 books. i intend to write at least 60 more. [applause] and i hope i'm back in again to celebrate it with you. thank you so very, very much. thank

you ever see "mixed nuts," nora ephron wrote it after sleepless in seattle, steve martin, rita wilson, young adam sandlery cool news last night he was telling everybody about an idea he had for sunglasses and you would be able to spin the sunglasses if you were fidgeting and waiting in line, and got in touch with the guys at warby parker and described the idea for a hinge on sunglasses and after a year and a half of work, he got to show them off >> oh. >> the first ever pinnacle of sunglasses see look at this >> that is cute. >> so we have them here. they're called spinies and on the right hinge of the sunglasses, on the right side is a hinge. >> they're cute. >> they look cute. >> i like them. >> the good news is that 100% of the profits from the glasses goes to the people's project, which provides free glasses and eye exams for kids in the u.s. >> they look good on everybody. >> oh, al there looks great. >> smoking. >> let's see you, hoda. >> my face is too fat for these. >> they look good on everyone. >> thanks jimmy. >> thanks jimmy. >> thanks jimmy. >>> next up, lena waithe, the actor whose screen w

sandler? >> no, who is that? [laughter] >> first of all, congratulations, man, but -- yeah, you can [applause] [laughter] >> look his last boss was god. i don't think he's afraid of martindo you know what i'm saying? >> it is marty, by the way. [laughter] >> but you went in there and you were the real priest of them all. i get upset when i go to auditions and get typecast. i always get typecast. you were typecast. when you originally read the script, did you think you were going to be a mob guy and when you read the priest part, and you're like i got out and they pulled me back in, like really? >> i i was hoping to be the guy who got beat up. >> you moved on and you're a priest again. it is like you tried to get away from it and you are back in it again. >> no, it was awesome because in the end, i think all of us recognize that there are mistakes in our lives that we have to go beyond. how do we go beyond it? that's not easy. in the end, this guy who was so important for so many years in this tiny little world of the mob world realized he was all alone and dying. the only one who he could talk to was this chaplain in assisted living, and he was saying my family has tota