'Imitation Game' Screenwriter Graham Moore Discusses Suicide Awareness In Oscars Speech Through Story Of Personal Struggle [PHOTO]

This past Sunday, "Imitation Game" screenwriter Graham Moore won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. When he got onstage, his speech both shocked and inspired many as he revealed he had attempted suicide when he was 16 years old.

According to E Online, Moore stated, "Here's the thing - Alan Turing never got to stand on a stage like this and look out at all of these disconcertingly attractive faces. I do! And that's the most unfair thing I've ever heard...

So in this brief time here, what I wanted to do was say this: When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different, and I felt like I did not belong. And now I'm standing here...and so I would like this moment to be for this kid out there who feels like she's weird or she's different or she doesn't fit in anywhere. Yes, you do. I promise you do. Stay weird, stay different and then, when it's your turn, and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next person who comes along. Thank you so much!"

For those who may not know much about Alan Turing, he was a British mathematician who helped solve the Enigma code during World War II. After the war, Turning was prosecuted for homosexuality in Britain and died by suicide in 1954 when he was 41 years old.

According to the Huffington Post, Moore continued, "I'm not gay, but I've never talked publicly about depression before or any of that, and that was so much of what the movie was about and it was one of the things that drew me to Alan Turing so much.  I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. Alan had his share of them, and I had my own and that's what always moved me so much about his story."