Oscars 2015: Why Pawel Pawlikowski Talked Through the Play-Off Music

— -- While accepting the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, Pawel Pawlikowski ignored the music that played him off-stage.

He had a good reason: The director, who rushed to thank his late wife and parents as his time on-stage wound down, wanted to talk more about his family.

"I was thinking about my kids who were watching -- hopefully they were watching," he told reporters backstage. "What I wanted to say was this is great and wonderful but my kids are the most important thing in life."

"Ida," the film for which Pawlikowski was honored, was the first win for Poland. However, had Pawlikowski had been able to say all that he wanted to say, he joked that the speech would have been distinctly American.

"I was about to say this kids thing, which Americans would've loved!" he said. "But I never got time to."

Until now.