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Year: 1975 (48th) Academy Awards

Category: Actor

Film Title: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Winner: Jack Nicholson

Presenter: Art Carney

Date & Venue: March 29, 1976; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion


JACK NICHOLSON:
Well, I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. But, since you gave me the chance, I'm really happy to get an opportunity to thank Saul and Michael and Louise and Brad and Lawrence and Bo, and all of the guys in the company, all of the feebs brigade. And I'd like to thank Miss Pickford who, incidentally, I believe was the first actor to get a percentage of her pictures. And speaking of a percentage, last but not least, my agent, who about ten years ago advised me that I had no business being an actor. Thank you.

[Ed. note: The presentation of an honorary award to Mary Pickford was made just prior to the Best Actor category.]

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