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Year: 1977 (50th) Academy Awards

Category: Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing)

Film Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Winner: Frank E. Warner

Presenter: Mark Hamill, "R2-D2", "C3PO"

Date & Venue: April 3, 1978; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

FRANK E. WARNER:
I have to follow my own act. For this honor I thank the Board of Governors and the special sound committee. To Julia and Michael Phillips and Steve Spielberg, three very special people, thank you very much for the freedom to express myself. And to my dear friends who share this with me, thank you.

© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]

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