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Year: 1980 (53rd) Academy Awards

Category: Foreign Language Film

Film Title: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Winner: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (accepted by Anatoli Dyuzhuv, cultural attache U.S.S.R. Embassy, Washington, D.C.)

Presenter: Franco Zeffirelli, Brooke Shields

Date & Venue: March 31, 1981; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

ANATOLI DYUZHUV:
Ladies and gentlemen, it's my great honor to receive so important award. On behalf of our film director Vladimir Menshov, actress Vera Alentova, and actor Alexei Batalov, "Gosha," I would like to express many thanks to Academy Motion Pictures Arts and Science. Thank you very much.

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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]