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Year: 1980 (53rd) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Film Title: Ordinary People
Winner: Alvin Sargent
Presenter: Peter Ustinov
Date & Venue: March 31, 1981; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
ALVIN SARGENT:
Thank you. I am very proud that you give me this honor and you honor this film which is about all of us trying to understand all of us, a movie that is about terror and despair and pain and all kinds of anxiety, violence, and yet with no bullets, no guns, and no rapes and no homicides. And I'd like to dedicate this to the actors, and my producer Ron Schwary, and the exquisite taste of my director, and to...there's a little house on a corner in a street in Edina, Minnesota, and there lives Judith Guest. Thank you.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
