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Year: 1980 (53rd) Academy Awards
Category: Actress in a Leading Role
Film Title: Coal Miner's Daughter
Winner: Sissy Spacek
Presenter: Dustin Hoffman
Date & Venue: March 31, 1981; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
SISSY SPACEK:
Oh my goodness. I want to thank all of you so much. I'm...this is the greatest. I...for the first time in my life I'm speechless. I started to work on "Coal Miner's Daughter" with a bunch of strangers and I finished working on "Coal Miner's Daughter" with a bunch of friends. And I want to thank Loretta Lynn, and my wonderful director Michael Apted, and Tommy Lee Jones—my Doolittle—and Beverly D'Angelo, and Bob Larson, and Sean Daniel, and Bernie Schwartz, and Michael Chinich, and Tom Rickman, and Joe Tompkins, and Pam Wise. And the lady who gave me all that hair, Lorraine Roberson. And my wonderful husband Jack. And all the cast and crew that worked on "Coal Miner's Daughter." I share this with you and I love you. And Mama and Daddy, I love you, too.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
