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Year: 1981 (54th) Academy Awards

Category: Foreign Language Film

Film Title: Mephisto

Winner: Hungary (accepted by director István Szabó; accompanied on stage by actor Klaus Maria Brandauer)

Presenter: Jack Valenti, Ornella Muti

Date & Venue: March 29, 1982; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

ISTVÁN SZABÓ:
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for this marvelous things. And thank for Mr. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor. Klaus, come with me I am so alone here. [Klaus Maria Brandauer joins him on stage.] And many thanks to the marvelous cinematographer, Hungarian cinematographer, Mr. Koltai. And for the screenplay, Mr. Dobai. And Miss Csákány, cutter editor. And Mr. Marx, producer, and Mr. Manfred Durniok, producer, and Mr. Óvári. And my family. And Miss Karin Brandauer and Miss Vera Gyurey Szabó. Thank you very much.

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