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Year: 1981 (54th) Academy Awards
Category: Best Picture
Film Title: Chariots of Fire
Winner: David Puttnam, Producer (accompanied on stage by director Hugh Hudson)
Presenter: Loretta Young
Date & Venue: March 29, 1982; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
DAVID PUTTNAM:
Just for thirty seconds I wish I was Bette Midler. To the most extraordinary, generous people on God's earth, not just the Academy to whom I have to be held thankful for this, but as a country to have taken what is absolutely a Cinderella picture and awarded it this and come to see it in droves is absolutely extraordinary. I've got many…your indulgence. This is a Best Film Award, and three-and-a-half years ago I started out with Colin Welland and the director Hugh Hudson—Could he please stand with me? We've been together three-and-a-half years, I'd hate not to be with him now. Hugh. [Director Hugh Hudson joins him onstage.]
I have to thank—I don't know where to start. It starts with my good friend Sandy Lieberson who made it possible in the first place. Everybody at Twentieth Century Fox. Mohamed and Dodi Fayed, who came through for us and put their money where my mouth was. And since coming here, Warner Bros. and The Ladd Company, for falling in love with the film. And literally it's thanks to them we're here tonight. Thank you very, very much.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
