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Year: 1981 (54th) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Film Title: Chariots of Fire
Winner: Colin Welland
Presenter: Jerzy Kosinski
Date & Venue: March 29, 1982; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
COLIN WELLAND: What you've done for the British film industry! I'd just like to thank David Puttnam for having the wisdom to ask me to write it in the first place; Hugh Hudson for respecting me and my script, which is a very hard thing to find in our business as you know; all the actors for getting fit enough to appear like Olympic athletes; and to British television, where I learned my craft. I'd like to finish with a word of warning: You may have started something. The British are coming.
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