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Year: 1982 (55th) Academy Awards

Category: Short Film (Animated)

Film Title: Tango

Winner: Zbigniew Rybczynski, Producer (with Polish translator Jolanta Czaderska-Hayek)

Presenter: Matt Dillon, Kristy McNichol

Date & Venue: April 11, 1983; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI [via translator]:
Distinguished members of the Academy, ladies and gentlemen, I made this short film so I will speak very short. I feel honored to receive this award. I am dreaming that someday I will speak longer from this place.

[Applause; music plays.]

TRANSLATOR: It's not over yet. He has important message.

[Presenters try to escort the winners off stage.]

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI:
No. No.

[Presenters back off; Mr. Rybczynski gives Kristy McNichol a kiss and shakes the hand of Matt Dillon.]

TRANSLATOR:
That is Slavic custom. We are very warm people.

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI [via translator]:
And on the occasion of the film like "Gandhi," which will portray Lech Walesa in solidarity. Thank you.

ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI:
Thank you all very much.

© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]

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