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Year: 1982 (55th) Academy Awards

Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Film Title: Missing

Winner: Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart (Costa-Gavras not present)

Presenter: Philip Dunne

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

DONALD STEWART:
On behalf of my co-writer and friend, Costa-Gavras, I'd like to thank the members of the Academy that voted us this award. We owe it to a lot of very brave people who gave their art and their hearts to "Missing." But above all we owe it to Charles Edmund Horman. Thank you.

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