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Year: 1983 (56th) Academy Awards

Category: Music (Original Score)

Film Title: The Right Stuff

Winner: Bill Conti

Presenter: Gene Kelly, Ray Bolger

Date & Venue: April 9, 1984; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

BILL CONTI:
Thank you very much for this honor. I have to thank everyone that I should thank: my mother, my father, my wife, my daughters Nicola and Rachela that knew this was going to happen -- I don't know how. Bob Chartoff, Irwin Winkler believed in me from the beginning. Al Bart, Stan Milander, Nathan Kaproff, Angela Morley, Dick Hazard*, all the musicians that played, and the engineer that recorded it, Danny Wallin. Thank you all. Thank you very much.

[*Name not confirmed.]

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