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Year: 1984 (57th) Academy Awards

Category: Visual Effects

Film Title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Winner: Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs

Presenter: Candice Bergen, William Hurt

Date & Venue: March 25, 1985; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

DENNIS MUREN:
Well, thank the Academy, and Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathy Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Robert Watts, everybody at Industrial Light & Magic.

GEORGE GIBBS:
I'd like to thank Elliot Scott, the production designer, for asking me to work with him, and thank Steven Spielberg for giving me the opportunity. Thank you.

MICHAEL McALISTER:
There's about a hundred other people at ILM to thank. We don't have time so I'd like to thank a few of them. They are: Bruce Nicholson, Michael Owens, Barbara Gallucci, Pat Sweeney, Howie Stein and the entire editorial department, and Pat Fitzsimmons and the incredible ILM grip department. Thank you.

LORNE PETERSON:
I'd also like to especially throw in a thanks for George Lucas; it's our tenth year this year. And also the model shop, which is about thirty of us. Thank you very much.

DENNIS MUREN:
Thank you very much.

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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]

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