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Year: 1984 (57th) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Film Title: Amadeus
Winner: Peter Shaffer
Presenter: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Date & Venue: March 25, 1985; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
PETER SHAFFER:
I'd like to thank the Academy for this distinguished present. I know my colleagues, and there are so many of them attached to this film, will forgive me tonight if I mention only one name, that of Milos Forman. Mr. Forman, as I'm sure you know, is a remarkable and distinguished screenwriter in his own right as well as a remarkable and distinguished director, and his contribution to the transference of my play to the screen was gigantic. We both decided that music would be the center of the film and my great pleasure is that Mozart has now reached millions and millions of people who had not heard him before. Thank you very much.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
