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Year: 1986 (59th) Academy Awards

Category: Documentary (Feature)

Film Title: Down and Out in America

Winner: Joseph Feury and Milton Justice, Producers (accompanied on stage by director Lee Grant)

Presenter: Oprah Winfrey

Date & Venue: March 30, 1987; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion


JOSEPH FEURY:
I have a lot of people to thank but time is running short so I'll thank Michael Fuchs, Cis Wilson, Bridget Potter, Gene Abinader*, and all our friends at HBO. My first partner Saul Brandman, my friends Richie Zantanini* and Albert Vietri, and my mother Rachel who a lot of you know. Thank you very much.

MILTON JUSTICE:
We'd also like to thank our crew and our staff: Pru Greenblatt, Tom Hurwitz, Milton Ginsberg, Carol Cuddy, Tommy Manoff and our director Lee Grant, whose passion and persistence and anger made this film possible.

LEE GRANT:
This is for the people who are still down and out in America.

[Ed. note: A tie vote resulted in two films winning in this category: "Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got" and "Down and Out in America."] [*Name and spelling not confirmed.]

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