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Year: 1988 (61st) Academy Awards
Category: Foreign Language Film
Film Title: Pelle the Conqueror
Winner: Denmark (accepted by director Bille August)
Presenter: Candice Bergen, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Valenti
Date & Venue: March 29, 1989; Shrine Civic Auditorium
BILLE AUGUST:
Oh, it's so, so exciting, so—I'm very nervous. I made a film about very poor immigrants coming to Denmark and here I'm standing in my tuxedo and this shiny thing [lifting the Oscar]. Thank you very much. And thank you to everybody who has been involved in this picture. Thank you.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
