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Year: 1988 (61st) Academy Awards

Category: Short Film (Live Action)

Film Title: The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Winner: Dean Parisot, Steven Wright

Presenter: Carrie Fisher, Martin Short

Date & Venue: March 29, 1989; Shrine Civic Auditorium

STEVEN WRIGHT :
Umm, this was to the short film category and we're really glad that we cut out the other sixty minutes. We'd like to thank David Picker, Paula Mazur. Mike Armstrong, co-writer. Paul Jackson. And I'd like to personally thank Peter LaSally and Johnny Carson.

DEAN PARISOT:
We'd also like to thank HBO, Alive Films, the Academy, and Sally, my wife.

STEVEN WRIGHT:
Thank you.

DEAN PARISOT:
Thank you.

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