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Year: 1988 (61st) Academy Awards

Category: Sound

Film Title: Bird

Winner: Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton

Presenter: James Stewart, Kim Novak

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

WILLIE D. BURTON:
Good afternoon. I thank you. I thank you. I'm so happy. This is my fourth nomination and I don't know what to say other than I am so delighted. These wonderful people with me here, Les Fresholtz and Vern Poore and Dick Alexander, thank you for everything. I'd like to thank David Valdes, also Clint Eastwood. And also my boom man, Marvin Lewis, and Robert Harris. Thank you. Thank you for everything.

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

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