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Year: 1988 (61st) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Film Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Winner: Christopher Hampton
Presenter: Dennis Quaid, Michelle Pfeiffer
Date & Venue: March 29, 1989; Shrine Civic Auditorium
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON:
Well, this [holding up the Oscar] is great but anyone would fly across the Atlantic to get a kiss from Michelle Pfeiffer. I want to thank Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean and my fellow producers for showing a beginner the ropes. I want to thank Norma for putting me in touch with Bernie Brillstein. Peter Chernin and Ileen Maisel, without whose courage I think the film wouldn't exist, and faith in it. And finally I want to thank the two co-recipients of this: Choderlos de Laclos, who's having about as good a year as is possible to have if you're a dead writer, and of course Stephen Frears, who created the atmosphere for everyone to be able to do their best work. So thank you, Stephen. Thank you, Michelle, John and Glenn. Thank you, France. Thank you, America. Thank you.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
