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Year: 1995 (68th) Academy Awards
Category: Music (Original Song)
Song Title: "Colors Of The Wind"
Film Title: Pocahontas
Winner: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Presenter: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne
Date & Venue: March 25, 1996; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
ALAN MENKEN:
Well, thank you, Vanessa Williams, and thank you, Judy Kuhn, for your wonderful performances of the song, and Robbie Buchanan for a wonderful production of the single -- for arrangement of the single and Keith Sonnet for production. Stephen...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ:
We want to express our appreciation to members of the Academy. Our deep gratitude to our colleagues at Disney, past and present. And I want to acknowledge my personal debt to the Native American poets and wisdom keepers who inspired my work on this project, most particularly in the case of this song, Chief Seattle. Thank you very much.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
