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Year: 1995 (68th) Academy Awards

Category: Honorary Award

Winner: To Kirk Douglas, for fifty years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community.

Presenter: Steven Spielberg

Date & Venue: March 25, 1996; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

KIRK DOUGLAS:
Thank you. Thank you. I see my four sons. They are proud of the old man. And I am proud, too. Proud to be a part of Hollywood for fifty years. But this [holding up the Oscar] is for my wife Anne. I love you. And tonight I love all of you, and I thank all of you for fifty wonderful years. Thank you. Thank you.

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