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Year: 1995 (68th) Academy Awards
Category: Documentary (Feature)
Film Title: Anne Frank Remembered
Winner: Jon Blair (accompanied on stage by film participant Miep Gies)
Presenter: Elisabeth Shue, Nicolas Cage
Date & Venue: March 25, 1996; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
JON BLAIR:
Anne Frank loved the movies. In October 1942, she even wrote that she wanted to come to Hollywood. Of course that was a dream that she could never realize. But in bringing her story to Hollywood I must thank Michael Atwell* at the BBC, Doug Zwick*, Nancy Kemp and Bruce Ryder at Disney, and all the people at Sony Pictures Classics. And most especially Steven Spielberg, without whose eleventh hour intervention I would never have been able to make this film. But most of all it's this woman, the hero of the story of Anne Frank, the woman quite literally without which there would never have been a diary for us to celebrate for fifty years. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Miep Gies who found the diary on the floor. In the city of celluloid heroes, Miep is a true hero.
[*Name and spelling not confirmed.]
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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
