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Year: 1997 (70th) Academy Awards
Category: Foreign Language Film
Film Title: Character
Winner: The Netherlands (accepted by director Mike van Diem)
Presenter: Sharon Stone
Date & Venue: March 23, 1998; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center
MIKE VAN DIEM:
[Gives presenter Sharon Stone a hug.] Okay, Sharon, it's just, you know, another crazy Dutch director, you know. The film is "Character." It opens next Friday. I'm not going to advertise it. This ought to tell you that it probably has, you know, like damn stunning subtitles. Three guys who over a period of the last two years really build my "Character" -- yes, you are signaling to me to be fast, I'll be fast -- build my "Character" were my great and wonderful, handsome producer Laurens Geels, my young, talented actor Fedja van Huêt, and the legendary Jan Decleir -- he's really Belgium's "Titanic." I will salute everybody. My crew and my cast, who is watching this at home. [Unintelligible], Sony Pictures Classics, the Academy. And as a personal note, my dear friend Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh, I just know you are smiling down on me now, man. Look what I got! Yes!
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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
