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Year: 1999 (72nd) Academy Awards

Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Film Title: The Cider House Rules

Winner: John Irving

Presenter: Kevin Spacey

Date & Venue: March 26, 2000; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center


JOHN IRVING:
Well, you must be trying to get me to reconsider my day job. I want to thank the Academy for this honor to a film on the abortion subject and Miramax for having the courage to make this movie in the first place. But especially my wife Janet, my children, Colin, Everett and Brendan -- thank you, Brendan, for coming all this way. My best friend, David Colicchio*. The producer, Richard Gladstein. The director, Lasse Hallström, with whom I would work again in a second. And everyone at Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights League.

[*Spelling not confirmed.]

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