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Year: 2000 (73rd) Academy Awards

Category: Visual Effects

Film Title: Gladiator

Winner: John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey

Presenter: Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh

Date & Venue: March 25, 2001; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center

JOHN NELSON:
Wow! Thank you, members of the Academy, for this great honor. First and foremost, I'd like to thank our director Ridley Scott for his genius, vision, leadership and trust. I'd like to thank all my great team at Mill Film London who did the visual effects: Tim Burke, Rob Harvey, Laurent Huguenolt, Nikki Penny, Emma Norton, Nancy St. John, to Bill Schultz, a ton of other people I'm just forgetting right now. I'd like to thank our great practical and prosthetic effect team of Neil Corbould's, with Neil Corbould, Paul and Ian Corbould, Trevor Wood, John Evans, Michelle Taylor and Dave Hunter. I'd like to thank everyone at DreamWorks and Universal. They're a class act, a pleasure to work with. I'd like to thank my wife Deborah, my son Miles, my mom in heaven, my dad and family in Detroit. Happy birthday, Dad, I love you.

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

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