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Year: 2000 (73rd) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
Film Title: Traffic
Winner: Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan
Presenter: Arthur C. Clarke (via satellite from Sri Lanka), Tom Hanks (on stage)
Date & Venue: March 25, 2001; Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center
STEPHEN GAGHAN:
If I made up a story where someone like me would find himself somewhere like this, nobody would believe it. Nobody here. I have to thank my girlfriend Michael, our son Gardner. I'd like to thank the Academy. My parents, Tom and Betty Hague* of Louisville, Kentucky, who are somewhere up there in the balcony, I hope. I have to thank all the filmmakers. Steven Soderbergh, the director, who took every single thing I could give him and asked for more and inspired me. Producers Ed Zwick, Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz. I have something here that [pulling out his notes], I have to make sure that I... USA Pictures, Scott Greenstein, Russell Schwartz and everybody in the cast and crew. And most importantly, four years ago a lot of people reached out their hands to me and helped me out, and this is for you, guys. Thanks.
[*Spelling not confirmed.]
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