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Year: 2007 (80th) Academy Awards
Category: Foreign Language Film
Film Title: The Counterfeiters
Winner: Austria (accepted by director Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Presenter: Penélope Cruz
Date & Venue: February 24, 2008; Kodak Theatre
STEFAN RUZOWITZKY:
Thank you very much. There have been some great Austrian filmmakers working here, thinking of Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Preminger. Most of them had to leave my country because of the Nazis, so it sort of makes sense that the first Austrian movie to win an Oscar is about the Nazis' crimes. Making this movie, I had a most brilliant cast, a wonderful crew, the best of all families to support me at home; so actually it was easy for me. Thank you very much.
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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
