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Year: 2008 (81st) Academy Awards

Category: Foreign Language Film

Film Title: Departures

Winner: Japan (accepted by director Yojiro Takita; accompanied on stage by producer Yasuhiro Mase, actors Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue, and translator)

Presenter: Liam Neeson, Freida Pinto

Date & Venue: February 22, 2009; Kodak Theatre

YOJIRO TAKITA:
Thank you to all the Academy. Thank you to everybody who helped me with this film. I'm very, very happy. Thank you. I am here because of films. This is a new "departure" for me and I will, we will be back, I hope. Thank you. Arigato. Thank you.

© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]

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