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Year: 2009 (82nd) Academy Awards
Category: Documentary (Short Subject)
Film Title: Music by Prudence
Winner: Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Presenter: Carey Mulligan, Zoë Saldana
Date & Venue: March 7, 2010; Kodak Theatre
ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS:
Oh my god. This is amazing. Two years ago when I got on an airplane and went to Zimbabwe, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I'd end up here. This is so exciting—
ELINOR BURKETT:
Don't you like that the man never lets the woman talk. Isn't that just the classic thing? You know, in a world in which most of us are told and tell ourselves that we can't, Liyana, the band behind this film, teaches us that we're wrong. Against all odds, they did, so we can. So the bottom line is, to me, my role models and my heroes: Marvelous, and Energy, Tapiwa, Goodwell, the whole rest of the band, and especially Prudence.
ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS:
And Prudence, who is here, who is back there tonight. Prudence is here tonight. This is for Prudence.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
