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Year: 2009 (82nd) Academy Awards

Category: Art Direction

Film Title: Avatar

Winner: Production Design: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Presenter: Sigourney Weaver

Date & Venue: March 7, 2010; Kodak Theatre

RICK CARTER:
Jim Cameron, this Oscar sees you. Clearly. Your vision is so deep.

ROBERT STROMBERG:
You know, thirteen years ago, doctors told me I wasn't going to survive, and I thought that this dream of standing here would never come true. And here we are. I owe this to my amazing wife Lizz, my two kids, Reece* and Remi*, for supporting me. Brooke Breton, Rick Carter and the hundreds of people that it took to make this film, thank you. Special thanks to Jon Landau. Jim, every day we went to work we knew we were working with a genius. We really were. We all felt that. Thank you so much.

[*Spelling not confirmed.]

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