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Year: 1957 (30th) Academy Awards

Category: Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

Film Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Winner: Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle (Boulle not present; accepted by Kim Novak)

Presenter: Doris Day, Clark Gable

Date & Venue: March 26, 1958; RKO Pantages Theatre


KIM NOVAK:
My boss, the late Mr. Harry Cohn, was very, very proud of this film, "Bridge on the River Kwai," as all of us at Columbia are. And I'm very honored and very happy to accept this award for Pierre Boulle. Thank you.

[Ed. note: At the time of the ceremony only Mr. Boulle was credited with the award; then-blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman were voted posthumous Oscars by the Academy Board of Governors on 12/11/1984.]

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