Onstage Speech Transcript | 81st Academy Awards

Best foreign language film of the year

CATEGORY: Best foreign language film of the year
FILM: "Departures" (Japan)

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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. Thank you.

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