2007 (80th) ACADEMY AWARDS
Award Category: Foreign Language Film
Film Title: The Counterfeiters
Winner(s): Austria
Acceptor note: accepted by director Stefan Ruzowitzky
Award Presenter(s): Penélope Cruz
STEFAN RUZOWITZKY:
Thank you very much. There have been some great Austrian filmmakers working here, thinking of Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Preminger. Most of them had to leave my country because of the Nazis, so it sort of makes sense that the first Austrian movie to win an Oscar is about the Nazis' crimes. Making this movie, I had a most brilliant cast, a wonderful crew, the best of all families to support me at home; so actually, it was easy for me. Thank you very much.----------------------------------
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