Oscar Winers 2009 – Art Direction – CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Donald Graham Burt (Art Direction); Victor J. Zolfo (Set Decoration)
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Burt: Wow. We’d like to thank the Academy for this wonderful honor. We first & foremost want to thank our crews that we had in our art departments, and those crews were in New Orleans, in Montreal, in St. Thomas, & here in Los Angeles. We want to thank our producers, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marhsall and my dear friend of many years, Ceán Chaffin. And I said at another awards ceremony that our producers were great because they did what every producer should ever do & that is leave us alone.
I want to recognize one person who’s been very special to me over these last few years & somebody that I just think is a brilliant director & even more so a wonderful human being, and that’s my friend David Fincher. And I want to recognize him because I think he did so much to make this movie so special. And this movie means so much to me & I want him to know that. I thank, um, that’s it. I want to thank my lovely wife for everything she’s done for me.
Zolfo: Thank you, everybody, & thank you, Academy. And thank you mom & dad. I love you.
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Donald Graham Burt & Victor J. Zolfo.
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