Akira Kurosawa, John Huston and Billy Wilder are presenting best picture at the 1985 Oscars. Kurosawa is nearly blind, Huston has been attached to an oxygen machine while seated because of his emphyzema, only Wilder is fairly spry.
The nominees are listed, and they get the envelope. Huston doesn't even try to open it, hands it to Kurosawa. It is beyond his capacity to tear it open. Wilder grabs it, rips it open, announces Out of Africa as the winner.
Sydney Pollack returns to the stage, makes his speech. He then goes with the three titans as they go offstage.
He then hears Billy Wilder say, loud enough only for the four of them to hear - "They had no problem bombing Pearl Harbor, but they can't tear open a fucking envelope." Pollack bursts out laughing, not at all certain if Kurosawa's limited English caught what Wilder was saying.
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