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“We try to keep the Oscar show to three hours. . . . The length is determined by the thank-you speeches, which we keep to 45 seconds. Mine tonight ran 50 seconds, but don’t tell anyone.”
Jeff Margolis, director of Monday’s Oscar telecast, after he won a Directors Guild award for directing last year’s Oscar show
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