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- ↑ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ↑ "Foreign Oscar entries submitted". Variety. 3 December 1992. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ↑ "The Classical Modernist: Manoel de Oliveira". Film Comment. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
