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Way ace dramas recollected (including director)? (7,6)

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academy awards

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'way ace dramas recollected including director?' is the definition.
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'way ace dramas recollected including director?' is the wordplay.
'recollected' indicates anagramming the letters (letters recollected and rearranged).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'director?' becomes 'd' (abbreviation eg in film reviews).
'way'+'ace'+'dramas'='wayacedramas'
'wayacedramas' is an anagram of 'academyawars'.
'academyawars' placed around 'd' is 'ACADEMY AWARDS'.

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(Other definitions for academy awards that I've seen before include "prizes for pictures will be obtained!" , "Oscars" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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