The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners
Held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Tuesday, April 7, 1970,
honoring movies released in 1969.
Best Actor John Wayne ("True Grit").
Actor
- Richard Burton in "Anne of the Thousand Days"
- Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy"
- Peter O'Toole in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
- Jon Voight in "Midnight Cowboy"
- John Wayne in "True Grit"
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Rupert Crosse in "The Reivers"
- Elliott Gould in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
- Jack Nicholson in "Easy Rider"
- Anthony Quayle in "Anne of the Thousand Days"
- Gig Young in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
Actress
- Genevieve Bujold in "Anne of the Thousand Days"
- Jane Fonda in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
- Liza Minnelli in "The Sterile Cuckoo"
- Jean Simmons in "The Happy Ending"
- Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Catherine Burns in "Last Summer"
- Dyan Cannon in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
- Goldie Hawn in "Cactus Flower"
- Sylvia Miles in "Midnight Cowboy"
- Susannah York in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
Art Direction
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Art Direction: Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin
- "Gaily, Gaily" Art Direction: Robert Boyle, George B. Chan; Set Decoration: Edward Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe
- "Hello, Dolly!" Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton
- "Sweet Charity" Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy
Cinematography
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Arthur Ibbetson
- "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" Charles B. Lang
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Conrad Hall
- "Hello, Dolly!" Harry Stradling
- "Marooned" Daniel Fapp
Costume Design
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Margaret Furse
- "Gaily, Gaily" Ray Aghayan
- "Hello, Dolly!" Irene Sharaff
- "Sweet Charity" Edith Head
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Donfeld
Directing
- "Alice's Restaurant" Arthur Penn
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" George Roy Hill
- "Midnight Cowboy" John Schlesinger
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Sydney Pollack
- "Z" Costa-Gavras
Documentary (Feature)
- "Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life" Bernard Chevry, Producer
- "Before the Mountain Was Moved" Robert K. Sharpe, Producer
- "In the Year of the Pig" Emile de Antonio, Producer
- "The Olympics in Mexico" Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
- "The Wolf Men" Irwin Rosten, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
- "Czechoslovakia 1968" Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
- "An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer" Donald Wrye, Producer
- "Jenny Is a Good Thing" Joan Horvath, Producer
- "Leo Beuerman" Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser, Producers
- "The Magic Machines" Joan Keller Stern, Producer
Film Editing
- "Hello, Dolly!" William Reynolds
- "Midnight Cowboy" Hugh A. Robertson
- "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" William Lyon, Earle Herdan
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Fredric Steinkamp
- "Z" Françoise Bonnot
Foreign Language Film
- "Ådalen '31" Sweden
- "The Battle of Neretva" Yugoslavia
- "The Brothers Karamazov" Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- "My Night at Maud's" France
- "Z" Algeria
Music (Original Score – for a motion picture [not a musical])
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Georges Delerue
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Burt Bacharach
- "The Reivers" John Williams
- "The Secret of Santa Vittoria" Ernest Gold
- "The Wild Bunch" Jerry Fielding
Music (Score of a Musical Picture – original or adaptation)
- "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by John Williams
- "Hello, Dolly!" Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman
- "Paint Your Wagon" Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle
- "Sweet Charity" Adaptation score by Cy Coleman
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Adaptation score by John Green and Albert Woodbury
Music (Song – Original for the Picture)
- "Come Saturday Morning" from "The Sterile Cuckoo" Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Dory Previn
- "Jean" from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
- "True Grit" from "True Grit" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Don Black
- "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from "The Happy Ending" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Best Picture
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Hal B. Wallis, Producer
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" John Foreman, Producer
- "Hello, Dolly!" Ernest Lehman, Producer
- "Midnight Cowboy" Jerome Hellman, Producer
- "Z" Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, Producers
Short Subject (Cartoon)
- "It's Tough to Be a Bird" Ward Kimball, Producer
- "Of Men and Demons" John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers
- "Walking" Ryan Larkin, Producer
Short Subject (Live Action)
- "Blake" Doug Jackson, Producer
- "The Magic Machines" Joan Keller Stern, Producer
- "People Soup" Marc Merson, Producer
Sound
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" John Aldred
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" William Edmondson, David Dockendorf
- "Gaily, Gaily" Robert Martin, Clem Portman
- "Hello, Dolly!" Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack
- "Marooned" Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi
Special Visual Effects
- "Krakatoa, East of Java" Eugene Lourie, Alex Weldon
- "Marooned" Robbie Robertson
Writing (Screenplay – based on material from another medium)
- "Anne of the Thousand Days" Screenplay by John Hale, Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove
- "Goodbye, Columbus" Arnold Schulman
- "Midnight Cowboy" Waldo Salt
- "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
- "Z" Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
Writing (Story and Screenplay – based on material not previously published or produced)
- "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
- "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" William Goldman
- "The Damned" Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
- "Easy Rider" Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
- "The Wild Bunch" Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah
- Star indicates a win.
