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