The 42nd Academy Awards (1969): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
10 9 7 7 7 5 4 3 3 3	Anne of the Thousand Days They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Midnight Cowboy Z Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Gaily, Gaily Marooned Sweet Charity	4 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Midnight Cowboy Z Anne of the Thousand Days Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life Cactus Flower Czechoslovakia 1968 It's Tough to Be a Bird The Magic Machines Marooned The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie They Shoot Horses, Don't They? True Grit
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Anne of the Thousand Days - Hal B. Wallis
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - John Foreman
• Hello, Dolly! - Ernest Lehman
• Midnight Cowboy - Jerome Hellman
• Z - Jacques Perrin, Hamed Rachedi

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

ACTOR

• Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
• Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
• John Wayne - True Grit

ACTRESS

• Genevieve Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo
• Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending
• Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Rupert Crosse - The Reivers
• Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider
• Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days
• Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Catherine Burns - Last Summer
• Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower
• Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy
• Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (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

STORY AND SCREENPLAY (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

SONG (Song--Original for the Picture)

• "Come Saturday Morning" - The Sterile Cuckoo - Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Dory Previn
• "Jean" - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Music, Lyrics by Rod McKuen
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
• "True Grit" - True Grit - Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Don Black
• "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" - The Happy Ending - Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman

ORIGINAL SCORE (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

ORIGINAL SCORE (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation)

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Music, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; Adaptation Score by John Williams
• Hello, Dolly! - Adaptation Score by Lennie Hayton, 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, Albert Woodbury

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 - Franoise Bonnot

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

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

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

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

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• dalen '31 - Sweden
• The Battle of Neretva - Yugoslavia
• The Brothers Karamazov - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• My Night at Maud's - France [1]
• Z - Algeria

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life - Bernard Chevry
• Before the Mountain Was Moved - Robert K. Sharpe
• In the Year of the Pig - Emile de Antonio
• The Olympics in Mexico - Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
• The Wolf Men - Irwin Rosten

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco
• An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer - Donald Wrye
• Jenny Is a Good Thing - Joan Horvath
• Leo Beuerman - Arthur H. Wolf, Russell A. Mosser
• The Magic Machines - Joan Keller Stern

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

• It's Tough to Be a Bird - Ward Kimball
• Of Men and Demons - John Hubley, Faith Hubley
• Walking - Ryan Larkin

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

• Blake - Doug Jackson
• The Magic Machines - Joan Keller Stern
• People Soup - Marc Merson

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

• George Jessel

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To HAZELTINE CORPORATION for the design and development of the Hazeltine Color Film Analyzer. [Laboratory]
• To JUAN DE LA CIERVA and DYNASCIENCES CORPORATION for the design and development of the Dynalens optical image motion compensator. [Photography]
• To FOUAD SAID for the design and introduction of the Cinemobile series of equipment trucks for location motion picture production. [Stage Operations]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the design and development of the Panaspeed Motion Picture Camera Motor. [Camera]
• To FENTON HAMILTON of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for the concept and engineering of a mobile battery power unit for location lighting. [Lighting]
• To OTTO POPELKA of Magna-Tech Electronics Company, Inc., for the development of an Electronically Controlled Looping System. [Sound]
• To ROBERT M. FLYNN and RUSSELL HESSEY of Universal City Studios, Inc. for a machine-gun modification for motion picture photography. [Stage Operations]

ACADEMY NOTES

1. Film received its 1969 nomination under the title 'My Night with Maud.' It had no US distributor at the time.