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.