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Academy Awards

41st edition

  • April 14, 1969
  • United States

The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968. They were the first Oscars to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards.

Awards

Movie People Status
Best Picture
Oliver! John Woolf - as producer(s) Winner
Funny Girl Ray Stark - as producer(s) —
The Lion in Winter Martin Poll - as producer(s) —
Rachel, Rachel Paul Newman - as producer(s) —
Romeo and Juliet John Brabourne, Anthony Havelock-Allan - as producer(s) —
Best Director
Oliver! Carol Reed Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick —
The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo —
The Lion in Winter Anthony Harvey —
Romeo and Juliet Franco Zeffirelli —
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Charly Cliff Robertson Winner
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Alan Arkin —
The Fixer Alan Bates —
Oliver! Ron Moody —
The Lion in Winter Peter O'Toole —
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Lion in Winter Katharine Hepburn Winner
Funny Girl Barbra Streisand Winner
The Subject Was Roses Patricia Neal —
Isadora Vanessa Redgrave —
Rachel, Rachel Joanne Woodward —
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Subject Was Roses Jack Albertson Winner
Faces Seymour Cassel —
Star! Daniel Massey —
Oliver! Jack Wild —
The Producers Gene Wilder —
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Rosemary's Baby Ruth Gordon Winner
Faces Lynn Carlin —
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Sondra Locke —
Funny Girl Kay Medford —
Rachel, Rachel Estelle Parsons —
Best Original Screenplay
The Producers Mel Brooks Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke —
The Battle of Algiers Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo —
Faces John Cassavetes —
Hot Millions Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov —
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Lion in Winter James Goldman Winner
The Odd Couple Neil Simon —
Oliver! Vernon Harris —
Rachel, Rachel Stewart Stern —
Rosemary's Baby Roman Polanski —
Best Documentary Feature Film
Journey Into Self Bill McGaw Winner
A Few Notes on Our Food Problem U.S. Information Agency —
Legendary Champions William Cayton —
Other Voices David H. Sawyer —
Best International Feature Film
War and Peace — Winner
The Boys of Paul Street — —
The Firemen's Ball — —
The Girl with a Pistol — —
Stolen Kisses — —
Original Score - For a Motion Picture (Not a Musical)
The Lion in Winter John Barry Winner
The Fox Lalo Schifrin —
Planet of the Apes Jerry Goldsmith —
The Shoes of the Fisherman Alex North —
The Thomas Crown Affair Michel Legrand —
Best Cinematography
Romeo and Juliet Pasqualino De Santis Winner
Funny Girl Harry Stradling —
Ice Station Zebra Daniel L. Fapp —
Oliver! Oswald Morris —
Star! Ernest Laszlo —
Scoring of a Musical Picture - Original or Adaptation
Oliver! Johnny Green Winner
Finian's Rainbow Ray Heindorf —
Funny Girl Walter Scharf —
Star! Lennie Hayton —
The Young Girls of Rochefort Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy —
Best Film Editing
Bullitt Frank P. Keller Winner
Funny Girl Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands —
The Odd Couple Frank Bracht —
Oliver! Ralph Kemplen —
Wild in the Streets Fred R. Feitshans Jr., Eve Newman —
Best Sound
Oliver! Shepperton Studio Sound Dept. Winner
Bullitt Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept. —
Finian's Rainbow Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept. —
Funny Girl Columbia Studio Sound Dept. —
Star! Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept. —
Best Original Song
The Thomas Crown Affair Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman - "The Windmills of Your Mind" Winner
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" —
For Love of Ivy Quincy Jones, Bob Russell - "For Love of Ivy" —
Funny Girl Jule Styne, Bob Merrill - "Funny Girl" —
Star! Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn - "Star!" —
Best Production Design
Oliver! John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey Anthony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest Archer —
The Shoes of the Fisherman George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno —
Star! Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol —
War and Peace Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, G. Koshelev, V. Uvarov —
Best Costume Design
Romeo and Juliet Danilo Donati Winner
The Lion in Winter Margaret Furse —
Oliver! Phyllis Dalton —
Planet of the Apes Morton Haack —
Star! Donald Brooks —
Best Special Effects
2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick Winner
Ice Station Zebra Hal Millar, Joseph McMillan Johnson —
Best Short Film (Live Action)
Robert Kennedy Remembered Guggenheim Productions Winner
The Dove Coe-Davis Ltd. —
Duo National Film Board of Canada —
Prelude Prelude Co. —
Best Documentary Short Film
Why Man Creates Saul Bass Winner
The House That Ananda Built Films Division (Government of India) —
The Revolving Door Vision Associates Production for the American Foundation Institute of Corrections —
A Space to Grow Office of Economic Opportunity for Project Upward Bound —
A Way Out of the Wilderness Dan E. Weisburd —
Best Animated Short Film
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Walt Disney Winner
The House That Jack Built National Film Board of Canada —
The Magic Pear Tree Murakami-Wolf Films —
Windy Day Hubley Studios —
Honorary Award
— John Chambers - for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes. Winner
— Onna White - for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!. Winner
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
— Martha Raye Winner

Oliver!
Statistics

Most Awarded

2 or more wins
  • Oliver! 5
  • The Lion in Winter 3
  • Romeo and Juliet 2

Most Nominated

3 or more nominations
  • Oliver! 11
  • Funny Girl 8
  • The Lion in Winter 7
  • Star! 7
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey 4
  • Rachel, Rachel 4
  • Romeo and Juliet 4
  • Faces 3

Most Unluckiest

wins / nominations
  • Funny Girl 1 / 8
  • Star! 0 / 7
  • Oliver! 5 / 11
  • The Lion in Winter 3 / 7
  • Rachel, Rachel 0 / 4
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey 1 / 4
  • Faces 0 / 3
  • Romeo and Juliet 2 / 4

Only one nomination

30 movies:
  • The Boys of Paul Street
  • Charly
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • The Dove
  • Duo
  • A Few Notes on Our Food Problem
  • The Firemen's Ball
  • The Fixer
  • For Love of Ivy
  • The Fox
  • The Girl with a Pistol
  • Hot Millions
  • The House That Ananda Built
  • The House That Jack Built
  • Isadora
  • Journey Into Self
  • Legendary Champions
  • The Magic Pear Tree
  • Other Voices
  • Prelude
  • The Revolving Door
  • Robert Kennedy Remembered
  • A Space to Grow
  • Stolen Kisses
  • A Way Out of the Wilderness
  • Why Man Creates
  • Wild in the Streets
  • Windy Day
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

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