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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
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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