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Academy Awards, USA: 1969

Oscar

Date:14 April
Host:(none)
Location:Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:
  • Beginning this year the ceremony is telecasted throughout the world.

Best Picture
  Winner:
 
  Other Nominees:
 
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Ray Stark
  • Lion in Winter, The (1968) - Martin Poll
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Paul Newman (I)
  • Romeo and Juliet (1968/I) - Anthony Havelock-Allan; John Brabourne

  • Best Actor in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Fixer, The (1968) - Alan Bates (I)
  • Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968) - Alan Arkin
  • Lion in Winter, The (1968) - Peter O'Toole (I)
  • Oliver! (1968) - Ron Moody

  • Best Actress in a Leading Role
      Winners:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Isadora (1968) - Vanessa Redgrave
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Joanne Woodward (I)
  • Subject Was Roses, The (1968) - Patricia Neal

  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Faces (1968/I) - Seymour Cassel
  • Oliver! (1968) - Jack Wild (I)
  • Producers, The (1968) - Gene Wilder
  • Star! (1968) - Daniel Massey (I)

  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Faces (1968/I) - Lynn Carlin
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Kay Medford
  • Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968) - Sondra Locke
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Estelle Parsons

  • Best Director
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
  • Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Lion in Winter, The (1968) - Anthony Harvey (II)
  • Romeo and Juliet (1968/I) - Franco Zeffirelli

  • Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick; Arthur C. Clarke
  • Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966) - Franco Solinas; Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Faces (1968/I) - John Cassavetes
  • Hot Millions (1968) - Ira Wallach; Peter Ustinov

  • Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Odd Couple, The (1968) - Neil Simon
  • Oliver! (1968) - Vernon Harris
  • Rachel, Rachel (1968) - Stewart Stern
  • Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Roman Polanski

  • Best Cinematography
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Harry Stradling Sr.
  • Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Daniel L. Fapp
  • Oliver! (1968) - Oswald Morris
  • Star! (1968) - Ernest Laszlo

  • Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Anthony Masters (I); Harry Lange; Ernest Archer
  • Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968/I) - George W. Davis; Edward C. Carfagno
  • Star! (1968) - Boris Leven; Walter M. Scott; Howard Bristol
  • Voyna i mir (1967) - Mikhail Bogdanov; Gennadi Myasnikov; Georgi Koshelev; V. Uvarov

  • Best Costume Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Lion in Winter, The (1968) - Margaret Furse
  • Oliver! (1968) - Phyllis Dalton
  • Planet of the Apes (1968) - Morton Haack
  • Star! (1968) - Donald Brooks

  • Best Sound
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bullitt (1968) - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts SSD
  • Finian's Rainbow (1968) - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts SSD
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Columbia SSD
  • Star! (1968) - 20th Century-Fox SSD

  • Best Film Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Robert Swink; Maury Winetrobe; William Sands
  • Odd Couple, The (1968) - Frank Bracht
  • Oliver! (1968) - Ralph Kemplen
  • Wild in the Streets (1968) - Fred R. Feitshans Jr.; Eve Newman

  • Best Effects, Special Visual Effects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Hal Millar; J. McMillan Johnson

  • Best Music, Original Song
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - Richard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman
    - For the song "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
  • For Love of Ivy (1968) - Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (II) (lyrics)
    - For the song "For Love of Ivy".
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Jule Styne (music); Bob Merrill (lyrics)
    - For the song "Funny Girl".
  • Star! (1968) - Jimmy Van Heusen (music); Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
    - For the song "Star!".

  • Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967) - Michel Legrand (I); Jacques Demy
  • Finian's Rainbow (1968) - Ray Heindorf
  • Funny Girl (1968) - Walter Scharf
  • Star! (1968) - Lennie Hayton

  • Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Fox, The (1967) - Lalo Schifrin
  • Planet of the Apes (1968) - Jerry Goldsmith
  • Shoes of the Fisherman, The (1968/I) - Alex North
  • Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) - Michel Legrand (I)

  • Best Short Subject, Cartoons
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Magic Pear Tree, The (1968) - Jimmy T. Murakami
  • Maison de Jean-Jacques, La (1968) - Wolf Koenig; Jim Mackay
  • Windy Day (1968) - John Hubley; Faith Hubley

  • Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • De Düva: The Dove (1968) - George Coe; Sidney Davis; Anthony Lover
  • Pas de deux (1968) - National Film Board of Canada
  • Prelude (1968) - John Astin

  • Best Documentary, Short Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • House That Ananda Built, The (1968) - Fali Bilimoria
  • Revolving Door, The (1968) - Lee R. Bobker
  • Space to Grow, A (1968) - Thomas P. Kelly Jr.
  • Way Out of the Wilderness, A (1968) - Dan E. Weisburd

  • Best Documentary, Features
      Winner:
     
    • Journey Into Self (1968) - Bill McGaw
      - Was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969 as the runner-up, after the Board of Governors determined 'Young Americans' to be ineligible and vacated its win.
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Few Notes on Our Food Problem, A (1968) - James Blue
  • Legendary Champions (1968) - William Cayton
  • Other Voices (1970) - David H. Sawyer
  • Young Americans (1967) - Robert Cohn (I); Alexander Grasshoff
    - In 1969, the academy took back the golden statuette from documentary winner The Young Americans, because it was found that it had been released too early to be eligible for the 1968 Oscars.

  • Best Foreign Language Film
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Baisers volés (1968)
    - France.
  • Horí, má panenko (1967)
    - Czechoslovakia.
  • Pál-utcai fiúk, A (1969)
    - Hungary.
  • Ragazza con la pistola, La (1968)
    - Italy.

  • Honorary Award

      Awarded to:
     

    Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

      Awarded to:
     

    Academy Award of Merit

      Winners:
     
    • Eastman Kodak Co.
      - For the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.
    • Philip V. Palmquist (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.); Herbert Meyer (II) (Motion Picture and Television Research Center); Charles Staffell (Rank Organisation)
      - For the development of a successful embodiment of the reflex background projection system for composite cinematography.

    Scientific and Engineering Award

      Winners:
     
    • Eastman Kodak Co.; Producers Service Co.
      - For the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.
    • Eastman Kodak Co.
      - For the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.
    • Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc.
      - For the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.
    • Panavision, Inc.
      - For the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera.
    • Todd-AO Co.; Mitchell Camera Co.
      - For the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera.
    • Ed Di Giulio (Cinema Product Development Company); Neils G. Petersen (Cinema Product Development Company); Norman S. Hughes (Cinema Product Development Company)
      - For the design and application of a conversion which makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras.
    • Donald W. Norwood
      - For the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.

    Technical Achievement Award

      Winners:
     
    • Eastman Kodak Co.; Consolidated Film Industries
      - For a new direct positive film (Eastman Kodak) and for the application of this film to the making of post-production work prints (Consolidated Film).
    • Carl W. Hauge (Consolidated Film Industries); Edward H. Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries); E. Michael Meahl (Ramtronics); Roy J. Ridenour (Ramtronics)
      - For engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps.