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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:
	Oliver! (1968) - John Woolf (I)
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:
	Charly (1968) - Cliff Robertson - Cliff Robertson was not present at the Awards ceremony. Gregory Peck accepted the award on his behalf.
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:
	Funny Girl (1968) - Barbra Streisand Lion in Winter, The (1968) - Katharine Hepburn - Hepburn became the third performer to win consecutive awards, and the first to win three awards for lead roles.
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:
	Subject Was Roses, The (1968) - Jack Albertson
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:
	Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Ruth Gordon (I)
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:
	Oliver! (1968) - Carol Reed (I)
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:
	Producers, The (1968) - Mel Brooks
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:
	Lion in Winter, The (1968) - James Goldman (I)
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:
	Romeo and Juliet (1968/I) - Pasqualino De Santis
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:
	Oliver! (1968) - John Box; Terence Marsh; Vernon Dixon; Ken Muggleston
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:
	Romeo and Juliet (1968/I) - Danilo Donati
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:
	Oliver! (1968) - Shepperton SSD
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:
	Bullitt (1968) - Frank P. Keller
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:
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
Other Nominees:
	Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Hal Millar; J. McMillan Johnson

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968) - Michel Legrand (I) (music); Alan Bergman (lyrics); Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) - For the song "The Windmills of Your Mind".
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:
	Oliver! (1968) - Johnny Green (I)
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:
	Lion in Winter, The (1968) - John Barry (I)
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:
	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) - Walt Disney - The award was given posthumous.
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:
	Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968) - Charles Guggenheim
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:
	Why Man Creates (1968) - Saul Bass
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:
	Voyna i mir (1967) - Russia.
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:
	Oliver! (1968) - Onna White - For her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!. Planet of the Apes (1968) - John Chambers (I) - For his outstanding make-up achievement in the movie.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award


Awarded to:
	Martha Raye

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.