Awards for 1969
Oscar
Best Picture
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Actress in a Leading Role
WINNERS
NOMINEES
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Director
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Cinematography
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Costume Design
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Sound
WINNER
NOMINEES
Bullitt: (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts SSD)
Star!: (20th Century-Fox SSD)
Best Film Editing
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Effects, Special Visual Effects
WINNER
NOMINEE
Best Music, Original Song
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Short Subject, Cartoons
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
WINNER
NOMINEES
Best Documentary, Features
WINNER
Journey Into Self: 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.
NOMINEES
Young Americans: Robert Cohn,
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
NOMINEES
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
WINNER
Academy Award of Merit
WINNERS
Philip V. Palmquist (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.), Herbert Meyer (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.
(Eastman Kodak Co.)
For the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.
Scientific and Engineering Award
WINNERS
Donald W. Norwood
For the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.
(Eastman Kodak Co., Producers Service Co.)
For the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.
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.
(Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc.)
For the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.
(Eastman Kodak Co.)
For the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.
(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.
Technical Achievement Award
WINNERS
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.
(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).
company.