42nd Academy Awards
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1. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 120,771 | Gross: $44.79M
Winner - Best Picture Winner - Best Director for John Schlesinger Nominated - Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman Nominated - Best Actor for Jon Voight Nominated - Best Nominated Actress for Sylvia Miles Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Waldo Salt Nominated - Best Film Editing for Hugh A. Robertson
2. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 8,112 | Gross: $2.07M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Actor for Richard Burton Nominated - Best Actress for Geneviève Bujold Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Quayle Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for John Hale, Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Georges Delerue Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for John Aldred Winner - Best Costume Design for Margaret Furse Nominated- Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Cinematography for Arthur Ibbetson
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
Votes: 226,704 | Gross: $102.31M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for George Roy Hill Winner - Best Original Screenplay for William Goldman Winner - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Burt Bacharach Winner - Best Original Song for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for William Edmondson and David Dockendorf Winner - Best Cinematography for Conrad L. Hall
4. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
G | 146 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew
Votes: 16,962 | Gross: $7.24M
Nominated - Best Picture Winner - Best Original or Adaptation Score Winner - Best Sound Mixing for Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack Nominated - Best Costume Design for Irene Sharaff Winner - Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Cinematography for Harry Stradling Nominated - Best Film Editing for William H. Reynolds
5. Z (1969)
M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer
Votes: 31,344 | Gross: $0.08M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for Costa-Gavras Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras Winner - Best Foreign Language (Algeria) Winner - Best Film Editing for Françoise Bonnot
6. Alice's Restaurant (1969)
GP | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger
Votes: 4,646 | Gross: $13.99M
Nominated - Best Director for Arthur Penn
7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
M | 129 min | Drama
The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young
Votes: 20,848 | Gross: $12.60M
Nominated - Best Director for Sydney Pollack Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Fonda Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Gig Young Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Susannah York Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for James Poe and Robert E. Thompson Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score Nominated - Best Costume Design for Donfeld Nominated - Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Film Editing for Fredric Steinkamp
8. True Grit (1969)
G | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeremy Slate
Votes: 51,434 | Gross: $31.13M
Winner - Best Actor for John Wayne Nominated - Best Original Song for "True Grit"
9. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
G | 155 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker
Votes: 3,824 | Gross: $2.55M
Nominated - Best Actor for Peter O'Toole Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
M/PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
Votes: 9,861
Winner - Best Actress for Maggie Smith Nominated - Best Original Song for "Jean"
11. The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
M | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this romantic comedy, an eccentric girl forces a reluctant college student into an affair.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Anita Alberts
Votes: 2,416 | Gross: $13.98M
Nominated - Best Actress for Liza Minnelli Nominated - Best Original Song for "Come Saturday Morning"
12. The Happy Ending (1969)
R | 117 min | Drama
A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 1,258
Nominated - Best Actress for Jean Simmons Nominated - Best Original Song for "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
13. The Reivers (1969)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine
Votes: 3,296 | Gross: $18.70M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Rupert Crosse Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for John Williams
14. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Trendy West Coasters Bob and Carol try wife-swapping with square Ted and Alice.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Votes: 7,272 | Gross: $31.90M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Elliot Gould Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Dyan Cannon Nominated - Best Original Screenplay Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker Nominated - Best Cinematography for Charles Lang
15. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 116,935 | Gross: $41.73M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
16. Cactus Flower (1969)
M | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston
Votes: 11,890 | Gross: $25.89M
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Goldie Hawn
17. Last Summer (1969)
R | 95 min | Drama
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
Votes: 2,151 | Gross: $2.37M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Burns
18. The Damned (1969)
R | 157 min | Drama, War
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Votes: 9,926 | Gross: $0.63M
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti
19. The Wild Bunch (1969)
R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 90,352 | Gross: $12.06M
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner and Sam Peckinpah Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Jerry Fielding
20. Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Votes: 2,322 | Gross: $22.94M
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Arnold Schulman
21. Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life (1969)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
An Oscar winning look at the life of Albert Rubinstein shortly after he turned 70. It contains some home movies of him and his family, but is primarily him talking and demonstrating his great skill as a pianist.
Directors: Gérard Patris, François Reichenbach | Stars: Artur Rubinstein, Eliahu Inbal, Paul Kletzki
Votes: 136
Winner - Best Documentary Feature
22. Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970)
60 min | Documentary, Drama
A group of poor people in Raleigh County, West Virginia organize when strip mining is damaging their houses and community. They work to get the state legislature to pass some strong laws protecting citizens against coal mining interests.
Director: Robert K. Sharpe
Votes: 45
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
23. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Votes: 1,917
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
24. The Olympics in Mexico (1969)
G | 120 min | Documentary, Sport
Mexican former Olympic swimmer Alberto Isaac's record of Mexico 68 is a celebration not of national achievement, but of individual heroism. This thoughtful and comprehensive film bristles with offbeat moments and yields iconic images.
Director: Alberto Isaac | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Roberto Morales
Votes: 144
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
25. The Wolf Men (1969)
60 min | Documentary
Naturalists fight to save rapidly vanishing species of wolves.
Director: Irwin Rosten | Star: James Coburn
Votes: 23
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
26. Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 (1969)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
Directors: Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders | Stars: Leonid Brezhnev, Neville Chamberlain, Alexander Dubcek, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 232
Winner - Best Documentary Short
27. An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Short documentary film about the writer John Steinbeck.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Henry Fonda, Peter Haskell
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
28. Jenny Is a Good Thing (1969)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Short documentary film about children and poverty.
Director: Joan Horvath | Star: Burt Lancaster
Votes: 38
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
29. Leo Beuerman (1969)
13 min | Documentary, Short
The life and legacy of Leo Beuerman. A disabled and disfigured man living in Lawrence in the 1950s and '60s.
Director: Gene Boomer | Star: Leo Beuerman
Votes: 48
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
30. The Magic Machines (1969)
G | 15 min | Documentary, Short
A look at the life and work of Robert Gilbert, a young hippie sculptor who makes brilliantly-colored, motor-driven machines from metal trash and spare parts.
Director: Bob Curtis | Star: Robert Gilbert
Votes: 79
Nominated - Best Documentary Short Winner - Best Live Action Short
31. Blake (1969)
19 min | Short, Comedy
An eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his biplane.
Director: Bill Mason | Star: Blake James
Votes: 53
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
32. People Soup (1969)
G | 12 min | Short, Comedy
Alan Arkin brings his two precocious and talented sons to a largely improvised and hilarious look backward into boyhood and a fantasy involving peanut butter, tomato sauce, sheep dogs, bantam roosters and all the things of childhood.
Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Adam Arkin, Matthew Arkin
Votes: 100
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
33. It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969)
G | 21 min | Comedy, Family, Documentary
Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.
Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Ruth Buzzi, Richard Bakalyan, John Emerson, Jim Swain
Votes: 478
Winner - Best Animated Short
34. Of Men and Demons (1969)
G | 11 min | Animation, Short
When the Gods of Rain, Wind and Fire team up to ruin a simple farmer's tranquil life, the war is on between nature and machines.
Director: John Hubley
Votes: 118
Nominated - Best Animated Short
35. Walking (1968)
M | 5 min | Animation, Short
A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
Director: Ryan Larkin
Votes: 935
Nominated - Best Animated Short
36. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 4,163 | Gross: $2.50M
Nominated - Best Original Score (not a musical) for Ernest Gold Nominated - Best Film Editing for William A. Lyon and Earle Herdan
37. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
PG-13 | 164 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Votes: 14,870 | Gross: $31.68M
Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score
38. Sweet Charity (1969)
G | 149 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr.
Votes: 6,694 | Gross: $3.43M
Nominated - Best Original or Adaptation Score Nominated - Best Costume Design for Edith Head Nominated - Best Art Direction
39. Gaily, Gaily (1969)
R | 107 min | Comedy
To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy
Votes: 427
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Robert Martin and Clem Portman Nominated - Best Costume Design for Ray Aghayan Nominated - Best Art Direction
40. Marooned (1969)
G | 134 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus
Votes: 5,833 | Gross: $8.94M
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi Nominated - Best Cinematography for Daniel L. Fapp Winner - Best Visual Effects for Robbie Robertson
41. Adalen 31 (1969)
X | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance
During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between ... See full summary »
Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund, Stefan Feierbach
Votes: 1,748
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden)
42. The Battle of Neretva (1969)
G | 105 min | Drama, History, War
World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 4,042
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Yugoslavia)
43. The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
232 min | Drama
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
Directors: Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrey Myagkov
Votes: 940
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Soviet Union)
44. My Night at Maud's (1969)
GP | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez
Votes: 14,542
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
45. Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)
G | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle
Votes: 1,873 | Gross: $2.40M
Nominated - Best Visual Effects for Eugène Lourié and Alex Weldon
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