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* Honorary Award - Special Award * Music (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation) - Adaptation score by John Green * Best Picture - John Woolf, Producer
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.
From its seven nominations, the film won three awards (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay by Waldo Salt), but was unable to win any of its three acting nominations. [Waldo Salt won the film's third Oscar for his witty screenplay that was adapted from James Leo Herlihy's novel.]
Feb 5, 2014 · 42nd Academy Awards (1969): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST PICTURE. Anne of the Thousand Days – Hal B. Wallis. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – John Foreman. Hello, Dolly! – Ernest Lehman. Midnight Cowboy – Jerome Hellman. Z – Jacques Perrin, Hamed Rachedi. DIRECTING. Alice’s Restaurant – Arthur Penn.
Best Picture: Oliver!Oliver! also won Academy Awards for Art Direction-Set Decoration (John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, and Ken Muggleston), Directing (Carol Reed), Music – Score of a Musical Picture, original or adaptation (John Green), and Sound (Shepperton Studio Sound Department), and Onna White received an Honorary Award for her ...
The Lion in Winter. Tied with Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968). Hepburn became the third performer to win consecutive awards, and the first to win three awards for lead roles. Anthony Harvey, the film's director, accepted the award on her behalf.
The 41st Annual Academy Awards were handed out on Monday, April 14, 1969. For the first time, the ceremony was broadcast to a worldwide television audience. The show, which had no host, had a new home back in Los Angeles, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
