41st Academy Awards

41st Academy Awards
Date Monday, April 14, 1969
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host None
Producer Gower Champion
Director Gower Champion
Highlights
Best Picture Oliver!
TV in the United States
Network ABC
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The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast worldwide. There was no host.

Oliver! became the first - and so far, the only - G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. In stark contrast, the following year would see the only X-rated film to win Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy.

As the special effects director and designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects this year. It was the only Oscar he would ever win.[1]

Also, the year was noted for the first - and so far, the only - tie for Best Actress (or any acting category). Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl shared the award. Hepburn also became the second actress to win Best Actress two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) - 1937 (The Good Earth). The previous year, Hepburn won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

At the ceremony, Young Americans was announced as the Documentary Feature winner. On May 7, 1969, the film was disqualified because it played in October 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 award. Journey Into Self, the first runner-up was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969.

Contents

Winners

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2][3]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
Best Original Score (not a musical) Best Original or Adaptation Score
Best Original Song Best Sound Mixing
Best Foreign Language Film Best Costume Design
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Martha Raye

Honorary Awards

John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes and Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

Presenters

Performers

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Internet Movie Database. "Awards for Stanley Kubrick". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/awards. Retrieved 2009-09-06. 
  2. ^ The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
  3. ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/41st-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-13-10.