42nd Academy Awards
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42nd Academy Awards | ||||
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Date | Tuesday, April 7, 1970 | |||
Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles | |||
Host | None | |||
Producer | M.J. Frankovich | |||
Director | Jack Haley, Jr. | |||
Highlights | ||||
Best Picture | Midnight Cowboy | |||
Most awards | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4) | |||
Most nominations | Anne of the Thousand Days (10) | |||
TV in the United States | ||||
Network | ABC | |||
Duration | 2 hours, 25 minutes | |||
Ratings | 43.4% (Nielsen ratings) | |||
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The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.
This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings.
Midnight Cowboy became the first - and so far, the only - X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture: Oliver!.
This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards where none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[1][2]
Multiple nominations and awards
These films had multiple nominations:
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The following films received multiple awards.
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Presenters
- Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress, Documentary Awards)
- Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Costume Design, and Original Song)
- Claudia Cardinale (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film)
- Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
- Elliott Gould (Presenter: Best Sound)
- Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Documentary Awards)
- James Earl Jones (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay)
- Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Films, Art Direction, and Best Director)
- Ali MacGraw (Presenter: Best Original Screenplay)
- Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Score, Non-Musical)
- Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Original Score & Short Subject Awards)
- Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay)
- Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to Cary Grant)
- Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Actor)
- Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture)
- Jon Voight (Presenter: Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay)
- John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
- Raquel Welch (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
Performers
- Glen Campbell ("True Grit" from True Grit)
- Michel Legrand ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending)
- Lou Rawls ("Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- B.J. Thomas ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
See also
- List of most watched television broadcasts
- 27th Golden Globe Awards
- 1969 in film
- 12th Grammy Awards
- 21st Primetime Emmy Awards
- 22nd Primetime Emmy Awards
- 23rd British Academy Film Awards
- 24th Tony Awards
References
- ↑ The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
- ↑ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
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