40th Academy Awards

The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for 8 April 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, 10 April 1968, because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony.

Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films, the awards for cinematography, art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome. The Best Picture nominees were an eclectic group of films reflecting the chaos of their era. The event was the first one since the 1948 awards show to feature film clips from the Best Picture nominated films.

This year's nominations also marked the first time that three different films were nominated for the "Top Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. The three films were Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. However, the winner of Best Picture was producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison's thriller/mystery film, In the Heat of the Night (with seven nominations and five wins – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound).

The Graduate is, as of the 87th Academy Awards, the last film to win Best Director and nothing else.

Due to an all-out push by Academy President Gregory Peck, 18 of the 20 acting nominees were present at the ceremony. Only Katharine Hepburn and the late Spencer Tracy, who was nominated posthumously, were missing.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]

Best Picture	Best Director
*In the Heat of the Night* Bonnie and Clyde Doctor Dolittle The Graduate Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Mike Nichols – The Graduate Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood Norman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night Stanley Kramer – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night* as Police Chief Bill Gillespie** Warren Beatty – Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock Paul Newman – Cool Hand Luke as Lucas "Cool Hand Luke" Jackson Spencer Tracy – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton	*Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* as Christina Drayton** Anne Bancroft – The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson Faye Dunaway – Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker Edith Evans – The Whisperers as Mrs. Ross Audrey Hepburn – Wait Until Dark as Susy Hendrix
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*George Kennedy – Cool Hand Luke* as Dragline** John Cassavetes – The Dirty Dozen as V.R. Franko Gene Hackman – Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow Cecil Kellaway – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Ryan Michael J. Pollard – Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss	*Estelle Parsons – Bonnie and Clyde* as Blanche Barrow** Carol Channing – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Muzzy Mildred Natwick – Barefoot in the Park as Ethel Banks Beah Richards – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Mrs. Mary Prentice Katharine Ross – The Graduate as Elaine Robinson
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
William Rose – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner David Newman and Robert Benton – Bonnie and Clyde Robert Kaufman and Norman Lear – Divorce American Style Jorge Semprun – The War Is Over Frederic Raphael – Two for the Road	Stirling Silliphant – In the Heat of the Night Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson – Cool Hand Luke Buck Henry and Calder Willingham – The Graduate Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood Joseph Strick and Fred Haines – Ulysses
Best Foreign Language Film
Closely Watched Trains — Czechoslovakia El amor brujo — Spain I Even Met Happy Gypsies — Yugoslavia Live for Life — France Portrait of Chieko — Japan
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
*The Anderson Platoon* Festival Harvest A King's Story A Time for Burning	The Redwoods Monument to the Dream A Place to Stand See You at the Pillar While I Run This Race
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
A Place to Stand – Christopher Chapman – An Expo 67 movie at the Ontario Pavilion. Paddle to the Sea – National Film Board of Canada - Julian Biggs Sky over Holland – John Ferno Stop, Look and Listen – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Len Janson and Chuck Menville	*The Box* Hypothese Beta What on Earth!
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Elmer Bernstein – Thoroughly Modern Millie Lalo Schifrin – Cool Hand Luke Leslie Bricusse – Doctor Dolittle Richard Rodney Bennett – Far from the Madding Crowd Quincy Jones – In Cold Blood	Alfred Newman and Ken Darby – Camelot Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage – Doctor Dolittle Frank De Vol – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner André Previn and Joseph Gershenson – Thoroughly Modern Millie John Williams – Valley of the Dolls
Best Original Song	Best Costume Design
*"Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle* — Leslie Bricusse (music and lyrics)** "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book — Terry Gilkyson (music and lyrics) "The Eyes of Love" from Banning — Quincy Jones (music) and Bob Russell (lyrics) "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale — Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics) "Thoroughly Modern Millie" from Thoroughly Modern Millie — Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics)	Camelot – John Truscott Bonnie and Clyde – Theadora Van Runkle The Happiest Millionaire – Bill Thomas The Taming of the Shrew – Danilo Donati and Irene Sharaff Thoroughly Modern Millie – Jean Louis
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
John Truscott, Edward Carrere, John W. Brown – Camelot Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss – Doctor Dolittle Robert Clatworthy, Frank Tuttle – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani, Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi – The Taming of the Shrew Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Howard Bristol – Thoroughly Modern Millie	Burnett Guffey – Bonnie and Clyde Richard H. Kline – Camelot Robert Surtees – Doctor Dolittle Robert Surtees – The Graduate Conrad Hall – In Cold Blood
Best Sound Mixing	Best Sound Effects
In the Heat of the Night – Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department Camelot – Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department The Dirty Dozen – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department Doctor Dolittle – 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department Thoroughly Modern Millie – Universal City Studio Sound Department	The Dirty Dozen – John Poyner In the Heat of the Night – James Richard
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
In the Heat of the Night – Hal Ashby Beach Red – Frank P. Keller The Dirty Dozen – Michael Luciano Doctor Dolittle – Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – Robert C. Jones	Doctor Dolittle – L.B. Abbott Tobruk – Howard A. Johnson, Jr. and Albert Whitlock

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Gregory Peck

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Alfred Hitchcock

Honorary Oscar

Arthur Freed was presented for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts.

Trivia

Of the 20 performers nominated in the acting categories only two didn't attend: Katharine Hepburn, whose award for Best Actress was accepted by George Cukor, was in France filming The Lion in Winter, and Spencer Tracy, whose nomination was posthumous.
There was no Governor's Ball.
Prior to the two-day postponement, four African-American stars who were scheduled to take part in the ceremony: Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong and Diahann Carroll, announced they were withdrawing in mourning for Dr. King. Prior to the postponement, Jack Lemmon was announced as a replacement for Poitier, and Shirley Jones for Davis, but once the event was delayed, the original quartet returned.
Alfred Hitchcock's acceptance speech is on record for the shortest in Academy Awards history: "Thank you".
This was the only year in which two films (Bonnie and Clyde and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) received nominations in all four acting categories.

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

10 nominations: Bonnie and Clyde and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
9 nominations: Doctor Dolittle
7 nominations: The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night and Thoroughly Modern Millie
5 nominations: Camelot
4 nominations: Cool Hand Luke, The Dirty Dozen and In Cold Blood
2 nominations: A Place to Stand and The Taming of the Shrew

The following films received multiple awards.

5 wins: In the Heat of the Night
3 wins: Camelot
2 wins: Bonnie and Clyde, Doctor Dolittle and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Presenters

Julie Andrews (Presenter: Best Picture)
Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger (Presenters: Writing Awards)
Macdonald Carey and Diahann Carroll (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
Leslie Caron (Presenter: Best Director)
Carol Channing (Presenter: Best Sound)
Angie Dickinson and Gene Kelly (Presenters: Music Awards)
Edith Evans (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
Audrey Hepburn (Presenter: Best Actor)
Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
Rock Hudson and Shirley Jones (Presenters: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
Danny Kaye (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
Walter Matthau (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
Robert Morse and Barbara Rush (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
Sidney Poitier (Presenter: Best Actress)
Rosalind Russell (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Gregory Peck)
Eva Marie Saint (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Original Song)
Robert Wise (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Natalie Wood (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
Richard Crenna and Elke Sommer (Presenters: Best Sound Effects)
Patty Duke (Presenter:best supporting actor)

Performers

Louis Armstrong ("The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book)
Sammy Davis Jr. ("Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle)
Lainie Kazan ("The Eyes of Love" from Banning)
Angela Lansbury ("Thoroughly Modern Millie" from Thoroughly Modern Millie)^[2]
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 ("The Look of Love" from Casino Royale)

References

↑ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
↑ Angela Lansbury performing "Thoroughly Modern Millie" on show on YouTube

External links

40th Academy Awards at the Internet Movie Database

Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Records Most wins per ceremony Oscar season History of film

Merit awards	Best Picture Directing Actor Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Adapted Screenplay Original Screenplay Animated Feature Documentary Feature Foreign Language Film Animated Short Film Documentary Short Subject Live Action Short Film Cinematography Costume Design Film Editing Makeup and Hairstyling Original Score Original Song Best Original Musical Production Design Sound Editing Sound Mixing Visual Effects

Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Special Achievement Academy Award Student Academy Award

Retired awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Director of a Comedy Picture Engineering Effects Short Subject, Two-reel Short Subject, Comedy Short Subject, Novelty Original Story Title Writing Unique and Artistic Quality of Production Academy Juvenile Award

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