41st Academy Awards

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41st Academy Awards
DateApril 14, 1969
SiteDorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Produced byGower Champion
Directed byGower Champion
Highlights
Best PictureOliver!
Most awardsOliver! (5)
Most nominationsOliver! (11)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC

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 11th Academy Awards.

Oliver! became the only Best Picture winner to have received a G-rating prior to winning, the ratings system having replaced the old Hays Code on November 1, 1968 (though a number of Best Picture winners have received the rating retroactively). It was the last British film to win Best Picture until Chariots of Fire in 1981, and the last musical to win until Chicago in 2002.

The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—tie for Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand shared the award, for their performances in The Lion in Winter and Funny Girl, respectively. Hepburn became the second actress and third performer to win an acting Oscar two years in a row (having won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner the previous year), after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth), and Spencer Tracy in 1937 (Captains Courageous) and 1938 (Boys Town). She also became the first to win three acting Oscars in lead categories (an achievement later matched by Daniel Day-Lewis and Frances McDormand).

2001: A Space Odyssey.[1]

Cliff Robertson's performance in Charly, which had received a mixed-to-negative reception from critics and audiences, engendered controversy when he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Less than two weeks after the ceremony, TIME mentioned the Academy's generalized concerns over "excessive and vulgar solicitation of votes" and said "many members agreed that Robertson's award was based more on promotion than on performance."[2]

A few people griped over the failure of Paul Newman to get an Academy Award nomination for his direction of the film Rachel, Rachel, despite him receiving a Best Director award from the New York Film Critics Circle.[3]

Also notable this year was the only instance to date of the Academy revoking an Oscar after the ceremony:

Journey into Self
, the first runner-up, was awarded the Oscar the following day.

A minor controversy was created when, in a sketch on The Tonight Show, which was recorded three hours before the awards ceremony, Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett announced Oliver! as the winner for Best Picture and Jack Albertson as Best Supporting Actor. Columnist Frances Drake claimed that most observers believed Carson and Hackett "were playing a huge practical joke or happened to make a lucky guess".[4] Referring to it as "The Great Carson Hoax", PricewaterhouseCoopers stated in a 2004 press release that it was "later proven that Carson and Hackett made a few lucky guesses for their routine, dispelling rumors of a security breach and keeping the integrity of the balloting process intact".[5] Carson would go on to host the ceremony five times.

Winners and nominees

Cliff Robertson, Best Actor winner
Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress co-winner
Barbra Streisand, Best Actress co-winner
Jack Albertson, Best Supporting Actor winner
Ruth Gordon, Best Supporting Actress winner
Mel Brooks, Best Original Screenplay winner
Walt Disney, Best Animated Short Film winner
John Barry, Best Original Score (Not a Musical) winner
Michel Legrand, Best Original Song co-winner
Stanley Kubrick, Best Visual Effects winner

Nominees were announced on February 24, 1969. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[6][7]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Subject Best Short Subject – Cartoons
Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) Best Score of a Musical Picture – Original or Adaptation
Best Song Original for the Picture
Best Sound
Best Foreign Language Film Best Costume Design
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing Best Special Visual Effects

Multiple nominations and awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Martha Raye

Honorary Awards

Presenters

  • Ingrid Bergman (Presenter: Best Actress and Best Cinematography)
  • Ingrid Bergman, Diahann Carroll, Jane Fonda, Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood (Presenters: Best Director)
  • Diahann Carroll (Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects, Documentary Awards & the Honorary Award to Onna White)
  • Tony Curtis (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress, Short Subjects Awards and Documentary Awards)
  • Jane Fonda (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Costume Design and Short Subjects Awards)
  • Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Martha Raye)
  • Burt Lancaster (Presenter: Best Actor, Best Special Visual Effects and the Scientific or Technical Awards)
  • Mark Lester (Presenter: Honorary Academy Award to Onna White)
  • Henry Mancini and Marni Nixon (Presenter: Best Original or Adaptation Score)
  • Walter Matthau (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film)
  • Gregory Peck (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical))
  • Pink Panther (Presentation: Best Short Subject – Cartoons)[8]
  • Sidney Poitier (Presenter: Best Picture)
  • Don Rickles (Presenter: Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
  • Rosalind Russell (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical), Best Sound and Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Awards)
  • Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor, Best Song Original for the Picture and Writing Awards)
  • Natalie Wood (Presenter: Best Art Direction and the Scientific or Technical Awards)

Performers

See also

References

  1. ^ Internet Movie Database. "Awards for Stanley Kubrick". IMDb. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  2. ^ "The Trade: Grand Illusion". TIME. April 25, 1969. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 845. .
  4. ^ "Hackett, Carson On Inside Track?". Galveston Daily News. April 21, 1969. p. 7. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  5. ^ "PricewaterhouseCoopers Celebrates 70th Anniversary Managing Academy Awards(R) Balloting". February 12, 2004. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  6. ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select "1968" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
  7. ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  8. ^ Jim Fanning. "All Facts, No Fluff And Stuff". Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2012.