42nd Academy Awards
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The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, though outside North America, Mexico and Brazil were the only countries to broadcast the event live.[1]
One year after
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was later tied with The Poseidon Adventure and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four winning performances came from Best Picture nominated films, as well as the first ceremony in which every acting nomination was in color.
The ceremony
This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the
In terms of performances, in-between presenting the documentary awards, Bob Hope and Fred Astaire discussed how Astaire had never danced on the Academy Awards broadcast before, with Astaire claiming to have "given it [dancing] up" the previous year. Cuing the orchestra, Hope then left the stage as Astaire began an ‘‘impromptu’’ dance performance (actually scripted and rehearsed), first in a modern jazz style before ending with traditional tap dancing (this would not be Astaire's final dance performance as he would later dance in the film That's Entertainment, Part II six years later). They Shoot Horses, Don't They? broke the record for having the most nominations for a film without a Best Picture nomination, receiving 9 nominations. This feat was also achieved by The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.
Cary Grant's award was described as the most popular of the evening; the audience was described as having "went wild" over his receiving the Academy Honorary Award.[2]
Winners and nominees
Nominees were announced on February 16, 1970. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[3][4]
Academy Honorary Award
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Multiple nominations and awards
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The following films received multiple awards.
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Presenters and performers
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- Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress and Documentary Awards)
- Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Best Costume Design and Best Song Original for the Picture)
- Elmer Bernstein (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation)
- 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 Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
- Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Subjects, Best Art Direction and Best Director)
- Ali MacGraw (Presenter: Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
- Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Non-Musical))
- Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) & Short Subjects Awards)
- Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
- 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 Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
- Shani Wallis (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation)
- John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
- Raquel Welch (Presenter: Best Special 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)
- The Sandpipers ("Come Saturday Morning" from The Sterile Cuckoo)
- B. J. Thomas ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
- Fred Astaire (untitled dance in-between presentation of the two documentary awards)[8]
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 Opening of the Academy Awards in 1970 on YouTube At 5:30 mark. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
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Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 845. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.
- ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select "1969" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
- ^ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
- ^ "Honorary Award | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. July 17, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
- ^ "1970 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
- ISBN 9780345314239.
- ^ ”Fred Astaire Cuts Loose: 1970 Oscars”, YouTube.
