26th Golden Globe Awards

The 26th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1968 films, were held on February 24, 1969.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter

• Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Alan Bates - The Fixer
• Tony Curtis - The Boston Strangler
• Cliff Robertson - Charly

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Ron Moody - Oliver!

• Fred Astaire - Finian's Rainbow
• Jack Lemmon - The Odd Couple
• Walter Matthau - The Odd Couple
• Zero Mostel - The Producers

Best Actress - Drama

Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel

• Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby
• Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter
• Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
• Beryl Reid - The Killing of Sister George

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

• Julie Andrews - Star!
• Lucille Ball - Yours, Mine and Ours
• Petula Clark - Finian's Rainbow
• Gina Lollobrigida - Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Best Director

Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel

• Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
• Carol Reed - Oliver!
• William Wyler - Funny Girl
• Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

Best Film - Drama

The Lion in Winter

• Charly
• The Fixer
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• The Shoes of the Fisherman

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Oliver!

• Finian's Rainbow
• Funny Girl
• The Odd Couple
• Yours, Mine and Ours

Best Foreign Film (English language)

Romeo and Juliet, Italy/UK

• Benjamin, France
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, UK
• Joanna, UK
• Poor Cow, UK

Best Foreign Film (Foreign language)

War and Peace (Voyna i mir), USSR

• The Bride Wore Black (La mariée était en noir), France
• I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Skupljaci perja), Yugoslavia
• Shame (Skammen), Sweden
• Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés), France

Best Screenplay

Charly - Stirling Silliphant

• The Fixer - Dalton Trumbo
• The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
• The Producers - Mel Brooks
• Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski

Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Massey - Star!

• Beau Bridges - For Love of Ivy
• Ossie Davis - The Scalphunters
• Hugh Griffith - The Fixer
• Hugh Griffith - Oliver!
• Martin Sheen - The Subject Was Roses

Best Supporting Actress

Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby

• Barbara Hancock - Finian's Rainbow
• Abbey Lincoln - For Love of Ivy
• Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Jane Merrow - The Lion in Winter

Television

Best Actor - TV Series

Carl Betz - Judd for the Defense

• Raymond Burr - Ironside
• Peter Graves - Mission: Impossible
• Dean Martin - The Dean Martin Show
• Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - The F.B.I.

Best Actress - TV Series

Diahann Carroll - Julia

• Doris Day - The Doris Day Show
• Hope Lange - The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
• Elizabeth Montgomery - Bewitched
• Nancy Sinatra - The Nancy Sinatra Show

Best TV Series

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

• The Carol Burnett Show
• The Doris Day Show
• Julia
• The Name of the Game