41st Academy Awards

41st
Date	Monday, April 14, 1969
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Hosted by	None
Produced by	Gower Champion
Directed by	Gower Champion
Highlights
Best Picture	Oliver!
Television coverage
Network	ABC

The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast worldwide. There was no host. The ceremony is remembered by many critics and fans alike as the year 2001: A Space Odyssey was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and that Once Upon a Time in the West did not receive any nominations.

Oliver! became the first - and so far only - G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Ironically, the following year would see the only X-rated film to win Best Picture; Midnight Cowboy.

As the special effects director and designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects this year. It was the only Oscar he would ever win.

Winners

Best Picture

Oliver!

• Funny Girl
• The Lion In Winter
• Rachel, Rachel
• Romeo and Juliet

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Cliff Robertson - Charly

• Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Alan Bates - The Fixer
• Ron Moody - Oliver!
• Peter O'Toole - The Lion In Winter

Best Actress in a Leading Role (Tie)

Katharine Hepburn - The Lion In Winter |

Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl

• Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
• Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
• Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses

• Seymour Cassel - Faces
• Daniel Massey - Star!
• Jack Wild - Oliver!
• Gene Wilder - The Producers

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby

• Lynn Carlin - Faces
• Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Kay Medford - Funny Girl
• Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel

Best Director

Carol Reed - Oliver!

• Anthony Harvey - The Lion In Winter
• Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
• Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Goldman - The Lion in Winter

• Vernon Harris - Oliver!
• Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
• Neil Simon, The Odd Couple
• Stewart Stern, Rachel, Rachel

Best Original Screenplay

Mel Brooks, The Producers

• John Cassavetes, Faces
• Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
• Ira Wallach and Peter Ustinov, Hot Millions

Best Cinematography

Pasqualino De Santis, Romeo and Juliet

• Daniel L. Fapp, Ice Station Zebra
• Ernest Laszlo, Star!
• Oswald Morris, Oliver!
• Harry Stradling, Funny Girl

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

' John Box and Terence Marsh, art direction; Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston, set decoration, Oliver!

• Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov, art direction; G. Koshelev and V. Uvarov, set decoration, War and Peace
• George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno, art direction, The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Boris Leven, art direction; Walter M. Scott and Howard Bristol, set decoration, Star!
• Tony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernie Archer, art direction, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Best Costume Design

Danilo Donati, Romeo and Juliet

• Donald Brooks, Star!
• Phyllis Dalton, Oliver!
• Margaret Furse, The Lion in Winter
• Morton Haack, Planet of the Apes

Best Sound

Shepperton Studio Sound Dept., Oliver!

• Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Funny Girl
• Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., Star!
• Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept., Bullitt
• Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept., Finian's Rainbow

Best Film Editing

Frank P. Keller, Bullitt

• Frank Bracht, The Odd Couple
• Fred Feitshans and Eve Newman, Wild in the Streets
• Ralph Kemplen, Oliver!
• Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe and William Sands, Funny Girl

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Hal Millar and J. McMillan Johnson, Ice Station Zebra

Best Music, Original Song

The Windmills of Your Mind, The Thomas Crown Affair, Michel Legrand, music; Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics
• For Love of Ivy, For Love of Ivy, Quincy Jones, music; Bob Russell, lyrics
• Funny Girl, Funny Girl, Jule Styne, music; Bob Merrill, lyrics
• Star!, Star!, Jimmy Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics

Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)

John Green, Oliver!

• Lennie Hayton, Star!
• Ray Heindorf, Finian's Rainbow
• Michel Legrand, music and adaptation; Jacques Demy, lyrics, The Young Girls of Rochefort
• Walter Scharf, Funny Girl

Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)

John Barry, The Lion in Winter

• Jerry Goldsmith, Planet of the Apes
• Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair
• Alex North, The Shoes of the Fisherman
• Lalo Schifrin, The Fox

Best Short Subjects, Cartoons

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Walt Disney Productions

• The House That Jack Built, National Film Board of Canada
• The Magic Pear Tree, Murakami-Wolf Films
• Windy Day, Hubley Studios

Best Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects

Robert Kennedy Remembered, Guggenheim Productions

• The Dove, Coe-Davis Ltd.
• Duo, National Film Board of Canada
• Prelude, Prelude Co.

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Why Man Creates, Saul Bass

• The House That Ananda Built, Films Division, Government of India
• The Revolving Door, Vision Associates Production for the American Foundation Institute of Corrections
• A Space to Grow, Office of Economic Opportunity for Project Upward Bound
• A Way Out of the Wilderness, Dan E. Weisburd

Best Documentary, Features

Jouney Into Self, Bill McGaw, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute At the April 14, 1968, awards ceremony, Young Americans was announced as the Documentary Feature winner. On May 7, 1969, the film was disqualified because it played in October 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 award. Journey Into Self, the first runner-up was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969.

• A Few Notes on Our Food Problem, James Blue, U.S. Information Agency
• The Legendary Champions, William Cayton
• Other Voices, David H. Sawyer
• Young Americans, Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff

Best Foreign Language Film

War and Peace, U.S.S.R.

• The Boys of Paul Street, Hungary
• The Fireman's Ball, Czechoslovakia
• The Girl with the Pistol, Italy
• Stolen Kisses, France

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Martha Raye

Honorary Awards

John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes and Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

Presenters/Attendees

• Jack Albertson (Winner: Best Supporting Actor)
• Ingrid Bergman (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Best Cinematography)
• Diahann Carroll (Co-Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects, Documentary Awards & Honorary Award to Onna White)
• Tony Curtis (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action & Documentary Awards)
• Jane Fonda (Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Costume Design & Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action)
• Ruth Gordon (Winner: Best Supporting Actress)
• Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
• Burt Lancaster (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Special Visual Effects, Scientific & Technical Awards)
• Mark Lester (Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White)
• Henry Mancini (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
• Walter Matthau (Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing & Honorary Award to John Chambers)
• Marni Nixon (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
• Gregory Peck (Accepting the Best Actor award for Cliff Robertson)
• Sidney Poitier (Co-Presenter: Best Picture)
• Carol Reed (Winner: Best Director)
• Rosalind Russell (Co-Presenter: Best Original Score, Best Sound & Writing Awards)
• Frank Sinatra (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Song & Writing Awards)
• Barbra Streisand (Winner: Best Actress)
• Natalie Wood (Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration & Scientific & Technical Awards)

Performers

• José Feliciano ("The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair) *the award winner
• Aretha Franklin ("Funny Girl" from Funny Girl)
• Abbey Lincoln ("For the Love of Ivy" from For the Love of Ivy)
• Sidney Poitier, Ingrid Bergman, Paula Kelly and the UCLA Band ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film))

Further reading

• "Pushing the Oscar envelope, The Academy Awards broadcast has not always been as tame as in recent years. Heres a look back at some weird and wacky moments in Hollywoods biggest night". Newsday. 2005-02-20.