| 41st Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Monday, April 14, 1969 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles | |||
| Host | None | |||
| Producer | Gower Champion | |||
| Director | Gower Champion | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Oliver! | |||
| Most awards | Oliver! (5) | |||
| Most nominations | Oliver! (11) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
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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 and it was also the first venue at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Oliver! became the first—and so far, the only—G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. In stark contrast, 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.[1] Of all the films nominated for the Oscar this year, only 2001 would show up 30 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century.
Also, the year was notable for the first—and so far, the only—tie for Best Actress (or any female acting category). Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl shared the award. Hepburn also became the second actress to win Best Actress two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth). The previous year, Hepburn had won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
At the ceremony, Young Americans was announced as the Documentary Feature winner. On May 7, 1969, the film was disqualified because it had played in October 1967, thus making it ineligible for a 1968 award. Journey Into Self, the first runner-up, was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969.
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Winners [edit]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[2][3]
Multiple nominations and awards [edit]
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These films had multiple nominations:
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The following films received multiple awards.
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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award [edit]
Honorary Awards [edit]
John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes and Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!
Presenters [edit]
- Ingrid Bergman (Presenter: Best Actress and Best Cinematography)
- Diahann Carroll (Presenter: Best Visual Effects, Documentary Awards & Honorary Award to Onna White)
- Tony Curtis (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress, Short Subjects Awards, Documentary Awards)
- Jane Fonda (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Costume Design, Short Subjects Awards)
- Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Martha Raye)
- Burt Lancaster (Presenter: Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Scientific and Technical Awards)
- Mark Lester (Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White)
- Henry Mancini and Marni Nixon (Presenter: Best Original or Adaptation Score)
- Walter Matthau (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Honorary Award to John Chambers)
- Pink Panther (Co-Presenter: Best Cartoon)[4]
- Sidney Poitier (Presenter: Best Picture)
- Rosalind Russell (Presenter: Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Writing Awards)
- Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Song, and Writing Awards)
- Natalie Wood (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, and Scientific-Technical Awards)
Performers [edit]
- José Feliciano ("The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair)
- Aretha Franklin ("Funny Girl" from Funny Girl)
- Abbey Lincoln ("For the Love of Ivy" from For Love of Ivy)
- Sidney Poitier, Ingrid Bergman, Paula Kelly, Burt Lancaster, and the UCLA Band ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
- Frank Sinatra ("Star!" from Star!)
Further reading [edit]
- "Pushing the Oscar envelope, The Academy Awards broadcast has not always been as tame as in recent years. Here's a look back at some weird and wacky moments in Hollywood's biggest night". Newsday. 2005-02-20.
See also [edit]
- Academy Awards
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- Academy Honorary Award
- 41st Academy Awards nominees and winners
- 26th Golden Globe Awards
- 1968 in film
- 11th Grammy Awards
- 20th Primetime Emmy Awards
- 21st Primetime Emmy Awards
- 22nd British Academy Film Awards
- 23rd Tony Awards
- Governors Awards
References [edit]
- ^ Internet Movie Database. "Awards for Stanley Kubrick". Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ^ The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
- ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-13-10.
- ^ Jim Fanning. "All Facts, No Fluff And Stuff". Retrieved 2012-01-21.
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