40th Academy Awards (1968)
Highlights of 40th Academy Awards ceremony
The 40th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1967.
The award ceremony was held on 10th April 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
In the Heat of the Night won the Best Picture award.
Rod Steiger won the Best Actor award for his role in In the Heat of the Night.
Katharine Hepburn won the Best Actess award for her role in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Mike Nichols won the Best Director award for The Graduate.
- WINNER
Best Picture
In the Heat of the Night
The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Doctor Dolittle
Best Director
The Graduate
- Mike Nichols
In the Heat of the Night
- Norman Jewison
Bonnie and Clyde
- Arthur Penn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Stanley Kramer
In Cold Blood
- Richard Brooks
Best Original Screenplay
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- William Rose
Bonnie and Clyde
- David Newman, Robert Benton
Divorce American Style
- Robert Kaufman, Norman Lear
La guerre est finie
- Jorge Semprun
Two for the Road
- Frederic Raphael
Best Adapted Screenplay
In the Heat of the Night
- Stirling Silliphant
In Cold Blood
- Richard Brooks
Cool Hand Luke
- Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson
The Graduate
- Buck Henry, Calder Willingham
Ulysses
- Joseph Strick, Fred Haines
Best Actor in a Leading Role
In the Heat of the Night
- Rod Steiger
Cool Hand Luke
- Paul Newman
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Spencer Tracy
The Graduate
- Dustin Hoffman
Bonnie and Clyde
- Warren Beatty
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Katharine Hepburn
Bonnie and Clyde
- Faye Dunaway
The Graduate
- Anne Bancroft
The Whisperers
- Edith Evans
Wait Until Dark
- Audrey Hepburn
Best Supporting Actor
Cool Hand Luke
- George Kennedy
Bonnie and Clyde
- Gene Hackman
Bonnie and Clyde
- Michael J. Pollard
The Dirty Dozen
- John Cassavetes
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Cecil Kellaway
Best Supporting Actress
Bonnie and Clyde
- Estelle Parsons
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Carol Channing
The Graduate
- Katharine Ross
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Beah Richards
Barefoot in the Park
- Mildred Natwick
Best Art Direction
Camelot
The Taming of the Shrew
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Doctor Dolittle
Best Cinematography
Bonnie and Clyde
Camelot
The Graduate
Doctor Dolittle
In Cold Blood
Best Original Song
Doctor Dolittle
- Leslie Bricusse
for "Talk to the Animals"
Banning
- Quincy Jones, Bob Russell
for "The Eyes of Love"
Casino Royale
- Burt Bacharach, Hal David
for "The Look of Love"
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
for "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
The Jungle Book
- Terry Gilkyson
for "The Bare Necessities"
Best Original Score
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Elmer Bernstein
Doctor Dolittle
- Leslie Bricusse
Cool Hand Luke
- Lalo Schifrin
In Cold Blood
- Quincy Jones
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Richard Rodney Bennett
Best Sound Mixing
In the Heat of the Night
Doctor Dolittle
Camelot
The Dirty Dozen
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Visual Effects
Doctor Dolittle
Tobruk
Best Costume Design
Camelot
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Happiest Millionaire
The Taming of the Shrew
Bonnie and Clyde
Best Animated Short Film
The Box
Best Documentary Feature
The Anderson Platoon
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Redwoods
Best Foreign Language Film
Ostre sledovane vlaky
Chieko-sho
El amor brujo
Skupljaci perja
Vivre pour vivre
Best Live Action Short Film
A Place to Stand
Best Film Editing
In the Heat of the Night
Doctor Dolittle
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Beach Red
The Dirty Dozen
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Camelot
- Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Doctor Dolittle
- Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Frank De Vol
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Andre Previn, Joseph Gershenson
Valley of the Dolls
- John Williams
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Alfred Hitchcock