41st Academy Awards (1969)

Highlights of 41st Academy Awards ceremony

The 41st Academy Awards honored the best films of 1968.
The award ceremony was held on 14th April 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Oliver! won the Best Picture award.
Cliff Robertson won the Best Actor award for his role in Charly.
Katharine Hepburn won the Best Actess award for her role in The Lion In Winter along with Barbra Streisand who won the trophy for her role in Funny Girl.
Carol Reed won the Best Director award for Oliver!.
- WINNER

Best Picture

Oliver! - John Woolf
Funny Girl - Ray Stark
The Lion In Winter - Martin Poll
Rachel, Rachel - Paul Newman
Romeo and Juliet - Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne

Best Director

Oliver! - Carol Reed
The Lion In Winter - Anthony Harvey
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo
Romeo and Juliet - Franco Zeffirelli

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
Oliver! - Vernon Harris
Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

The Lion In Winter - Katharine Hepburn
Funny Girl - Barbra Streisand
The Subject Was Roses - Patricia Neal
Isadora - Vanessa Redgrave
Rachel, Rachel - Joanne Woodward

Best Supporting Actor

The Subject Was Roses - Jack Albertson
Faces - Seymour Cassel
Star! - Daniel Massey
Oliver! - Jack Wild
The Producers - Gene Wilder

Best Supporting Actress

Rosemary's Baby - Ruth Gordon
Faces - Lynn Carlin
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Sondra Locke
Funny Girl - Kay Medford
Rachel, Rachel - Estelle Parsons

Best Art Direction

Oliver! - John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston
War and Peace - Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov, G. Koshelev, V. Uvarov
The Shoes of the Fisherman - George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno
Star! - Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer

Best Cinematography

Romeo and Juliet - Pasqualino De Santis
Ice Station Zebra - Daniel L. Fapp
Star! - Ernest Laszlo
Oliver! - Oswald Morris
Funny Girl - Harry Stradling

Best Original Song

The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman for "The Windmills of Your Mind"
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
For Love of Ivy - Quincy Jones, Bob Russell for "For Love of Ivy"
Funny Girl - Jule Styne, Bob Merrill for "Funny Girl"
Star! - Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn for "Star!"

Best Original Score

The Lion in Winter - John Barry
Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand
The Shoes of the Fisherman - Alex North
The Fox - Lalo Schifrin

Best Sound Mixing

Oliver!
Funny Girl
Star!
Bullitt
Finian's Rainbow

Best Visual Effects

2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
Ice Station Zebra - Hal Millar, J. McMillan Johnson

Best Costume Design

Romeo and Juliet - Danilo Donati
Star! - Donald Brooks
Oliver! - Phyllis Dalton
The Lion in Winter - Margaret Furse
Planet of the Apes - Morton Haack

Best Animated Short Film

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
The House That Jack Built
The Magic Pear Tree
Windy Day

Best Documentary Feature

Jouney Into Self - Bill McGaw
A Few Notes on Our Food Problem - James Blue
The Legendary Champions - William Cayton
Other Voices - David H. Sawyer
Young Americans - Robert Cohn, Alex Grasshoff

Best Documentary Short Subject

Why Man Creates - Saul Bass
The House That Ananda Built
The Revolving Door
A Space to Grow
A Way Out of the Wilderness - Dan E. Weisburd

Best Foreign Language Film

War and Peace
The Boys of Paul Street
The Fireman's Ball
The Girl with the Pistol
Stolen Kisses

Academy Honorary Award

Planet of the Apes - John Chambers for "Outstanding makeup achievement"
Oliver! - Onna White for "Outstanding choreography achievement"

Best Live Action Short Film

Robert Kennedy Remembered
The Dove
Duo
Prelude

Best Film Editing

Bullitt - Frank P. Keller
The Odd Couple - Frank Bracht
Wild in the Streets - Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
Oliver! - Ralph Kemplen
Funny Girl - Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

Oliver! - John Green
Star! - Lennie Hayton
Finian's Rainbow - Ray Heindorf
The Young Girls of Rochefort - Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy
Funny Girl - Walter Scharf
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