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