42nd Academy Awards (1970)
Highlights of 42nd Academy Awards ceremony
The 42nd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1969.
The award ceremony was held on 7th April 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Midnight Cowboy won the Best Picture award.
John Wayne won the Best Actor award for his role in True Grit.
Maggie Smith won the Best Actess award for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
John Schlesinger won the Best Director award for Midnight Cowboy.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Midnight Cowboy
- Jerome Hellman
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Hal B Wallis
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- John Foreman
Hello, Dolly!
- Ernest Lehman
Z
- Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi
Best Director
Midnight Cowboy
- John Schlesinger
Alice's Restaurant
- Arthur Penn
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- George Roy Hill
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Sydney Pollack
Z
- Costa-Gavras
Best Original Screenplay
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- William Goldman
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
- Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
The Damned
- Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
Easy Rider
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
The Wild Bunch
- Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner, Sam Peckinpah
Best Adapted Screenplay
Midnight Cowboy
- Waldo Salt
Anne of the Thousand Days
- John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove
Goodbye, Columbus
- Arnold Schulman
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- James Poe, Robert E Thompson
Z
- George Semprun and Costa-Gavras
Best Actor in a Leading Role
True Grit
- John Wayne
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Richard Burton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Peter O'Toole
Midnight Cowboy
- Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy
- Jon Voight
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Maggie Smith
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Genevieve Bujold
The Happy Ending
- Jean Simmons
The Sterile Cuckoo
- Liza Minnelli
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Jane Fonda
Best Supporting Actor
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Gig Young
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Anthony Quayle
Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice
- Elliot Gould
Easy Rider
- Jack Nicholson
The Reivers
- Rupert Crosse
Best Supporting Actress
Cactus Flower
- Goldie Hawn
Bob And Carol And Ted And Alice
- Dyan Cannon
Last Summer
- Catherine Burns
Midnight Cowboy
- Sylvia Miles
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Susannah York
Best Art Direction
Hello, Dolly!
- John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A Blumenthal, Walter M Scott, George James Hopkins, Raphael Bretton
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch, Patrick McLoughlin
Gaily, Gaily
- Robert F Boyle, George B Chan, Edward G Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe
Sweet Charity
- Alexander Golitzen, George C Webb, Jack D Moore
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Harry Horner, Frank R McKelvy
Best Cinematography
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Conrad L. Hall
Best Original Song
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Burt Bacharach, Hal David
for "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head"
Best Original Score
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Burt Bacharach
Best Sound Mixing
Hello, Dolly!
- Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack
Anne of the Thousand Days
- John Aldred
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Bill Edmondson, David Dockendorf
Gaily, Gaily
- Robert Martin, Clem Portman
Marooned
- Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi
Best Visual Effects
Marooned
- Robie Robinson
Best Costume Design
Anne of the Thousand Days
- Margaret Furse
Best Animated Short Film
It's Tough to Be a Bird
Best Documentary Feature
Love of Life
Best Documentary Short Subject
Czechoslovakia 1968
Best Foreign Language Film
Z
Best Live Action Short Film
The Magic Machines
Best Film Editing
Z
- Francoise Bonnot
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Hello, Dolly!
- Lennie Hayton, Lionel Newman
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Leslie Bricusse, John Williams
Paint Your Wagon
- Nelson Riddle
Sweet Charity
- Cy Coleman
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Johnny Green, Albert Woodbury