The Complete Oscar Quest: 42nd Academy Awards (1969)

1969

Best Picture

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Hello, Dolly!
• Midnight Cowboy
• Z

Best Director

• Costa-Gavras, Z
• George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Arthur Penn, Alice’s Restaurant
• Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy

Best Actor

• Richard Burton, Anne of the Thousand Days
• Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
• Peter O’Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy
• John Wayne, True Grit

Best Actress

• Genevieve Bujold, Anne of the Thousand Days
• Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo
• Jean Simmons, The Happy Ending
• Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Supporting Actor

• Rupert Crosse, The Reivers
• Elliott Gould, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider
• Anthony Quayle, Anne of the Thousand Days
• Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Best Supporting Actress

• Catherine Burns, Last Summer
• Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower
• Sylvia Miles, Midnight Cowboy
• Susannah York, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Best Original Screenplay

• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Damned
• Easy Rider
• The Wild Bunch

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Anne of the Thousand DAys
• Goodbye, Columbus
• Midnight Cowboy
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Z

Best Editing

• Hello, Dolly!
• Midnight Cowboy
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Z

Best Cinematography

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Hello, Dolly!
• Marooned

Best Original Score (Not a Musical)

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Reivers
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria
• The Wild Bunch

Best Original or Adaptation Score

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Hello, Dolly!
• Paint Your Wagon
• Sweet Charity
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Best Original Song

• “Come Saturday Morning,” from The Sterile Cuckoo
• “Jean,” from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• “True Grit,” from True Grit
• “What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?” from The Happy Ending

Best Art Direction

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Gaily, Gaily
• Hello, Dolly!
• Sweet Charity
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Best Costume Design

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Gaily, Gaily
• Hello, Dolly!
• Sweet Charity
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Best Visual Effects

• Krakatoa, East of Java
• Marooned

Best Sound Mixing

• Anne of the Thousand Days
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Gaily, Gaily
• Hello, Dolly!
• Marooned

Best Foreign Language Film

• Adalen 31
• The Battle of Neretva
• The Brothers Karamazov
• My Night at Maud’s
• Z

Best Documentary

• Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
• Before the Mountain Was Moved
• In the Year of the Pig
• Olimpiada en Mexico
• The Wolf Men

Best Documentary Short

• An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
• Czechoslovakia 1968
• Jenny Is a Good Thing
• Leo Beuerman
• The Magic Machines

Best Live-Action Short

• Blake
• The Magic Machines
• People Soup

Best Animated Short

• It’s Tough to Be a Bird
• Of Men and Demons
• Walking

Total List of Films Nominated:

1. Alice’s Restaurant
2. Anne of the Thousand Days
3. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Cactus Flower
6. The Damned
7. Easy Rider
8. Gaily Gaily
9. Goodbye, Columbus
10. Goodbye, Mr. Chips
11. The Happy Ending
12. Hello, Dolly!
13. Karkatoa, East of Java
14. Last Summer
15. Marooned
16. Midnight Cowboy
17. Paint Your Wagon
18. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
19. The Reivers
20. The Secret of Santa Vittoria
21. The Sterile Cuckoo
22. Sweet Charity
23. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
24. True Grit
25. The Wild Bunch
26. Z

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