Best Picture

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress (tie)

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Directing

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

Writing

  • Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
    • James Goldman, The Lion in Winter
    • Vernon Harris, Oliver!
    • Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
    • Neil Simon, The Odd Couple
    • Stewart Stern, Rachel, Rachel
  • Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
    • Mel Brooks, The Producers
    • John Cassavetes, Faces
    • Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
    • Ira Wallach and Peter Ustinov, Hot Millions

Cinematography

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

Art Direction

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

Sound

  • Columbia Studio Sound Dept., Funny Girl
  • Shepperton Studio Sound Dept., Oliver!
  • Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept., Star!
  • Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept., Bullitt
  • Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept., Finian's Rainbow

Music

  • Song
    • "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics
    • "For Love of Ivy", For Love of Ivy, Quincy Jones, music; Bob Russell, lyrics
    • "Funny Girl", Funny Girl, Jule Styne, music; Bob Merrill, lyrics
    • "Star!", Star!, Jimmy Van Heusen, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
    • "The Windmills of Your Mind", The Thomas Crown Affair, Michel Legrand, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics
  • Original Score for a Motion Picture, Not a Musical
    • John Barry, The Lion in Winter
    • Jerry Goldsmith, Planet of the Apes
    • Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair
    • Alex North, The Shoes of the Fisherman
    • Lalo Schifrin, The Fox
  • Score of a Musical Picture, Original or Adaptation
    • John Green, Oliver!
    • Lennie Hayton, Star!
    • Ray Heindorf, Finian's Rainbow
    • Michel Legrand, music and adaptation; Jacques Demy, lyrics, The Young Girls of Rochefort
    • Walter Scharf, Funny Girl

Film Editing

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

Costume Design

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

Special Visual Effects

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

Short Subjects

  • Cartoon
    • The House That Jack Built (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia)
    • The Magic Pear Tree (Murakami-Wolf Films; Bing Crosby Productions)
    • Windy Day (Hubley Studios; Paramount)
    • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
  • Live Action
    • The Dove (Coe-Davis Ltd.; Schoenfeld Films Distributing Co.)
    • Duo (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia)
    • Prelude (Prelude Co.; Excelsior Distributing)
    • Robert Kennedy Remembered (Guggenheim Productions; National General Pictures)

Documentary

  • Short Subject
    • The House That Ananda Built (Films Division, Government of India)
    • The Revolving Door (Vision Associates Production for the American Foundation Institute of Corrections)
    • A Space to Grow (Office of Economic Opportunity for Project Upward Bound)
    • A Way Out of the Wilderness (Dan E. Weisburd, producer; John Sutherland Productions)
    • Why Man Creates (Saul Bass, producer; Saul Bass and Associates)
  • Feature
    • A Few Notes on Our Food Problem (James Blue, producer; U.S. Information Agency)
    • Jouney Into Self (Bill McGaw, producer; Western Behavioral Sciences Institute) (At the April 14, 1968, awards ceremony, Young Americans was announced as the Documentary Feature winner. On May 7, 1969, the film was disqualified because it played in October 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 award. Journey Into Self, the first runner-up was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969.)
    • The Legendary Champions (William Cayton, producer; Turn of the Century Fights)
    • Other Voices (David H. Sawyer, producer; DHS Films)
    • Young Americans (Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, producers; The Young Americans Production)

Foreign Language Film

  • The Boys of Paul Street, Hungary
  • The Fireman's Ball, Czechoslovakia
  • The Girl With the Pistol, Italy
  • Stolen Kisses, France
  • War and Peace, U.S.S.R.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  • Martha Raye

Honorary Awards

  • To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes
  • To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

Facts:

  • Winners Announced: April 14, 1969
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California

Host: no one

  • Eligibility Year: 1968
  • If you have a lot of time on your hands, you can watch this year's Best Foreign Film, War and Peace, nearly seven hours long and the longest film ever to win an Oscar.
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