Best Picture

  • Anne of the Thousand Days, Hal B. Wallis, producer
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, John Foreman, producer
  • Hello, Dolly!, Ernest Lehman, producer
  • Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman, producer
  • Z, Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, producers

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

  • 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?

Actress in a Supporting Role

  • 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?

Directing

  • 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

Writing

  • Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
    • John Hale and Bridget Boland, screenplay; Richard Sokolove, adaptation, Anne of the Thousand Days
    • James Poe and Robert E. Thompson, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    • Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy
    • Arnold Schulman, Goodbye, Columbus
    • Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras, Z
  • Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced
    • Nicola Badalucco, story; Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti, screenplay, The Damned
    • Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern, Easy Rider
    • William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    • Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner, story; Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah, screenplay, The Wild Bunch
    • Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Cinematography

  • Daniel Fapp, Marooned
  • Conrad Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Arthur Ibbetson, Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Charles B. Lang, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Harry Stradling, Hello, Dolly!

Art Direction

  • Robert Boyle and George B. Chan, art direction; Edward Boyle and Carl Biddiscombe, set decoration, Gaily, Gaily
  • Maurice Carter and Lionel Couch, art direction; Patrick McLoughlin, set decoration, Anne of the Thousand Days
  • John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith and Herman Blumenthal, art direction; Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins and Raphael Bretton, set decoration, Hello, Dolly!
  • Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb, art direction; Jack D. Moore, set decoration, Sweet Charity
  • Harry Horner, art direction; Frank McKelvy, set decoration, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Sound

  • John Aldred, Anne of the Thousand Days
  • William Edmundson and David Dockendorf, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi, Marooned
  • Robert Martin and Clem Portman, Gaily, Gaily
  • Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack, Hello, Dolly!

Music

  • Song
    • "Come Saturday Morning", The Sterile Cuckoo, Fred Karlin, music; Dory Previn, lyrics
    • "Jean", The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Rod McKuen, music and lyrics
    • "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Burt Bacharach, music; Hal David, lyrics
    • "True Grit", True Grit, Elmer Bernstein, music; Don Black, lyrics
    • "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", The Happy Ending, Michel Legrand, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics
  • Original Score for a Motion Picture, Not a Musical
    • Burt Bacharach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    • Georges Delerue, Anne of the Thousand Days
    • Jerry Fielding, The Wild Bunch
    • Ernest Gold, The Secret of Santa Vittoria
    • John Williams, The Reivers
  • Score of a Musical Picture, Original or Adaptation
    • Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics; John Williams, score, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    • Cy Coleman, Sweet Charity
    • John Green and Albert Woodbury, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    • Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman, Hello, Dolly!
    • Nelson Riddle, Paint Your Wagon

Film Editing

  • Françoise Bonnot, Z
  • William Lyon and Earle Herdan, The Secret of Santa Vittoria
  • William Reynolds, Hello, Dolly!
  • Hugh A. Robertson, Midnight Cowboy
  • Fredric Steinkamp, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Costume Design

  • Ray Aghayan, Gaily, Gaily
  • Donfeld, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Margaret Furse, Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Edith Head, Sweet Charity
  • Irene Sharaff, Hello, Dolly!

Special Visual Effects

  • Eugene Lourie and Alex Weldon, Krakatoa, East of Java
  • Robbie Robertson, Marooned

Short Subjects

  • Cartoon
    • It's Tough to Be a Bird (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista)
    • Of Men and Demons (Hubley Studios; Paramount)
    • Walking (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia)
  • Live Action
    • Blake (National Film Board of Canada; Vaudeo, Inc.)
    • The Magic Machines (Fly-By-Night Productions; Manson Distributing)
  • People Soup (Pangloss Productions; Columbia)

Documentary

  • Short Subject
    • Czechoslovakia 1968 (Sanders-Fresco Film Makers for the U.S. Information Agency)
    • An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (Donald Wrye Productions for the U.S. Information Agency)
    • Jenny Is a Good Thing (A.C.I. Prod. for Project Head Start)
    • Leo Beuerman (Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser, producers; Centron Production)
    • The Magic Machines (Fly-By-Night Productions; Manson Distributing)
  • Feature
    • Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life (Bernard Chevry, producer; Midem Production)
    • Before the Mountain Was Moved (Robert K. Sharpe Productions for the Office of Economic Opportunity)
    • In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, producer; Emile de Antonio Production)
    • The Olympics in Mexico (Film Section of the Organizing Committee for the XIX Olympic Games)
    • The Wolf Men (Irwin Rosten, producer; MGM)

Foreign Language Film (tie)

  • Adalen '31, Sweden
  • The Battle of Neretva, Yugoslavia
  • The Brothers Karamazov, U.S.S.R.
  • My Night With Maud, France
  • Z, Algeria

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

  • George Jessel

Honorary Award

  • To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues

Facts:

  • Winners Announced: April 7, 1970
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
  • Host: no one
  • Eligibility Year: 1969
  • Midnight Cowboy, the Best Picture winner, was rated X. We don't expect that to happen again any time soon.
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