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
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.