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1969 Academy Awards

The 1969 Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

Anne of the Thousand Days, Hal B. Wallis, producer (Universal)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, John Foreman, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Hello, Dolly!, Ernest Lehman, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman, producer (United Artists)

Z, Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, producers (Cinema V)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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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)