1968 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1968 Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

Funny Girl, Ray Stark, producer (Columbia)

The Lion in Winter, Martin Poll, producer (Avco Embassy)

Oliver!, John Woolf, producer (Columbia)

Rachel, Rachel, Paul Newman, producer (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts)

Romeo and Juliet, Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne, producers (Paramount)

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)