Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1969

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Midnight Cowboy – WINNER!

- The Wild Bunch
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
- Kes
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Z – WINNER!

- L’armée des ombres / Army of Shadows
- Ma nuit chez Maud / My Night at Maud’s
- Spalovac mrtvol / The Cremator
- La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmmerung) / The Damned

BEST ACTOR

Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy) – WINNER! (tied)
Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy) – WINNER! (tied)

- Alan Bates (Women in Love)
- Rudolf Hrusínský (The Cremator)
- Peter O’Toole (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)

BEST ACTRESS

Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) – WINNER!

- Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days)
- Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
- Liza Minnelli (The Sterile Cuckoo)
- Liv Ullmann (The Passion of Anna)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Ryan (The Wild Bunch) – WINNER!

- Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider)
- Gig Young (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Helmut Berger (The Damned)
- Colin Welland (Kes)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Pamela Franklin (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) – WINNER!

- Catherine Burns (Last Summer)
- Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?)
- Ingrid Thulin (The Damned)
- Simone Signoret (Army of Shadows)

BEST DIRECTOR

Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch) – WINNER!

- Costa-Gavras (Z)
- John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
- Jean-Pierre Melville (Army of Shadows)
- Juraj Herz (The Cremator)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt; from the novel by James Leo Herlihy) – WINNER!

- Z (Jorge Semprún; from the novel by Vasilis Vasilikos)
- The Cremator (Ladislav Fuks and Juraj Herz; from the novel by Fuks)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville; from the novel by Joseph Kessel)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jay Presson Allen; from the novel by Muriel Spark)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman) – WINNER!

- The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière)
- The Damned (Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco)
- Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer)
- The Wild Bunch (Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah and Roy N. Sickner)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Wild Bunch (Lucien Ballard) – WINNER!

- Fellini Satyricon (Giuseppe Rotunno)
- The Cremator (Stanislav Mitola)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Conrad Hall)
- Easy Rider (Laszlo Kovacs)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Wild Bunch (Jerry Fielding) – WINNER!

- Z (Mikis Theodorakis)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Burt Bacharach)
- Battle of Britain (Ron Goodwin)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (Georges Delerue)
- The Cremator (Zdenek Liska)
- The Valley of Gwangi (Jerome Moross)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Hello, Dolly! (Jerry Herman – adapted songs; Lennie Hayton & Lionel Newman – conductors) – WINNER!

- Paint Your Wagon (Frederick Loewe, André Previn & Alan Jay Lerner – original songs; Nelson Riddle – conductor)
- Medea (Elsa Morante – musical collaborator; selected from recordings of traditional North African music)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (John Green & Albert Woodbury – conductors; songs and compositions by John Green, Richard Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren et. al.)
- Easy Rider (Music director uncredited; songs by Mars Bonfire, Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Robbie Robertson, Jimi Hendrix, Antonia Duren et. al.)
- Sweet Charity (Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields – adapted songs; Joseph Gershenson – music supervisor)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“We Have All the Time in the World”, John Barry & Hal David (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) – WINNER!

- “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, Burt Bacharach & Hal David (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
- “Jean”, Rod McKuen (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- “True Grit”, Elmer Bernstein & Don Black (True Grit)
- “Come Saturday Morning”, Fred Karlin & Dory Previn (The Sterile Cuckoo)
- “Get a Bloomin’ Move On” a.k.a. “The Self-Preservation Society”, Quincy Jones & Don Black (The Italian Job)

BEST SOUND

The Wild Bunch – WINNER!

- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Battle Of Britain
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Milky Way
- They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

BEST FILM EDITING

Midnight Cowboy (Hugh A. Robertson) – WINNER! (tied)
Z (Françoise Bonnot) – WINNER! (tied)

- The Wild Bunch (Lou Lombardo)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Frederic Steinkamp)
- The Cremator (Jaromír Janácek)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Fellini Satyricon (Luigi Scaccianoce, production designer; Luigi Scaccianoce and Giorgio Giovanni, art directors) – WINNER!

- Anne of the Thousand Days (Maurice Carter, production designer; Lionel Couch, art director; Peter Howitt and Patrick McLoughlin, set decorators)
- Hello, Dolly! (John De Cuir – production designer; Jack Martin Smith and Herman A. Blumenthal – art directors; Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, and Raphael Bretton – set decorators)
- The Damned (Vincenzo Del Prato, production designer; Pasquale Romano, art director)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Harry Horner, production designer; Frank R. McKelvy, set decorator)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Anne of the Thousand Days (Margaret Furse) – WINNER!

- Fellini Satyricon (Danilo Donati)
- Hello, Dolly! (Irene Sharaff)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Donfeld)
- Women in Love (Shirley Russell)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – WINNER!

- Battle of Britain
- Marooned
- La Residencia
- The Wild Bunch

BEST SHORT FILM

Vinni-Pukh / Winnie the Pooh – WINNER!

- Bambi Meets Godzilla
- It’s Tough to Be a Bird
- Ballerina on the Boat
- En marchant / Walking
- Of Men and Demons
- Spheres

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Gordon Bau and James E. Reynolds for the makeup of The Illustrated Man – WINNER!

- Bob Fosse for the choreography of Sweet Charity

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