1969 (42nd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1969 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger Production; United Artists. Jerome Hellman, Producer.

Best Actor

John Wayne in True Grit, Hal Wallis Productions; Paramount.

Best Actress

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 20th Century-Fox Productions, Ltd.; 20th Century-Fox. (UK)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack Production; ABC Pictures Presentation; Cinerama.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower, Frankovich Productions; Columbia.

Directing

Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger Production; United Artists. John Schlesinger.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Hello, Dolly!, Chenault Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith and Herman Blumenthal; set decoration by Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins and Raphael Bretton.

Cinematography

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production; 20th Century-Fox. Conrad Hall.

Costume Design

Anne of the Thousand Days, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK) Margaret Furse.

Documentary

(Feature)

Arthur Rubinstein—The Love of Life, Midem Production. (France) Bernard Chevry, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Czechoslovakia 1968, Sanders-Fresco Film Makers for The United States Information Agency. Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers.

Film Editing

Z, Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C. Production; Cinema V Distributing. (France, Algeria) Françoise Bonnot.

Foreign Language Film

Z, Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C. Production; Cinema V Distributing. (France, Algeria)

Music

(Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical])

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production; 20th Century-Fox. Burt Bacharach.

(Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)

Hello, Dolly!, Chenault Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman.

(Song [Original for the Picture])

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music by Burt Bacharach; lyrics by Hal David.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

It’s Tough to Be a Bird, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Ward Kimball, Producer.

(Live Action)

The Magic Machines, Fly-By-Night Productions; Manson Distributing Corporation. Joan Keller Stern, Producer.

Sound

Hello, Dolly!, Chenault Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack.

Special Visual Effects

Marooned, Frankovich-Sturges Production; Columbia. Robbie Robertson.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger Production; United Artists. Waldo Salt.

(Story and Screenplay—based on material not previously published or produced)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production; 20th Century-Fox. William Goldman.

Honorary Award

To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

George Jessel

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Hazeltine Corporation for the design and development of the Hazeltine Color Film Analyzer.

To Fouad Said for the design and introduction of the Cinemobile series of equipment trucks for location motion picture production.

To Juan de la Cierva and Dynasciences Corporation for the design and development of the Dynalens optical image motion compensator.

(Class III)

To Otto Popelka of Magna-Tech Electronics Company, Inc., for the development of an Electronically Controlled Looping System.

To Fenton Hamilton of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios for the concept and engineering of a mobile battery power unit for location lighting.

To Panavision, Incorporated, for the design and development of the Panaspeed Motion Picture Camera Motor.

To Robert M. Flynn and Russell Hessey of Universal City Studios, Inc. for a machine-gun modification for motion picture photography.