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42nd Academy Awards

Date

Tuesday, April 7, 1970

Site

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Host

None

Producer

M.J. Frankovich

Director

Jack Haley, Jr.

Highlights

Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy

Most awards

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4 wins)

Most nominations

Anne of the Thousand Days and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (10 nominations)

TV in the United States

Network

ABC

Duration

2 hours, 25 minutes

Ratings

43.4% (Nielsen ratings)

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The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings.

Midnight Cowboy became the first - and so far, the only - X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture: Oliver!.

This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards where none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees.

Contents

1 Winners and nominees
2 See also
3 References

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]^[2]

Best Picture	Best Director
*Midnight Cowboy* Anne of the Thousand Days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Z	John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Costa-Gavras - Z
Best Actor	Best Actress
John Wayne - True Grit Richard Burton - Anne of the Thousand Days Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy	Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Anthony Quayle - Anne of the Thousand Days Elliott Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider Rupert Crosse - The Reivers	Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Catherine Burns - Last Summer Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy Susannah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker The Damned - Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti Easy Rider - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern The Wild Bunch - Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner and Sam Peckinpah	Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe and Robert E. Thompson Z - Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
*Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life* Before the Mountain Was Moved In the Year of the Pig Olimpiada en México The Wolf Men	*Czechoslovakia 1968* - Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer Jenny Is a Good Thing Leo Beuerman The Magic Machines
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
*The Magic Machines* - Joan Keller Stern Blake - National Film Board of Canada - Doug Jackson People Soup - Marc Merson	*It's Tough to Be a Bird* - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista Distribution - Ward Kimball Of Men and Demons - Hubley Studios, Paramount - John Hubley and Faith Hubley Walking - National Film Board of Canada, Columbia - Ryan Larkin
Best Original Score (not a musical)	Best Original or Adaptation Score
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach Anne of the Thousand Days – Georges Delerue The Reivers – John Williams The Secret of Santa Vittoria – Ernest Gold The Wild Bunch – Jerry Fielding	Hello, Dolly! – Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by John Williams Paint Your Wagon – Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle Sweet Charity – Adaptation score by Cy Coleman They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Adaptation score by John Green and Albert Woodbury
Best Original Song	Best Sound Mixing
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" "Come Saturday Morning" — The Sterile Cuckoo • Music: Fred Karlin • Lyrics: Dory Previn "Jean" — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie • Music and lyrics: Rod McKuen "True Grit" — True Grit • Music: Elmer Bernstein • Lyrics: Don Black "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" — The Happy Ending • Music: Michel Legrand • Lyrics: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman	Hello, Dolly! - Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack Anne of the Thousand Days - John Aldred Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Edmondson and David Dockendorf Gaily, Gaily - Robert Martin and Clem Portman Marooned - Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Costume Design
Z - Algeria Adalen 31 - Sweden The Battle of Neretva - Yugoslavia The Brothers Karamazov - Soviet Union My Night at Maud's - France	Anne of the Thousand Days - Margaret Furse Hello, Dolly! - Irene Sharaff Gaily, Gaily - Ray Aghayan Sweet Charity - Edith Head They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Don Feld
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Hello, Dolly! - John Decuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton Anne of the Thousand Days - Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch, Patrick McLoughlin Gaily, Gaily - Robert F. Boyle, George B. Chan, Edward G. Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe Sweet Charity – Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Jack D. Moore They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Harry Horner, Frank McKelvy –	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Conrad L. Hall Anne of the Thousand Days - Arthur Ibbetson Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Charles Lang Hello, Dolly! - Harry Stradling (posthumous nomination) Marooned - Daniel L. Fapp
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
1969 Z—Françoise Bonnot Hello, Dolly!—William H. Reynolds Midnight Cowboy—Hugh A. Robertson The Secret of Santa Vittoria—William A. Lyon, Earle Herdan They Shoot Horses, Don't They?—Fredric Steinkamp	Marooned - Robbie Robertson Krakatoa, East of Java - Eugène Lourié and Alex Weldon

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

10 nominations: Anne of the Thousand Days
9 nominations: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
7 nominations: Hello, Dolly! and Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5 nominations: Z
4 nominations: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
3 nominations: Gaily, Gaily, Marooned and Sweet Charity
2 nominations: Easy Rider, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Happy Ending, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Reivers, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Sterile Cuckoo, True Grit and The Wild Bunch

The following films received multiple awards.

4 wins: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3 wins: Hello, Dolly! and Midnight Cowboy
2 wins: Z

Presenters

Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress, Documentary Awards)
Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Costume Design, and Original Song)
Claudia Cardinale (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film)
Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
Elliott Gould (Presenter: Best Sound)
Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Documentary Awards)
James Earl Jones (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay)
Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Films, Art Direction, and Best Director)
Ali MacGraw (Presenter: Best Original Screenplay)
Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Score, Non-Musical)
Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Original Score & Short Subject Awards)
Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay)
Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to Cary Grant)
Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture)
Jon Voight (Presenter: Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay)
John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
Raquel Welch (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)

Performers

Glen Campbell ("True Grit" from True Grit)
Michel Legrand ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending)
Lou Rawls ("Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
B.J. Thomas ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

References

^ The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
^ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/42nd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-01-11.

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Merit awards	Best Picture Best Director Best Leading Actor Best Leading Actress Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Animated Feature Best Art Direction Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Subject Best Film Editing Best Foreign Language Film (Winners and nominees) Best Makeup Best Original Score Best Original Song Best Animated Short Film Best Live Action Short Film Best Sound Mixing Best Sound Editing Best Visual Effects

Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Special Achievement Academy Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Retired awards	Best Assistant Director Best Dance Direction Best Director of a Comedy Picture Best Engineering Effects Best Short Subject, Two-reel Best Short Subject, Color Best Short Subject, Novelty Best Original Musical Best Original Story Best Title Writing Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production Academy Juvenile Award

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