1968 Oscars 40th Academy Awards |
Winners Announced: April 10, 1968 Held at: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California Host: Bob Hope Eligibility Year: 1967 Cinematic Highlights and AchievementsTable of Contents
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1968 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night – Walter Mirisch (WINNER) Bonnie and Clyde – Warren Beatty Doctor Dolittle – Arthur P. Jacobs The Graduate – Lawrence Turman Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Stanley Kramer |
Best Director: Mike Nichols – The Graduate (WINNER) Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde Stanley Kramer – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood Norman Jewison – In the Heat of the Night |
Best Actor: Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night as Police Chief Bill Gillespie (WINNER) Warren Beatty – Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Barrow Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock Paul Newman – Cool Hand Luke as Lucas “Cool Hand Luke” Jackson Spencer Tracy (posthumous nomination) – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton |
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton (WINNER) Anne Bancroft – The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson Faye Dunaway – Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Parker Edith Evans – The Whisperers as Mrs. Ross Audrey Hepburn – Wait Until Dark as Susy Hendrix |
Best Supporting Actor: George Kennedy – Cool Hand Luke as Dragline (WINNER) John Cassavetes – The Dirty Dozen as V.R. Franko Gene Hackman – Bonnie and Clyde as Buck Barrow Cecil Kellaway – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Monsignor Ryan Michael J. Pollard – Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss |
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons – Bonnie and Clyde as Blanche Barrow (WINNER) Carol Channing – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Muzzy Mildred Natwick – Barefoot in the Park as Ethel Banks Beah Richards – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as Mrs. Mary Prentice Katharine Ross – The Graduate as Elaine Robinson |
Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – William Rose (WINNER) Bonnie and Clyde – David Newman and Robert Benton Divorce American Style – Screenplay by Norman Lear; Story by Robert Kaufman Two for the Road – Frederic Raphael The War Is Over – Jorge Semprún |
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: In the Heat of the Night – Stirling Silliphant based on the novel by John Ball (WINNER) Cool Hand Luke – Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson based on the novel by Donn Pearce The Graduate – Buck Henry and Calder Willingham based on the novel by Charles Webb In Cold Blood – Richard Brooks based on the novel by Truman Capote Ulysses – Joseph Strick and Fred Haines based on the novel by James Joyce |
Best Foreign Language Film: Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia) (WINNER) El amor brujo (Spain) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Yugoslavia) Live for Life (France) Portrait of Chieko (Japan) |
Best Documentary Feature: The Anderson Platoon (WINNER) Festival Harvest A King’s Story A Time for Burning |
Best Documentary Short Subject: The Redwoods – Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood (WINNER) Monument to the Dream A Place to Stand See You at the Pillar While I Run This Race |
Best Live Action Short Subject: A Place to Stand – Christopher Chapman and Cam McWhirt (WINNER) Paddle to the Sea – Julian Biggs Sky over Holland – John Ferno Stop Look and Listen – Len Janson and Chuck Menville |
Best Short Subject – Cartoons: The Box (WINNER) Hypothese Beta What on Earth! |
Best Original Music Score: Thoroughly Modern Millie – Elmer Bernstein (WINNER) Cool Hand Luke – Lalo Schifrin Doctor Dolittle – Leslie Bricusse Far from the Madding Crowd – Richard Rodney Bennett In Cold Blood – Quincy Jones |
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: Camelot – Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (WINNER) Doctor Dolittle – Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Frank De Vol Thoroughly Modern Millie – André Previn and Joseph Gershenson Valley of the Dolls – John Williams |
Best Song: “Talk to the Animals” from Doctor Dolittle – Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse (WINNER) “The Bare Necessities” from The Jungle Book – Music and Lyrics by Terry Gilkyson “The Eyes of Love” from Banning – Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell “The Look of Love” from Casino Royale – Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David “Thoroughly Modern Millie” from Thoroughly Modern Millie – Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn |
Best Costume Design: Camelot – John Truscott (WINNER) Bonnie and Clyde – Theadora Van Runkle The Happiest Millionaire – Bill Thomas The Taming of the Shrew – Danilo Donati and Irene Sharaff Thoroughly Modern Millie – Jean Louis |
Best Art Direction: Camelot – Art Direction: John Truscott and Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown (WINNER) Doctor Dolittle – Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith and Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle The Taming of the Shrew – Art Direction: Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb and Giuseppe Mariani; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni and Luigi Gervasi Thoroughly Modern Millie – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol |
Best Cinematography: Bonnie and Clyde – Burnett Guffey (WINNER) Camelot – Richard H. Kline Doctor Dolittle – Robert L. Surtees The Graduate – Robert L. Surtees In Cold Blood – Conrad L. Hall |
Best Sound: In the Heat of the Night – Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department (WINNER) Camelot – Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department The Dirty Dozen – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department Doctor Dolittle – 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department Thoroughly Modern Millie – Universal City Studio Sound Department |
Best Sound Effects: The Dirty Dozen – John Poyner (WINNER) In the Heat of the Night – James Richard |
Best Film Editing: In the Heat of the Night – Hal Ashby (WINNER) Beach Red – Frank P. Keller The Dirty Dozen – Michael Luciano Doctor Dolittle – Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – Robert C. Jones |
Best Special Visual Effects: Doctor Dolittle – L. B. Abbott (WINNER) Tobruk – Howard A. Anderson and Albert Whitlock Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Gregory Peck |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Alfred Hitchcock |
Honorary Oscar: Arthur Freed was presented for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts. |
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