1970 Oscars 42nd Academy Awards |
Winners Announced: April 7, 1970 Cinematic Highlights and Achievements
Trivia and Fascinating Facts
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1970 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy – Jerome Hellman, producer (WINNER) Anne of the Thousand Days – Hal B. Wallis, producer Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – John Foreman, producer Hello, Dolly! – Ernest Lehman, producer Z – Jacques Perrin and Ahmed Rachedi, producers |
| Best Director: John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy (WINNER) 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: John Wayne – True Grit as Rooster Cogburn (WINNER) Richard Burton – Anne of the Thousand Days as King Henry VIII of England Dustin Hoffman – Midnight Cowboy as Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo Peter O’Toole – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Arthur Chipping Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck |
| Best Actress: Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie (WINNER) Geneviève Bujold – Anne of the Thousand Days as Anne Boleyn Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? as Gloria Beatty Liza Minnelli – The Sterile Cuckoo as Mary Ann “Pookie” Adams Jean Simmons – The Happy Ending as Mary Wilson |
| Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? as Rocky (WINNER) Rupert Crosse – The Reivers as Ned Elliott Gould – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Jack Nicholson – Easy Rider as George Hanson Anthony Quayle – Anne of the Thousand Days as Thomas Wolsey |
| Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower as Toni Simmons (WINNER) Catherine Burns – Last Summer as Rhoda Dyan Cannon – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Alice Henderson Sylvia Miles – Midnight Cowboy as Cass Susannah York – They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? as Alice LeBlanc |
| Best Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman (WINNER) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker The Damned – Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, and Luchino Visconti Easy Rider – Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern The Wild Bunch – Story by Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah |
| Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy (WINNER) Anne of the Thousand Days – Screenplay by John Hale and Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove based on the play by Maxwell Anderson Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman based on the novel by Philip Roth They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson based on the novel by Horace McCoy Z – Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras based on the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos |
| Best Documentary Feature: Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (WINNER) Before the Mountain Was Moved In the Year of the Pig Olimpiada en México The Wolf Men |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: Czechoslovakia 1968 – Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco (WINNER) An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer Jenny Is a Good Thing Leo Beuerman The Magic Machines |
| Best Live Action Short Subject: The Magic Machines – Joan Keller Stern (WINNER) Blake – Doug Jackson People Soup – Marc Merson |
| Best Short Subject – Cartoons: It’s Tough to Be a Bird – Ward Kimball (WINNER) Of Men and Demons – John Hubley and Faith Hubley Walking – Ryan Larkin |
| Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach (WINNER) Anne of the Thousand Days – Georges Delerue The Reivers – John Williams The Secret of Santa Vittoria – Ernest Gold The Wild Bunch – Jerry Fielding |
| Best Score of a Musical Picture – Original or Adaptation: Hello, Dolly! – Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (WINNER) 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 Johnny Green and Albert Woodbury |
| Best Song Original for the Picture: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach and Hal David for “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (WINNER) “Come Saturday Morning” – The Sterile Cuckoo • Music by Fred Karlin • Lyrics by Dory Previn “Jean” – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie • Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen “True Grit” – True Grit • Music by Elmer Bernstein • Lyrics by Don Black “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” – The Happy Ending • Music by Michel Legrand • Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
| Best Sound: Hello, Dolly! – Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack (WINNER) 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: Z (Algeria) (WINNER) Ådalen 31 (Sweden) Battle of Neretva (Yugoslavia) The Brothers Karamazov (Soviet Union) My Night at Maud’s (France) |
| Best Costume Design: Anne of the Thousand Days – Margaret Furse (WINNER) Gaily, Gaily – Ray Aghayan Hello, Dolly! – Irene Sharaff Sweet Charity – Edith Head They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Donfeld |
| Best Art Direction: Hello, Dolly! – Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, and Herman A. Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, and Raphaël Bretton (WINNER) Anne of the Thousand Days – Art Direction: Maurice Carter and Lionel Couch; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin Gaily, Gaily – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle and George B. Chan; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle and Carl Biddiscombe Sweet Charity – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Frank R. McKelvy |
| Best Cinematography: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad Hall (WINNER) 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: Z – Françoise Bonnot (WINNER) Hello, Dolly! – William H. Reynolds Midnight Cowboy – Hugh A. Robertson The Secret of Santa Vittoria – William Lyon and Earle Herdan They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Fredric Steinkamp |
| Best Special Visual Effects: Marooned – Robbie Robertson (WINNER) Krakatoa, East of Java – Eugène Lourié and Alex Weldon |
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