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Encyclopedia > 41st Academy Awards
41st Academy Awards

Date Monday, April 14, 1969
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Preshow {{{preshow}}}
Host None
Producer Gower Champion
Director Gower Champion
Duration {{{duration}}}

The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host. April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation). ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ... Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ... April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation). ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...

Contents


Winners

Feature Films

Category Winner
Best motion picture Oliver! John Woolf
Best foreign language film War and Peace Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Best documentary feature Young Americans (later declared ineligible) Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff
Best animated feature

Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films. ... War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Vojna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Vojna i mir) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Young Americans is: The album Young Americans by David Bowie An American television drama A documentary film that won the documentary Oscar in 1968 but was later disqualified: Young Americans A 1993 film: Young Americans This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise...

Acting

Category Winner Movie
Best actor in a leading role Cliff Robertson Charly
Best actress in a leading role Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand (tie) The Lion in Winter and Funny Girl
Best actor in a supporting role Jack Albertson The Subject Was Roses
Best actress in a supporting role Ruth Gordon Rosemary's Baby

Cliff Robertson Clifford Parker Robertson III (born September 9, 1925) is an American actor notable for his performances in PT 109 (as the young John F. Kennedy), The Best Man, Charly (for which he won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor), Picnic, Obsession, Autumn Leaves and Star 80. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1968 films | Science fiction films | Best Actor Oscar (film) ... Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. ... Barbra Streisand - Guilty Pleasures. ... The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman. ... Funny Girl is a 1964 semi-biographical musical that tells the story of Broadway star Fanny Brice. ... Jack Albertson (June 16, 1907 - November 25, 1981) was considered a complete entertainer from the old school. ... The Subject Was Roses is a 1968 film which tells the story of a young soldier who comes home to find that his parents marriage is on the verge of collapse. ... Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American actress and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for her role as the oversolicitous neighbor in Roman Polanskis adaptation of Ira Levins novel Rosemarys Baby, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Supporting... Spoiler warning: Rosemarys Baby is the title of a 1967 horror novel by Ira Levin, in which a young woman and her husband move into a New York City apartment next door to enthusiastic, oversolicitous neighbors. ...

Screenplay & Direction

Category Winner Movie
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Mel Brooks The Producers
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium James Goldman The Lion in Winter
Best Director Carol Reed Oliver!

Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a Jewish-American actor, writer director, and theatrical producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. ... The Producers may refer to one of the following: American actor and writer director Mel Brooks comedy about two con-men who attempt to cheat theatre investors out of their investment money. ... James Goldman (June 30, 1929 - October 28, 1998) was an American playwright, and screenwriter, and brother of William Goldman. ... The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman. ... Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ...

Presenters/Attendees

  • Ingrid Bergman (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Best Cinematography)
  • Diahann Carroll (Co-Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects, Documentary Awards & Honorary Award to Onna White)
  • Tony Curtis (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action & Documentary Awards)
  • Jane Fonda (Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Costume Design & Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action)
  • Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
  • Burt Lancaster (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Special Visual Effects, Scientific & Technical Awards)
  • Mark Lester (Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White)
  • Henry Mancini (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
  • Walter Matthau (Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing & Honorary Award to John Chambers)
  • Marni Nixon (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
  • Gregory Peck
  • Sidney Poitier (Co-Presenter: Best Picture)
  • Rosalind Russell (Co-Presenter: Best Original Score, Best Sound & Writing Awards)
  • Frank Sinatra (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Song & Writing Awards)
  • Natalie Wood (Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration & Scientific & Technical Awards)

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca Ingrid Bergman ( (help· info)) (29 August 1915 – 30 August [1]1982) was an Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. ... Diahann Carroll, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American actress and singer. ... Tony Curtis at the height of his fame in the 1950s Roger Moore and Tony Curtis in The Persuaders! Tony Curtis (born June 3, 1925). ... Jane Fonda Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actor, writer, producer, and political activist. ... Bob Hope receiving an (honorary) Oscar For other uses, see Bob Hope (disambiguation). ... Burt Lancaster Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994), was a noted American composer and arranger. ... Walter Matthau Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was a Jewish American comedy actor. ... Marni Nixon (born February 22, 1930) is a singer whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in movies earned her the sobriquet The Ghostess with the Mostess. She was born Margaret McEathron in Altadena, California and began singing at a young age in choruses. ... Gregory Peck at Cannes, 2000 Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American film actor. ... Sidney Poitier His Excellency Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor. ... Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was an American film and stage actress. ... Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered by many to have been the finest male popular song vocalist of all time. ... Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko) (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981), was an American film actress. ...

Performers

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