42nd Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1970 took place on April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. It was the 42nd Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1969.
- 3.1 Honorary Oscar
- 3.2 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
- 3.3 Scientific and Engineering Award
- 3.4 Technical Achievement Award
Presentation
There was this year, no official moderator.
Winners and nominations
Best Picture
Midnight Cowboy ( Midnight Cowboy ) - Jerome Hellman
Best Director
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy ( Midnight Cowboy )
Best Actor
John Wayne - True Grit (True Grit )
Best Actress
Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie )
Best Supporting Actor
Gig Young - Horses, Do it the coup de grace ( They Shoot Horses, Do not They? )
Best Supporting Actress
Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower ( Cactus Flower)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Midnight Cowboy ( Midnight Cowboy ) - Waldo Salt
Best Original Screenplay
Two bandits ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) - William Goldman
Best Camera
Two bandits ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) - Conrad L. Hall
Best Art
Hello, Dolly! - John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman A. Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, Raphael Bretton
Best Costume Design
Queen of the Thousand Days ( Anne of the Thousand Days ) - Margaret Furse
Best Editing
Z - Françoise Bonnot
Best Sound
Hello, Dolly! - Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack
Best Visual Effects
Lost in Space ( Marooned ) - Robie Robinson
Best Score ( Drama / Comedy )
Two bandits ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) - Burt Bacharach
Best Original Score ( Music Film )
Hello, Dolly! - Lennie Hayton, Lionel Newman
Best Song
" Raindrops Keep Fallin 'on My Head" from Two bandits ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) - Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Best Short Film
The Magic Machines - Joan Keller Stern
Best Cartoon
It's Tough to Be a Bird - Ward Kimball
Best Documentary (Short Film )
Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders, Robert M. Fresco
Best Documentary
L' Amour de la vie - Artur Rubinstein, Bernard Chevry
Best Foreign Language Film
Z by Costa -Gavras - Algeria