41st Academy Awards

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41st Academy Awards
Date	Monday, April 14, 1969
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	None
Producer	Gower Champion
Director	Gower Champion
TV in the United States
Network	ABC

The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

Contents 1 Winners 1.1 Feature Films 1.2 Acting 1.3 Screenplay & Direction 2 Presenters/Attendees 3 Performers 4 Further reading

[edit] Winners

[edit] 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

[edit] Acting

Category	Winner	Movie
Best actor in a leading role	Cliff Robertson	Charly
Best actress in a leading role	Katharine Hepburn	The Lion in Winter
	Barbra Streisand	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

[edit] 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!

[edit] Presenters/Attendees

• Jack Albertson (Winner: Best Supporting Actor)
• 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)
• Ruth Gordon (Winner: Best Supporting Actress)
• 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 (Accepting the Best Actor award for Cliff Robertson)
• Sidney Poitier (Co-Presenter: Best Picture)
• Carol Reed (Winner: Best Director)
• 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)
• Barbra Streisand (Winner: Best Actress)
• Natalie Wood (Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration & Scientific & Technical Awards)

[edit] Performers

• José Feliciano ("The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair) *the award winner
• Aretha Franklin ("Funny Girl" from Funny Girl)
• Abbey Lincoln ("For the Love of Ivy" from For the Love of Ivy)
• Sidney Poitier, Ingrid Bergman, Paula Kelly and the UCLA Band ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film))

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[edit] Further reading

• "Pushing the Oscar envelope, The Academy Awards broadcast has not always been as tame as in recent years. Heres a look back at some weird and wacky moments in Hollywoods biggest night", Newsday, 2005-02-20.