42nd Academy Awards

42nd Academy Awards

Date	April 7, 1970
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Quincy Jones
Producer	M.J. Frankovich
Director	Jack Haley, Jr.
Highlights
Best Picture	Midnight Cowboy
Most awards	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4)
Most nominations	Anne of the Thousand Days (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	2 hours, 25 minutes
Ratings	43.4% (Nielsen ratings)

The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, but only outside North America. Mexico and Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live.^[1]

This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings.

Midnight Cowboy became the first – and so far, the only – X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture: Oliver!

This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards where none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees.

This was the first time where every acting nomination, as well as every major nominated film were in color.

The ceremony

This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the ABC television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (broadcasting the event since 1953, but only live since 1964), only two South American countries, Chile and Brazil, roughly in the Oscars' time zone, were interested in the live coverage. The Chilean television rights to the Oscars were sold by ABC International to Televisión Nacional de Chile while the Brazilian rights were sold to TV Tupi. The latter country's rights to the TV broadcast of the Oscars were moved to a joint venture of TV Bandeirantes and TV Record. Starting in 1974, the Brazilian TV rights to the Oscars were sold by NBC (which had acquired the TV rights to the Awards from ABC to be broadcast for a five-year period until 1975, when they returned to ABC for the next year's Awards) to Rede Globo. An early attempt to change the Academy Awards presentation's start time to 1 p.m. to fit European television audiences was rejected by AMPAS executives. Since at the time television standards conversion was difficult, about 50 other countries did not broadcast the event live. In Europe, most TV broadcasters signed off at midnight, thus the Oscars were not broadcast live and were recorded on film and then shipped to broadcasters with a minimum 4-day delay from the awards' broadcast date.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[2]^[3]

Best Picture	Best Director
*Midnight Cowboy* Anne of the Thousand Days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hello, Dolly! Z	John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy 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	Best Actress
*John Wayne – True Grit* as Rooster Cogburn** 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	*Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* as Jean Brodie** 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	Best Supporting Actress
*Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* as Rocky** 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	*Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower* as Toni Simmons** 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 Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker The Damned – Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti Easy Rider – Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern The Wild Bunch – Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner and Sam Peckinpah	Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt Anne of the Thousand Days – John Hale, Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson Z – Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
*Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life* Before the Mountain Was Moved In the Year of the Pig Olimpiada en México The Wolf Men	*Czechoslovakia 1968* – Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer Jenny Is a Good Thing Leo Beuerman The Magic Machines
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Magic Machines – Joan Keller Stern Blake – National Film Board of Canada – Doug Jackson People Soup – Marc Merson	*It's Tough to Be a Bird* – Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista Distribution – Ward Kimball Of Men and Demons – Hubley Studios, Paramount – John Hubley and Faith Hubley Walking – National Film Board of Canada, Columbia – Ryan Larkin
Best Original Score (not a musical)	Best Original or Adaptation Score
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach Anne of the Thousand Days – Georges Delerue The Reivers – John Williams The Secret of Santa Vittoria – Ernest Gold The Wild Bunch – Jerry Fielding	Hello, Dolly! – Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman 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 John Green and Albert Woodbury
Best Original Song	Best Sound Mixing
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" "Come Saturday Morning" — The Sterile Cuckoo • Music: Fred Karlin • Lyrics: Dory Previn "Jean" — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie • Music and lyrics: Rod McKuen "True Grit" — True Grit • Music: Elmer Bernstein • Lyrics: Don Black "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" — The Happy Ending • Music: Michel Legrand • Lyrics: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman	Hello, Dolly! – Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack 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	Best Costume Design
Z – Algeria Adalen 31 – Sweden The Battle of Neretva – Yugoslavia The Brothers Karamazov – Soviet Union My Night at Maud's – France	Anne of the Thousand Days – Margaret Furse Hello, Dolly! – Irene Sharaff Gaily, Gaily – Ray Aghayan Sweet Charity – Edith Head They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Donfeld
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Hello, Dolly! – John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal, Walter M. Scott, George James Hopkins, Raphael Bretton Anne of the Thousand Days – Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch, Patrick McLoughlin Gaily, Gaily – Robert F. Boyle, George B. Chan, Edward G. Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe Sweet Charity – Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Jack D. Moore They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Harry Horner, Frank McKelvy	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad L. Hall 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	Best Visual Effects
Z — Françoise Bonnot Hello, Dolly! — William H. Reynolds Midnight Cowboy — Hugh A. Robertson The Secret of Santa Vittoria — William A. Lyon, Earle Herdan They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Fredric Steinkamp	Marooned – Robbie Robertson Krakatoa, East of Java – Eugène Lourié and Alex Weldon

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

10 nominations: Anne of the Thousand Days
9 nominations: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
7 nominations: Hello, Dolly!, Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5 nominations: Z
4 nominations: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
3 nominations: Gaily, Gaily, Marooned and Sweet Charity
2 nominations: Easy Rider, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Happy Ending, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Reivers, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Sterile Cuckoo, True Grit and The Wild Bunch

The following films received multiple awards.

4 wins: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3 wins: Hello, Dolly! and Midnight Cowboy
2 wins: Z

Presenters

Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress, Documentary Awards)
Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Costume Design, and Original Song)
Claudia Cardinale (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film)
Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
Elliott Gould (Presenter: Best Sound)
Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Documentary Awards)
James Earl Jones (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay)
Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Films, Art Direction, and Best Director)
Ali MacGraw (Presenter: Best Original Screenplay)
Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Score, Non-Musical)
Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Original Score & Short Subject Awards)
Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay)
Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to Cary Grant)
Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture)
Jon Voight (Presenter: Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay)
John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
Raquel Welch (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)

Performers

Glen Campbell ("True Grit" from True Grit)
Michel Legrand ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending)
Lou Rawls ("Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
B.J. Thomas ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
Fred Astaire (untitled impromptu dance following presentation of the documentary awards)

References

↑ The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1970 on YouTube At 5:30 mark.
↑ The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
↑ "The 42nd Academy Awards (1970) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-01-11.

Academy Awards

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Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Special Achievement Academy Award Student Academy Award

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