42nd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 42nd
caption = "Midnight Cowboy"
date = Tuesday, April 7, 1970
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = None
producer = M.J. Frankovich
director = Jack Haley, Jr.
network = ABC
duration = 2 hours, 25 minutes
ratings = 43.4% (Nielsen ratings)
last = 41st
next =43rdThe 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

This is currently the highest rated show according to Nielsen ratings.

Winners

Best Picture

"Midnight Cowboy"
*"Anne of the Thousand Days"
*"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
*"Hello, Dolly!"
*"Z"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"True Grit - John Wayne"
*"Anne of the Thousand Days - Richard Burton"
*"Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Peter O'Toole"
*"Midnight Cowboy - Dustin Hoffman"
*"Midnight Cowboy - John Voight"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Maggie Smith"
*"Anne of the Thousand Days - Genevieve Bujold"
*"The Happy Ending - Jean Simmons"
*"The Sterile Cuckoo - Liza Minnelli"
*"They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Jane Fonda"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"They Shoot Horses, Don't They - Gig Young"
*"Anne of the Thousand Days - Anthony Quayle"
*"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Elliot Gould"
*"Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson"
*"The Reivers - Rupert Crosse"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Cactus Flower - Goldie Hawn"
*"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Dyan Cannon"
*"Last Summer - Catherine Burns"
*"Midnight Cowboy - Sylvia Miles"
*"They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Susannah York"

Best Director

"Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger"
*"Alice's Restaurant - Arthur Penn"
*"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill"
*"They Shoot Horses, Don't They - Sydney Pollack"
*"Z - Costa-Gavras"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"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 - George Semprun and Costa-Gavras"

Best Original 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"

Best Cinematography

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Conrad L. Hall"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Hello, Dolly! - John DeCuir , Jack Martin Smith , Herman A. Blumenthal , Walter M. Scott , George James Hopkins and Raphael Bretton"

Best Costume Design

"Anne of the Thousand Days - Margaret Furse"

Best Sound

"Hello, Dolly! - Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack"

Best Film Editing

"Z - Francoise Bonnot"

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

"Marooned - Robie Robinson"

Best Music, Original Song

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"

Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)

"Hello, Dolly! - Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman"

Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Burt Bacharach"

Best Short Subjects, Cartoons

"It's Tough to Be a Bird"

Best Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects

"The Magic Machines"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Czechoslovakia 1968"

Best Documentary, Features

"Love of Life"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Z - Algeria"

Presenters/Attendees

*Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress & Documentary Awards)
*Burt Bacharach (Winner: Best Song) & Angie Dickinson
*Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Costume Design, and Song)
*Elmer Bernstein (Nominee: Best Original Song & Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
*Richard Burton (Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role)
*Claudia Cardinale (Presenter: Best Film Editing & Best Foreign Film)
*Hal David (Winner: Best Song)
*Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Film)
*Jane Fonda (Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role)
*Alice Ghostley (accepting Best Actress Award for Maggie Smith)
*Elliot Gould (Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role & Presenter: Best Sound)
*Cary Grant (Honorary Award Recipient)
*Bob Hope (Presenter: Hersholt Award & Documentary Awards)
*James Earl Jones (Presenter: Best Film Editing & Best Original Screenplay)
*Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Films, Art Direction, and Best Director)
*Ali MacGraw (Co-Presenter: Best Original Screenplay)
*Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Score (non-Musical))
*Liza Minnelli (Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role)
*Lionel Newman (Winner: Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation))
*Gregory Peck
*Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Original Score & Short Subject Awards)
*Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor & Best Adapted Screenplay, and accepting Original Screenplay Award for William Goldman)
*Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to Cary Grant)
*Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Actor)
*Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture)
*Jon Voight (Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction & Best Adapted Screenplay, and accepting Best Director Award for John Schlesinger)
*Shani Wallis (Presenter: Best Score (Musical))
*John Wayne (Best Actor Winner/Presenter: Best Cinematography)
*Raquel Welch (Presenter: Special Visual Effects, and accepting Supporting Actress Award for Goldie Hawn)
*Billy Wilder
*Gig Young (Best Supporting Actor Winner)
*Peter Fonda
*Dennis HopperIn Pre-Recorded Segment:
*Ingmar Bergman
*Sergei Bondarchuk
*Federico Fellini
*Akira Kurosawa
*Mike Nichols
*John Schlesinger
*Franco Zeffirelli

Performers

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