Best Picture Winner
Oliver!
Best Picture
Director: Carol Reed
Studio: Columbia
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel about an orphan boy who falls in with a group of street criminals in London.
From the Worthy Podcast
The end of the musical era?
This was the last musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture until Chicago (2002) 34 years later, though others were nominated: Hello, Dolly! (1969), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Cabaret (1972), All That Jazz (1979), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Moulin Rouge! (2001). Before 'Oliver!', the musicals The Broadway Melody (1929), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Going My Way (1944), An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Sound of Music (1965) had all won Best Picture Oscars.
All Categories (26)
Best Picture
Oliver!— John Woolf, Producer
Winner
Funny Girl— Ray Stark, Producer
Rachel, Rachel— Paul Newman, Producer
Romeo and Juliet— Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne, Producers
The Lion in Winter— Martin Poll, Producer
Actor
Alan Arkin— The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter {"Singer"}
Alan Bates— The Fixer {"Yakov Bok"}
Peter O'Toole— The Lion in Winter {"King Henry II"}
Ron Moody— Oliver! {"Fagin"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Daniel Massey— Star! {"Noel Coward"}
Gene Wilder— The Producers {"Leo Bloom"}
Jack Wild— Oliver! {"The Artful Dodger"}
Seymour Cassel— Faces {"Chet"}
Actress
Katharine Hepburn— The Lion in Winter {"Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine"}
Winner
A tie. The other winner in this category was Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl).
Barbra Streisand— Funny Girl {"Fanny Brice"}
A tie. The other winner in this category was Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter).
Joanne Woodward— Rachel, Rachel {"Rachel Cameron"}
Patricia Neal— The Subject Was Roses {"Nettie Cleary"}
Vanessa Redgrave— Isadora {"Isadora Duncan"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Estelle Parsons— Rachel, Rachel {"Calla Mackie"}
Kay Medford— Funny Girl {"Rose Brice"}
Lynn Carlin— Faces {"Maria Forst"}
Sondra Locke— The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter {"Mick Kelly"}
Directing
2001: A Space Odyssey— Stanley Kubrick
Romeo and Juliet— Franco Zeffirelli
The Battle of Algiers— Gillo Pontecorvo
The Lion in Winter— Anthony Harvey
Writing (Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The Lion in Winter— James Goldman
Winner
Oliver!— Vernon Harris
Rachel, Rachel— Stewart Stern
Rosemary's Baby— Roman Polanski
The Odd Couple— Neil Simon
Writing (Story And Screenplay--Written Directly For The Screen)
The Producers— Mel Brooks
Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey— Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Faces— John Cassavetes
Hot Millions— Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
The Battle of Algiers— Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
Cinematography
Romeo and Juliet— Pasqualino De Santis
Winner
Funny Girl— Harry Stradling
Ice Station Zebra— Daniel L. Fapp
Oliver!— Oswald Morris
Star!— Ernest Laszlo
Music (Original Song)
"The Windmills Of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair— Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Winner
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang— Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
"For Love Of Ivy" from For Love of Ivy— Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell
"Funny Girl" from Funny Girl— Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Bob Merrill
"Star!" from Star!— Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Art Direction
Oliver!— Art Direction: John Box, Terence Marsh; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston
Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey— Art Direction: Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer
Star!— Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol
The Shoes of the Fisherman— Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno
War and Peace— Art Direction: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov; Set Decoration: G. Koshelev, V. Uvarov
Film Editing
Bullitt— Frank P. Keller
Winner
Funny Girl— Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands
Oliver!— Ralph Kemplen
The Odd Couple— Frank Bracht
Wild in the Streets— Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman
Sound
Oliver!— Shepperton Studio Sound Department
Winner
Bullitt— Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
Finian's Rainbow— Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
Funny Girl— Columbia Studio Sound Department
Star!— 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Costume Design
Romeo and Juliet— Danilo Donati
Winner
Oliver!— Phyllis Dalton
Planet of the Apes— Morton Haack
Star!— Donald Brooks
The Lion in Winter— Margaret Furse
Documentary (Feature)
Journey into Self— Bill McGaw, Producer
Winner
At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
A Few Notes on Our Food Problem— James Blue, Producer
Other Voices— David H. Sawyer, Producer
The Legendary Champions— William Cayton, Producer
Young Americans— Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, Producers
THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
Documentary (Short Subject)
Why Man Creates— Saul Bass, Producer
Winner
A Space to Grow— Thomas P. Kelly, Jr., Producer
A Way Out of the Wilderness— Dan E. Weisburd, Producer
The House That Ananda Built— Fali Bilimoria, Producer
The Revolving Door— Lee R. Bobker, Producer
Foreign Language Film
War and Peace— Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Winner
MUSIC (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a musical])
Planet of the Apes— Jerry Goldsmith
Stolen Kisses— France
The Boys of Paul Street— Hungary
The Firemen's Ball— Czechoslovakia
The Fox— Lalo Schifrin
The Girl with the Pistol— Italy
The Lion in Winter— John Barry
The Shoes of the Fisherman— Alex North
The Thomas Crown Affair— Michel Legrand
Honorary Award
To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes.
Winner
To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Martha Raye
Winner
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class I)
To PHILIP V. PALMQUIST of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., to DR. HERBERT MEYER of the Motion Picture and Television Research Center, and to CHARLES D. STAFFELL of the Rank Organization for the development of a successful embodiment of the reflex background projection system for composite cinematography. [Special Photographic]
Winner
To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures. [Film]
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class II)
To DONALD W. NORWOOD for the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters. [Photography]
Winner
To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY and PRODUCERS SERVICE COMPANY for the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer. [Laboratory]
To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film. [Film]
To EDMUND M. DI GIULIO, NIELS G. PETERSEN and NORMAN S. HUGHES of the Cinema Product Development Company for the design and application of a conversion which makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras. [Camera]
To OPTICAL COATING LABORATORIES, INC. for the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems. [Lenses and Filters]
To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera. [Camera]
To TODD-AO and MITCHELL CAMERA COMPANY for the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera. [Camera]
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class III)
To CARL W. HAUGE and EDWARD H. REICHARD of Consolidated Film Industries and E. MICHAEL MEAHL and ROY J. RIDENOUR of Ramtronics for engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps. [Laboratory]
Winner
To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for a new direct positive film and to CONSOLIDATED FILM INDUSTRIES for the application of this film to the making of post-production work prints. [Film]
Music (Original Song Score And Its Adaptation Or Adaptation Score)
Oliver!— Adaptation score by John Green
Winner
Finian's Rainbow— Adaptation score by Ray Heindorf
Funny Girl— Adaptation score by Walter Scharf
Star!— Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton
The Young Girls of Rochefort— Music and adaptation score by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Jacques Demy
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day— Walt Disney, Producer
Winner
The House That Jack Built— Wolf Koenig and Jim MacKay, Producers
The Magic Pear Tree— Jimmy Murakami, Producer
Windy Day— John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers
Short Subject (Live Action)
Robert Kennedy Remembered— Charles Guggenheim, Producer
Winner
Duo— National Film Board of Canada
Prelude— John Astin, Producer
The Dove— George Coe, Sidney Davis and Anthony Lover, Producers
Special Visual Effects
2001: A Space Odyssey— Stanley Kubrick
Winner
Ice Station Zebra— Hal Millar, J. McMillan Johnson