The 41st Academy Awards (1968): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 11
  • 8
  • 7
  • 7
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • Oliver!
  • Funny Girl
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Star!
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Rachel, Rachel
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Faces
  • 5
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • Oliver!
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Bullitt
  • Charly
  • Funny Girl
  • Journey into Self
  • The Producers
  • Robert Kennedy Remembered
  • The Subject Was Roses
  • The Thomas Crown Affair
  • War and Peace
  • Why Man Creates
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

  • Funny Girl - Ray Stark
  • The Lion in Winter - Martin Poll
  • Oliver! - John Woolf
  • Rachel, Rachel - Paul Newman
  • Romeo and Juliet - Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne

DIRECTING

  • The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo
  • The Lion in Winter - Anthony Harvey
  • Oliver! - Carol Reed
  • Romeo and Juliet - Franco Zeffirelli
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

ACTOR

  • Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Alan Bates - The Fixer
  • Ron Moody - Oliver!
  • Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter
  • Cliff Robertson - Charly

ACTRESS

  • Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter [1]
  • Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses
  • Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora
  • Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl [1]
  • Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • Jack Albertson - The Subject Was Roses
  • Seymour Cassel - Faces
  • Daniel Massey - Star!
  • Jack Wild - Oliver!
  • Gene Wilder - The Producers

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Lynn Carlin - Faces
  • Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby
  • Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Kay Medford - Funny Girl
  • Estelle Parsons - Rachel, Rachel

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

  • The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
  • The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
  • Oliver! - Vernon Harris
  • Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern
  • Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski

STORY AND SCREENPLAY (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen)

  • The Battle of Algiers - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Faces - John Cassavetes
  • Hot Millions - Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
  • The Producers - Mel Brooks
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

SONG (Song--Original for the Picture)

  • "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Music, Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
  • "For Love of Ivy" - For Love of Ivy - Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell
  • "Funny Girl" - Funny Girl - Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Bob Merrill
  • "Star!" - Star! - Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "The Windmills of Your Mind" - The Thomas Crown Affair - Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman

Original Score (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a Musical])

  • The Fox - Lalo Schifrin
  • The Lion in Winter - John Barry
  • Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith
  • The Shoes of the Fisherman - Alex North
  • The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand

Original Score (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation)

  • Finian's Rainbow - Adaptation Score by Ray Heindorf
  • Funny Girl - Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
  • Oliver! - Adaptation Score by John Green
  • Star! - Adaptation Score by Lennie Hayton
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort - Music, Adaptation Score by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Jacques Demy

FILM EDITING

  • Bullitt - Frank P. Keller
  • Funny Girl - Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands
  • The Odd Couple - Frank Bracht
  • Oliver! - Ralph Kemplen
  • Wild in the Streets - Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Funny Girl - Harry Stradling
  • Ice Station Zebra - Daniel L. Fapp
  • Oliver! - Oswald Morris
  • Romeo and Juliet - Pasqualino De Santis
  • Star! - Ernest Laszlo

ART DIRECTION

  • Oliver! - Art Direction: John Box, Terence Marsh; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston
  • The Shoes of the Fisherman - Art Direction: George W. Davis, Edward Carfagno
  • Star! - Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Howard Bristol
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Art Direction: Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer
  • War and Peace - Art Direction: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Myasnikov; Set Decoration: G. Koshelev, V. Uvarov

COSTUME DESIGN

  • The Lion in Winter - Margaret Furse
  • Oliver! - Phyllis Dalton
  • Planet of the Apes - Morton Haack
  • Romeo and Juliet - Danilo Donati
  • Star! - Donald Brooks

SOUND

  • Bullitt - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
  • Finian's Rainbow - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
  • Funny Girl - Columbia Studio Sound Department
  • Oliver! - Shepperton Studio Sound Department
  • Star! - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Ice Station Zebra - Hal Millar, J. McMillan Johnson
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • The Boys of Paul Street - Hungary
  • The Firemen's Ball - Czechoslovakia
  • The Girl with the Pistol - Italy
  • Stolen Kisses - France
  • War and Peace - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • A Few Notes on Our Food Problem - James Blue
  • Journey into Self - Bill McGaw [2]
  • The Legendary Champions - William Cayton
  • Other Voices - David H. Sawyer
  • Young Americans - Robert Cohn, Alex Grasshoff [2]

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • The House that Ananda Built - Fali Bilimoria
  • The Revolving Door - Lee R. Bobker
  • A Space to Grow - Thomas P. Kelly Jr.
  • A Way Out of the Wilderness - Dan E. Weisburd
  • Why Man Creates - Saul Bass

SHORT SUBJECT (Cartoon)

  • The House that Jack Built - Wolf Koenig, Jim MacKay
  • The Magic Pear Tree - Jimmy Murakami
  • Windy Day - John Hubley, Faith Hubley
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - Walt Disney

SHORT SUBJECT (Live Action)

  • The Dove - George Coe, Sidney Davis, Anthony Lover
  • Duo - National Film Board of Canada
  • Prelude - John Astin
  • Robert Kennedy Remembered - Charles Guggenheim

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes.
  • To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Martha Raye

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

  • To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures. [Film]
  • 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]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

  • To EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 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 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]
  • To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film. [Film]
  • To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY and PRODUCERS SERVICE COMPANY for the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer. [Laboratory]
  • To OPTICAL COATING LABORATORIES, INC. for the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems. [Lenses and Filters]
  • To DONALD W. NORWOOD for the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters. [Photography]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

  • 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]
  • 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]

ACADEMY NOTES

  1. A tie.
  2. At the 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.