Film Data For 1969

New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 29, 1969. Awards presented on January 25, 1970 at Sardi's restaurant in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).

Best Picture:

Z

Best Director:

Costa-Gavras, Z

Best Actor:

Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

Best Actress:

Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider

Best Supporting Actress

Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Best Screenplay:

Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

National Board of Review (Winners were announced on January 1, 1970. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Rest of the top ten (in order of preference)

Ring of Bright Water

Topaz

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Battle of Britain

The Loves of Isadora

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Support Your Local Sheriff

True Grit

Midnight Cowboy

Best Director

Alfred Hitchcock, Topaz

Best Actor

Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Best Actress

Geraldine Page, Trilogy

Best Supporting Actor

Philippe Noiret, Topaz

Best Supporting Actress

Pamela Franklin, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Foreign Film

Shame (Sweden- 1968)

Runners-up (in order of preference)

Stolen Kisses (France- 1968)

The Damned (Italy)

La Femme Infidele  (France/Italy)

Adalen '31 (Sweden)

National Society of Film Critics (Winners announced on January 5, 1970, at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)

Best Picture

Z

Best Director

Francois Truffaut, Stolen Kisses (1968)

Best Actor

Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

Best Actress

Vanessa Redgrave, The Loves of Isadora (1968)

Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider

Best Supporting Actress (tie)

Sian Phillips, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Delphine Seyrig, Stolen Kisses (1968)

Best Screenplay

Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Best Cinematography

Lucien Ballard, The Wild Bunch

Special Awards

Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider

Ivan Passer, Intimate Lighting (1965)

The Golden Globes (Nominations were announced on January 19, 1970. Awards were presented on February 2, 1970 at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Source: Tom O’Neil’s Movie Awards). Winners listed in bold print.

Best Drama Picture

Anne of a Thousand Days

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Midnight Cowboy

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Comedy or Musical Picture

Cactus Flower

Goodbye, Columbus

Hello, Dolly!

Paint Your Wagon

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Best Director

Charles Jarrott, Anne of a Thousand Days

Gene Kelly, Hello, Dolly!

Stanley Kramer, The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy

Best Actor, Drama

Alan Arkin, Popi

Richard Burton, Anne of a Thousand Days

Duston Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy

Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

John Wayne, True Grit

Best Actress, Drama

Genevieve Bujold, Anne of a Thousand Days

Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo

Jean Simmons, The Happy Ending

Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical

Dustin Hoffman, John and Mary

Lee Marvin, Paint Your Wagon

Steve McQueen, The Reivers

Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Anthony Quinn, The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Best Actress, Comedy or Musical

Ingrid Bergman, Cactus Flower

Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Kim Darby, True Grit

Patty Duke, Me, Natalie

Mia Farrow, John and Mary

Shirley MacLaine, Sweet Charity

Anna Magnini, The Secrey of Santa Vittoria

Barbara Streisand, Hello, Dolly!

Best Supporting Actor

Red Buttons, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider

Anthony Quayle, Anne of a Thousand Days

Mitch Vogel, The Reivers

Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Supporting Actress

Marianne McAndrew, Hello, Dolly!

Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower

Sian Phillips, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Brenda Vaccaro, Midnight Cowboy

Susannah York, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Original Song

"Goodbye Columbus" from Goodbye Columbus. Music and Lyrics by Jim Yester

"Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David. 

"Stay" from The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Music by Ernest Gold. Lyrics by Norman Gimbel

"The Time for Love is Any Time" from Cactus Flower. Lyrics by Cynthia Weil. Music by Quincy Jones

"True Grit" from True Grit. Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Don Black

"What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending. Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Best Original Score

Burt Bacharach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Leslie Bricusse, Goodbye, Mr., Chips

Georges Delerue, Anne of a Thousand Days

Ernest Gold, The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Michel Legrand, The Happy Ending

Best Screenplay

John Hale, Bridget Boland, Anne of a Thousand Days

William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John Mortimer, John and Mary

Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy

David Shaw, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Most Promising Newcomer- Male

Helmut Berger, The Damned

Glen Campbell, True Grit

Michael Douglas, Hail Hero

George Lazenby, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

Most Promising Newcomer- Female

Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower

Ali MacGraw, Goodbye, Columbus

Marianne McAndrew, Hello Dolly

Brenda Vaccaro, Where It's At

Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film 

Adalen '31 (Sweden)

The Big Dig (Israel)

Fellini's Satyricon (Italy)

Girls in the Sun (Greece)

Z (Algeria/France) (award refused)

Best English-Language Foreign Film

The Assassination Bureau (United Kingdom)

If (United Kingdom)

The Italian Job (United Kingdom)

Mayerling (France)

Oh! What a Lovely War (United Kingdom)

World Film Favorites

Steve McQueen

Barbara Streisand

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Joan Crawford

The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 16, 1970. Awards presented on April 7th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremony was telecast by ABC. Sources Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards and Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside Oscar)

Best Picture

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. Produced by Hal B. Wallis.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by John Foreman.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Ernest Lehman.

Midnight Cowboy, Hellman-Schlesinger, UA. Produced by Jerome Hellman.

Z, Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V (Algerian). Produced by Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi.

Best Director

Costa-Gavras for Z (Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V (Algerian).

George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox). 

Arthur Penn for Alice's Restaurant (Florin Prod.,UA).

Sydney Pollack for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama).

John Schlesinger for Midnight Cowboy (Hellman-Schlesinger, UA).

Best Actor

Richard Burton in Anne of a Thousand Days (Wallis, Universal).

Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Hellman-Schlesinger, UA).

Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Apjac, MGM).

Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (Hellman-Schlesinger, UA).

John Wayne in True Grit (Wallis, Paramount).

Best Actress 

Genevieve Bujold in Anne of a Thousand Days (Wallis, Universal).

Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama).

Liza Minnelli in The Sterile Cuckoo (Boardwalk, Paramount).

Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending (Pax Films, UA).

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (20th Century-Fox).

Best Supporting Actor

Rupert Crosse in The Reivers (Ravetch-Kramer-Solar, Cinema Center, National General). 

Elliott Gould in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Frankovich, Columbia).

Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider (Pando-Raybert, Columbia).

Anthony Quayle in Anne of a Thousand Days (Wallis, Universal).

Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama).

Best Supporting Actress

Catherine Burns in Last Summer (Perry-Alsid, Allied Artists).

Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Frankovich, Columbia).

Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower (Frankovich, Columbia).

Sylvia Miles in Midnight Cowboy (Hellman-Schlesinger, UA).

Susannah York in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama).

Best Adapted Screenplay 

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. John Hale, Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove.

Goodbye, Columbus, Willow Tree, Paramount. Arnold Schulman.

Midnight Cowboy, Hellman-Schlesinger, UA. Waldo Salt.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. James Poe and Robert E. Thompson.

Z, Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V (Algerian). Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras.

Best Original Screenplay

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Frankovich, Columbia. Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox. William Goldman.

The Damned, Pegaso-Praesidens, Warner Bros. Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti. 

Easy Rider, Pando-Raybert, Columbia. Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern.

The Wild Bunch, Feldman, Warner Bros. Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner and Sam Peckinpah. 

Best Cinematography 

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. Arthur Ibbetson.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Frankovich, Columbia. Charles B. Lang.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox. Conrad Hall.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. Harry Stradling.

Marooned, Frankovich-Sturges, Columbia. Daniel Fapp.

Best Song

"Come Saturday Morning" (The Sterile Cuckoo, Boardwalk, Paramount); Music by Fred Karlin. Lyrics by Dory Previn.

"Jean" (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 20th Century-Fox); Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Burt Bacharach. Lyrics by Hal David. 

"True Grit" (True Grit, Wallis, Paramount); Music by Elmer Bernstein. Lyrics by Don Black

"What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (The Happy Ending, Pax Films, UA); Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Best Original Score for a Motion Picture [Not a Musical]

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. Georges Delerue

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox. Burt Bacharach.

The Reivers, Ravetch-Kramer-Solar, Cinema Center, National General. John Williams

The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Kramer, UA. Ernest Gold.

The Wild Bunch, Feldman, Warner Bros. Jerry Fielding.

Best Scoring of a Musical Picture [Original or Adaptation]

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Apjac, MGM. Leslie Bricusse and John Williams.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman.

Paint Your Wagon, Lerner, Paramount. Nelson Riddle.

Sweet Charity, Universal. Cy Coleman.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. John Green and Albert Woodbury.

Best Sound

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. John Aldred.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hill-Monash, 20th Century-Fox. William Edmundson and David Dockendorf.

Gaily, Gaily, Mirisch-Cartier, UA. Robert Martin and Clem Portman.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack. 

Marooned, Frankovich-Sturges, Columbia. Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi.

Film Editing

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. William Reynolds.

Midnight Cowboy, Hellman-Schlesinger, UA.  Hugh A. Robertson. 

The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Kramer, UA. William Lyon and Earle Herdan.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. Fredric Steinkamp.

Z, Reggane Films-O.N.C.I.C., Cinema V (Algerian). Francoise Bonnot.

Best Foreign Language Film

Adalen '31 (Sweden).

The Battle of Neretva (Yugoslavia).

The Brothers Karamazov (U.S.S.R.).

My Night with Maud (France).

Z (Algeria).

Best Art Direction-Set Direction 

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. Maurice Carter and Lionel Couch; Patrick McLoughlin.

Gaily, Gaily, Mirisch-Cartier, UA. Robert Boyle and George B. Chan; Edward Boyle and Carl Biddiscombe.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith and Herman Blumenthal; Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins and Raphael Bretton.

Sweet Charity, Universal. Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb; Jack D. Moore.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. Harry Horner; Frank McKelvy.

Best Costume Design 

Anne of a Thousand Days, Wallis, Universal. Margaret Furse. 

Gaily, Gaily, Mirisch-Cartier, UA. Ray Aghayan.

Hello, Dolly! Chenault, 20th Century-Fox. Irene Sharaff.

Sweet Charity, Universal. Edith Head.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Chartoff-Winkler-Pollack, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. Donfeld.

Special Visual Effects

Krakatoa, East of Java, ABC Pictures, Cinerama. Eugene Lourie and Alex Weldon.

Marooned, Frankovich-Sturges, Columbia. Robbie Robertson. 

Best Short Subject Cartoon

It's Tough to Be a Bird, Disney, Buena Vista. Ward Kimball, producer.

Of Men and Demons, Hubley Studios, Paramount. John and Faith Hubley, producers. 

Walking, National Film Board of Canada, Columbia. Ryan Larkin, producer. 

Best Live Action Short Subject

Blake, National Film Board of Canada, Vaudeo Inc. Doug Jackson, producer.

The Magic Machines, Fly-By-Night Prods., Manson Distributing. Joan Keller Stern, producer.

People Soup, Pangloss Prods., Columbia. Marc Merson, producer. 

Best Documentary Short Subject

Czechoslovakia 1968, Sanders-Fresco Film Makers for U.S. Information Agency. Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, producers.

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer, Donald Wrye Prods. for U.S. Information Agency. Donald Wrye, producer.

Jenny Is a Good Thing, A.C.I. Prod. for Project Head Start. Joan Horvath, producer.

Leo Beuerman, Centron Prod. Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser, producers.

The Magic Machines, Fly-By-Night Prods., Manson Distributing. Joan Keller Stern, producer.

Best Documentary Feature

Arthur Rubinstein- the Love of Life, Midem Prod. Bernard Chevry, producer.

Before the Mountain Was Moved, Robert K. Sharpe Prods. for the Office of Economic Opportunity. Robert K. Sharpe, producer.

In the Year of the Pig, Emile de Antonio Prod. Emile de Antonio, producer.

The Olympics in Mexico, Film Section of the Organizing Committee for the XIX Olympic Games.

The Wolf Men, MGM. Irwin Rosten, producer. 

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Not given this year.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

George Jessel.

Honorary Awards

Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues (statuette).

Scientific or Technical Awards

Class I (Statuette)

None.

Class II (Plaque)

Hazeltine Corporation for the design and development of the Hazeltine Color Film Analyzer.

Fouad Said for the design and introduction of the Cinemobile series of equipment trucks for location motion picture productions. 

Juan de la Cierva and Dynascienes Corporation for the design and development of the Dynalens optical image motion compensator. 

Class III (Citation)

Otto Popelka of Magna-Tech Electronics Co., Inc., for the development of an Electronically Controlled Looping System.

Fenton Hamilton of MGM Studio for the concept and engineering of a mobile battery power unit for location lighting.

Panavision Incorporated for the design and development of the Panaspeed Motion Picture Camera Motor.

Robert M. Flynn and Russell Hessy of Universal City Studios, Inc., for a machine-gun modification for motion picture photography. 

The 1969 British Academy Awards 

Best Film 

Oh! What a Lovely War- Richard Attenborough

Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger

Women in Love- Ken Russell

Z- Costa-Gavras

Best Direction

Richard Attenborough- Oh! What a Lovely War

Ken Russell- Women in Love

John Schlesinger- Midnight Cowboy

Peter Yates - Bullitt (1968)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Alan Bates in Women in Love

Dustin Hoffman in John and Mary and Midnight Cowboy

Walter Matthau in Hello, Dolly! and The Secret Life of an American Wife

Nicol Williamson in Oh! What a Lovely War

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Mia Farrow in John and Mary, Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Secret Ceremony (1968)

Glenda Jackson in Women in Love

Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly!

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Klugman in Goodbye, Columbus

Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider

Laurence Olivier in Oh! What a Lovely War

Robert Vaughan in Bullitt (1968)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Peggy Ashcroft in Two Into Three Won't Go

Pamela Franklin in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Celia Johnson in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Mary Wimbush in Oh! What a Lovely War

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Kim Darby in True Grit

Jennie Linden in Women in Love

Ali McGraw in Goodbye, Columbus

Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy

Best Screenplay 

Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprun for Z

Larry Kramer for Women in Love

Waldo Salt for Midnight Cowboy

Arnold Schulman for Goodbye, Columbus

Best Cinematography 
William A. Fraker for Bullitt (1968)

Harry Stradling for Funny Girl (1968)

Harry Stradling for Hello, Dolly!

Gerry Turpin for Oh! What a Lovely War

Billy Williams for The Magus (1968)

Billy Williams for Women in Love

Best Editing

Francoise Bonnot for Z

Kevin Connor for Oh! What a Lovely War

Frank P. Keller for Bullitt (1968)

Hugh A. Robertson for Midnight Cowboy

Best Costume Design 

Anthony Mendleson for Oh! What a Lovely War

Ruth Myers for Isadora (1968)

Shirley Ann Russell for Women in Love

Irene Sharaff for Funny Girl (1968)

Best Original Music

Richard Rodney Bennett for Secret Ceremony (1968)

Georges Delerue for Women in Love

Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Mikis Theodorakis for Z

Best Production Design

Luciana Arrighi for Women in Love

Donald M. Ashton for Oh! What a Lovely War

Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov for War and Peace (1966-67)

John DeCuir for Hello, Dolly!

Best Sound

Don Challis and Simon Kaye for Oh! What a Lovely War

Ted Mason and Jim Shields for Battle of Britain

Terry Rawlings for Isadora (1968)

Terry Rawlings for Women in Love

Edwin Scheid for Bullitt (1968)

Robert Flaherty Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary

Prologue- National Film Board of Canada

Best Specialised Film

The Behaviour Game- Ronald Spencer

Isotopes in Action- Ken McCready

Let There Be Light- Peter De Normanville

Mullardability- Rene Basilico

Best Short Animation

Barbican- Robin Contelon

Birthday- Franc Roddam

Picture to Post- Sarah Erulkar

A Test of Violence- Stuart Cooper

United Nations Award

Adalen 31- Bo Widerberg

Midnight Cowboy- John Schlesinger

Oh! What a Lovely War- Richard Attenborough

Z- Costa-Gavras

Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film:

If (Lindsay Anderson, England- 1968) 

Best Director:

Glauber Rocha, Antonio Das Mortes

Vojtech Jasny, My Dear

Best Actor:

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Z

Best Actress:

Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora (1968)

Special Jury Award:

Adalen 31, Bo Widerberg

International Critics Award:

Andrei Roubloy (USSR)

Best First Film:

Easy Rider, Dennis Hooper

Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Best Film: First Prize:

Early Years (Zelimir Zilnik, Yugoslavia)

Best Film: Second Prize:

Brazil Year 2000 (Lima, Brazil)

Made in Sweden (Bergenstrahle, Sweden)

I am a Elephant, Madame (Zadek, Germany)

Greetings (Brian De Palma, USA)

A Quiet Place in the Country (Petri, Italy)

Venice Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

No awards.

Director's Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on February14, 1970, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York). Winner listed in bold print. Finalists mentioned in parenthesis. 

Best Director

Richard Attenborough, Oh! What a Lovely War

Costa-Gavras, Z (finalist)

George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (finalist)

Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider (finalist)

Gene Kelly, Hello, Dolly!

Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch

Larry Peerce, Goodbye, Columbus

Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (finalist)

John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy

Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool

Writers Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on March 13, 1970, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles). Winners listed in bold. 

Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, William Goldman

Alice's Restaurant, Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn

Downhill Racer, James Salter

Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hooper, Terry Southern

Me, Natalie, A. Martin Zweiback, story by Stanley Shapiro and A. Martin Zweiback

Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium

Anne of a Thousand Days, John Hale and Bridget Boland, adaptation by Richard Sokolove, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson

Midnight Cowboy, Waldo Salt, based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Jay Presson Allen, based on his play and the novel by Muriel Spark

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? James Poe, Robert E. Thompson, based on the novel by Horace McCoy

True Grit, Marguerite Roberts, based on the novel by Charles Portis

Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, David Shaw

Popi, Tina Pine, Lester Pine

Support Your Local Sheriff, William Bowers

Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen

Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium

Cactus Flower, I.A.L. Diamond, based on the play by Abe Burrows and the play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy

Gaily, Gaily, Abram S. Ginnes, based on the novel by Ben Hecht

Goodbye Columbus, Arnold Schulman, based on the novel by Philip roth

John and Mary, John Mortimer, based on the novel by Mervyn Jones

The Reivers, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr., based on the novel by William Faulkner

Laurel Award

Dalton Trumbo

Valentine Davies Award

Richard Murphy

Morgan Cox Award

Barry Trivers

The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in alphabetical order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Alice's Restaurant

The Damned

If. . . . (1968)

La Femme Infidele

Midnight Cowboy

Stolen Kisses (1968)

Topaz

True Grit

The Wild Bunch

Z

Time magazine's Top of the Decade (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Godard's Breathless and Fellini's La Dolce Vita open in the U.S., 1961

Dr. No is released, starting the James Bondwagon, 1963 (1963 U.S. release of 1962 film)

A Hard Day's Night brings the Beatles to the screen, 1964

Dr. Strangelove, 1964

The Sound of Music spawns endless expensive musicals, 1965

Bonnie and Clyde, 1967

The Graduate alerts filmmakers to the news that more than 60 percent of their audience is thrity or under, 1967

GMRX ratings being, 1968

Easy Rider establishes a trend toward the low-budget, personal movie, 1969

I Am Curious (Yellow) makes the X-rated, sex-sated movie a nationwide phenomenon, 1969 (1969 U.S. release of 1967 film)

The Top Box-Office Hits of 1969 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1968 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1969 are included. Source: Variety, January 7, 1970)

1) The Love Bug- $17,000,000

2) Funny Girl (1968)- $16,500,000 (also placed at #28 on the 1968 list, with $3,700,000 in rentals)

3) Bullitt (1968)- $16,400,000

4) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid- $15,000,000

5) Romeo and Juliet (1968)- $14,500,000

6) True Grit- $11,500,000

7) Midnight Cowboy- $11,000,000

8) Oliver! (1968)- $10,500,000

    Goodbye, Columbus- $10,500,000

10) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)- $7,500,000

11) Easy Rider- $7,200,000

12) I Am Curious (Yellow)- $6,600,000

13) Where Eagles Dare- $6,560,000

14) The Lion in Winter (1968)- $6,400,000

      Swiss Family Robinson (1960- reissue)- $6,400,000

16) Winning- $6,200,000

17) The Impossible Years (1968)- $5,800,000

18) Three in the Attic (1968)- $5,200,000

19) Finian's Rainbow (1968)- $5,100,000

20) Support Your Local Sheriff- $5,000,000

21)  The April Fools- $4,500,000

       The Undefeated- $4,500,000

23) The Wild Bunch- $4,200,000

      Star! (1968)- $4,200,000 (also placed at #73 on the 1968 list, with $1,300,000)

25) The Arrangement- $4,000,000 

26) Hellfighters (1968)- $3,750,000

27) Alice's Restaurant- $3,500,000

      100 Rifles- $3,500,000

29) Peter Pan (1953- reissue)- $3,300,000

      The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)- $3,300,000

31) Mackenna's Gold- $3,100,000

32) Secret Ceremony (1968)- $3,000,000

      The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)- $3,000,000

      The Yellow Submarine (1968)- $3,000,000

      If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium- $3,000,000

      Last Summer- $3,000,000

37) Daddy's Gone A-Hunting- $2,900,000

38) The Stalking Moon- $2,600,000

39) Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell- $2,500,000

      Che!- $2,500,000

      The Chairman- $2,500,000

42) The Wrecking Crew- $2,400,000

43) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959- reissue)- $2,300,000

      If. . . . (1968)- $2,300,000

45) Paint Your Wagon- $2,200,000

      Justine- $2,200,000

47) Once Upon a Time in the West  (1968)- $2,100,000

      Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?- $2,100,000

49) Popi- $2,000,000

      The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- $2,000,000

      The Battle of Britain- $2,000,000

      Rascal- $2,000,000

      My Side of the Mountain- $2,000,000

      The Sterile Cuckoo- $2,000,000

55) Me, Natalie- $1,900,000

56) Staircase- $1,850,000

      The Lost Man- $1,850,000

58) Inga- $1,800,000

      Angel in My Pocket- $1,800,000

     Castle Keep- $1,800,000

     The Parent Trap (1961- reissue)- $1,800,000

62) Helga (1967)- $1,795,000

63) Salt and Pepper (1968)- $1,750,000

      Hard Contract- $1,750,000

65) Paper Lion (1968)- $1,700,000

66) The Bridge at Remagen- $1,600,000

67) The Great Bank Robbery- $1,500,000

      The Learning Tree- $1,500,000

      Charro!- $1,500,000

70) The Subject was Roses (1968)- $1,375,000

71) Return of the Seven (1966- reissue)- $1,300,000

      Smith- $1,300,000

\     Riot- $1,300,000

74) Joanna (1968)- $1,250,000

      The Loves of Isadora (1968)- $1,250,000

76) A Fistful of Dollars (1964- reissue)- $1,200,000

      Fanny Hill- $1,200,000

      The Sergeant (1968)- $1,200,000

      Eye of the Cat- $1,200,000

80) Hell's Angels 69- $1,199,000

81) Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies- $1,125,000

82) The Conqueror Worm (1968)- $1,101,000 (placed at #60 on 1968's list with $1,500,000)

83) Sweet Charity- $1,100,000

84) The Savage Seven (1968- reissue)- $1,095,000 (placed at #60 on 1968's list with $1,500,000)

85) Angels From Hell (1968- reissue)- $1,085,000 (placed at #74 on 1968's list with $1,250,000)

86) The Oblong Box- $1,020,000

87) The Magnus (1968)- $1,000,000

      The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)- $1,000,000

      Number One- $1,000,000

      Medium Cool- $1,000,000

The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1969 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Paul Newman
2) John Wayne
3) Steve McQueen
4) Dustin Hoffman
5) Clint Eastwood
6) Sidney Poitier
7) Lee Marvin
8) Jack Lemmon
9) Katharine Hepburn
10) Barbra Streisand

The Next Eighteen:
11) Dean Martin
12) Joanne Woodward
13) Walter Matthau
14) Richard Burton
15) Raquel Welch
16) Jane Fonda
17) Elizabeth Taylor
18) Peter Fonda
19) Julie Andrews
20) Faye Dunaway
21) Mia Farrow
22) Elvis Presley
23) Sandy Dennis
24) Warren Beatty
25) James Garner
26) Vanessa Redgrave
27) Anthony Quinn

28) Liza Minnelli

1969's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Jon Voight

2) Kim Darby

3) Glenn Campbell

4) Richard Benjamin

5) Mark Lester

6) Olivia Hussey

7) Leonard Whiting

8) Ali MacGraw

9) Barbara Hershey

10) Alan Alda

Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)

Ten Worst Movies:

Easy Rider

Medium Cool

Putney Swope

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Topaz

The Maltese Bippy

True Grit

John and Mary

Hello Dolly!

Last Summer

The Kirk Douglas Award to Worst Actor:

Peter Fonda, Easy Rider

Natalie Wood Award to Worst Actress:

Jane Fonda, Spirits of the Dead, and for staying married to Roger Vadim

Worst Supporting Actor:

Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider

Worst Supporting Actress:

Mia Farrow, Secret Ceremony (1968)

The Ok-Doc-Break-the-Arm-Again Award:

(to the most flagrant example of miscasting)

Omar Sharif for his west-of-center title role in Che!

The Hey-Jack-Which-Way-to-Mecca Award:

(for the worst direction)

Jean-Luc Godard, Sympathy for the Devil)

The Uncrossed Heart:

(to the least promising young performer)

Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower

The Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again Award:

(for that film which best embodies pretentious extravagance and blundering ineffectiveness of the traditional Screen Spectacular)

Hello, Dolly!

The Piltdown Mandible:

(to the most obviously and unabashedly spurious scientific phenomena)

Krakatoa, East of Java, since Krakatoa, by all recent accounts, is a good two hundred miles west of Java

The Sentimental Mushmelon:

(to the film that best reminds us of that true Poignancy, that bitter Sweetness, which we know as Life)

The Reivers, a sledgehammer-on-a-marshmallow rendition of a squishy Faulkner novel

The Cheap-at-Half-the-Price Award:

Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run

The OhGodohGod, the Lights, the Shapes, the Colors Award:

(to that movie which makes us glad we have lungs to inhale with)

The revival of Walt Disney's Fantasia

The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch:

(to that Hollywood personality who offers the lamest justification for unsavory behavior)

President Richard Nixon, who screened the film Marooned, an epic of three spacemen lost in the great beyond, for apprehensive astronauts Armstrong, Collins and Young at a White House Kultur-fest

The Beast of Buchenwald Award:

(to those actors who must thoroughly degrade themselves in order to pull in the paycheck, this handsomely tooled lampshade is awarded) 

The entire cast of Visconti's horror show, The Damned

The Great Ceremonial Hot Dog:

(for the worst scenes of the cinema season)

Peter Fonda's I-love-you-I-hate-you acid trip in a New Orleans cemetery in Easy Rider

The Arrested-Development Oblation:

(to that adult actor who has displayed the lowest level of maturity)

Always given to Jerry Lewis who, in spite of making no films this year, has managed to perpetuate the infantile tradition by his inimitable Cerebral Palsy telethons

The Ayn Rand Award:

(for that writer whose bad books made worse movies)

Petronius, who should have known better, for Satyricon

The Exhausted Udder:

(presented by the Dairy Farmers Assn., in recognition of the attempts to milk every penny possible from a marketable idea)

Anyone who had anything to do with what we hope is the last James Bond film ever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Tin Pan:

(to the most obnoxious movie song)

Rod McKuen's "Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Marquis De Sade Memorial Whip:

Raquel Welch in The Magic Christian, for a leather-and-chains performance which rivals Attila the Hun

The Dance of the Seven Scott Tissues Award:

(to the most lewd and completely unwarranted dancing scene)

To the f-- ball in Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys

The Most Unnecessary Contribution to the American Way of Life:

To the hippest people we know, the cool and groovy stars of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

The Guess-Who's-Stepping-Out-to-Tommy's-Lunch Award:

(presented to that scene in a movie which makes us guess we'll step out to Tommy's lunch)

The blow job in the movie balcony of Midnight Cowboy

The Do-You-Know-the-Way-to-San-Jose Award:

(to that film which took the wrong turn on the Los Angeles freeway while shooting on the studio lot and ended up in the least likely location)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for its Bolivian sequences

The Strongest Argument for Laxer Divorce Laws:

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward for Winning, a loser

The Dr. Christiaan Barnard Award:

(to that movie which shows the worst job of cutting)

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin's The Maltese Bippy

The Bratwurst Award:

(to the most obnoxious child star)

The entire cast of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie which made us wish we were back at St. Paul's

The Elsa Maxwell Kudo:

(for the most unattractive social event)

To the singles bar scenes in John and Mary

The Best Argument for Reactivating Ellis Island:

To the entire country of Sweden, for bringing us such screaming turkeys as Without a Stitch; Woman is a Female Animal and I, a Man

The Twenty-Cent Token:

(to that film which does the most fashionable injustice to a minority class)

Putney Swope

The Thanks-for-Nothing Award:

(given to that Hollywood performer who has blessedly not made a motion picture this year)

Doris Day, who has saved us from guessing once again how it is that she will remain a post-menopausal virgin

The Wilde Oscar:

(to that performer who has been willing to flout convention and risk worldly reputation in order to pursue artistic fulfillment)

Dustin Hoffman for playing a consumptive Italian hunchback in Midnight Cowboy

The H.J. Heinz Laurel Wreath:

(to that film that makes most extensive use of the company's various vegetable derivatives)

The Battle of Britian

The Wrong-Way Corrigan Memorial Flight Jacket:

(to the one line in a film which does more to distort the course of history than Lyndon Johnson's interviews with Walter Cronkite)

Given, with apologies to the American Barbers Assn., to the Virgin Mary in Bunuel's The Milky Way for her line, "Jesus, don't cut off your beard; you look handsome with it."

The Harvard Independent Award:

(to that film noted for its ignominious failure as both art and politics)

Medium Cool

The Curse-of-the-Living-Corpse Award:

A fully-paid burial insurance policy presented by the American Morticians Assn. as inducement to a speedy interment, the award this year goes to Mae West, who is going to do it again in Myra Breckenridge (1970)

The It-Can't-Happen-Here Award:

(presented to that film that shot a sequence which is geographically closest to The Lampoon Castle)

Goodbye, Columbus for a scene in which Ali MacGraw, an unconvincing "Cliffie," ambles down the steps of romantic Widener Library

The Babar Boo-Boo:

(to those movies which do most for the cause of bestiality)

Futz! and The End of the Road, two movies which were especially illuminating on the possibilities of doing it with pigs and chickens

The Hey-Boswell-Did-You-Get-That-One-Down Award:

(to that film whose dialogue was, when not monosyllabic, subhuman)

Easy Rider, for doing its own thing in its own time

The Charles Manson Memorial Scalpel:

Awarded without comment to the gallant army doctors in M*A*S*H (1970)

The Bosley:

(to that film critic who has done most to perpetuate the cult of kitsch)

Judith Crist, whose taste buds died in 1952

The Black-and-White-and-Red-All-Over Award:

(to that movie which has done the most to eliminate shades of grey)

The entire cast of Z

The Best Argument for Stricter Immigration Laws:

Ingrid Bergman, who changed the course of her career by her prickly performance in Cactus Flower

The Brass Brassiere:

(given to that man who, in the tradition of Hugh Hefner and Harold Robbins, has done most to advance the cause of male chauvinism)

Allen Funt for his epic of women's lib, What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?

The Best Argument for Keeping R.O.T.C. on Campus:

Awarded with much apprehension to this year's most courageous war movie, Patton (1970)

The Doctor-Down Award:

(to that movie which would most likely cause a bummer trip)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Best Argument for Vivisection:

The Wild Bunch, which was as graphic as it was unappetizing

The On-a-Clear-Day-You-Can-See-Fall-River Citation:

(for the most stereotyped New England scenery)

Alice's Restaurant, whose Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was just like Life magazine said it would be

The Merino Award:

In 1960 this one-quarter scale Corfam mounted sheep went to Maureen O'Hara; in 1961 to Rita Moreno; in 1962 to Maureen O'Sullivan; in 1963 to Italian director Dario Moreno; in 1964 to marino-phile Jacques-Yves Cousteau; in 1965 to Merina Mercouri; in 1966 to the two merinos on board the Ark in The Bible; in 1967 to the Pushme-Pullyou in Doctor Dolittle, a distant cousin to the merinos; in 1968 to the cast of The Green Berets, which included only one black Marine; and in 1969, to the accompaniment of dull thuds produced by beating a dead sheep, the Merino Award goes to Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, which was filmed entirely in lurid aqua-merino

The Ros(s)coe Award:

(to that performer who displays a certain unskilled, clumsy quality)

Katharine Ross, for her forgettable performances in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid