Film Data For 1968
Film Daily's Ten Best of 1968
1) The Lion in Winter
2) Rosemary's Baby
3) Rachel, Rachel
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5) The Odd Couple
6) Romeo & Juliet
7) Oliver!
8) The Subject was Roses
9) Funny Girl
10) Bullitt
The Honor Role
11) In Cold Blood (placed #30 on the 1967 poll)
12) Yellow Submarine
13) The Shoes of the Fisherman
14) The Planet of the Apes
15) Charley
16) Faces
17) The Two of Us
18) Petulia
19) The Boston Strangler
20) Belle de Jour
21) The Fox
22) Will Penny
23) Yours, Mine and Ours
24) War and Peace
25) Star!
26) Finian's Rainbow
27) Hot Millions
28) The Fixer
29) The Thomas Crown Affair
30) For Love of Ivy
31) Pretty Poison
Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter
2) Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple
3) Steve McQueen in Bullitt
4) Cliff Robertson in Charley
5) Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel
2) Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter
3) Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
4) Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
5) Patricia Neal in The Subject was Roses
Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Sidney Blackmer in Rosemary's Baby
2) Daniel Massey in Star!
3) Seymour Cassel in Faces
4) Chuck McCann in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
5) Jack Albertson in The Subject was Roses
Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
2) Estelle Parsons in Rachel, Rachel
3) Billie Whitelaw in Charlie Bubbles
4) Maggie Smith in Hot Millions
5) Pat Heywood in Romeo & Juliet
Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) Alain Cohen in The Two of Us
2) Leonard Whiting in Romeo & Juliet
3) Jack Wild in Oliver!
4) Mark Lester in Oliver!
5) Beau Bridges in For Love of Ivy
Bets Performances by Juvenile Actresses
1) Olivia Hussey in Romeo & Juliet
2) Sondra Locke in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
3) Debbie Smith in The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band
4) Heather Ripley in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
5) Nell Potts in Rachel, Rachel
Pamela Ferdin in The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band
Janet Landgard in The Swimmer
Finds of the Year
1) Sondra Locke in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
2) Anne Heywood in The Fox
3) Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
4) Olivia Hussey in Romeo & Juliet
5) Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
The Year's Outstanding Directors
1) Paul Newman for Rachel, Rachel
2) Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter
3) Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) Franco Zeffirelli for Romeo & Juliet
5) Carol Reed for Oliver!
Best Screenplays of the Year
1) James Goldman for The Lion in Winter
2) Stewart Stern for Rachel, Rachel
3) Neil Simon for The Odd Couple
4) Roman Polanski for Rosemary's Baby
5) Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Best Photographed Pictures
1) Geoffrey Unsworth for 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) William A. Frakes for Bullitt
3) Pasquale de Santis for Romeo & Juliet
4) Oswald Morris for Oliver!
Best Film
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Trevor Howard in The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Dustin Hoffman
1) The Lion in Winter
2) Rosemary's Baby
3) Rachel, Rachel
4) 2001: A Space Odyssey
5) The Odd Couple
6) Romeo & Juliet
7) Oliver!
8) The Subject was Roses
9) Funny Girl
10) Bullitt
11) In Cold Blood (placed #30 on the 1967 poll)
12) Yellow Submarine
13) The Shoes of the Fisherman
14) The Planet of the Apes
15) Charley
16) Faces
17) The Two of Us
18) Petulia
19) The Boston Strangler
20) Belle de Jour
21) The Fox
22) Will Penny
23) Yours, Mine and Ours
24) War and Peace
25) Star!
26) Finian's Rainbow
27) Hot Millions
28) The Fixer
29) The Thomas Crown Affair
30) For Love of Ivy
31) Pretty Poison
Best Performances by Male Stars
1) Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter
2) Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple
3) Steve McQueen in Bullitt
4) Cliff Robertson in Charley
5) Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Best Performances by Female Stars
1) Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel
2) Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter
3) Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
4) Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
5) Patricia Neal in The Subject was Roses
Best Performances by Supporting Actors
1) Sidney Blackmer in Rosemary's Baby
2) Daniel Massey in Star!
3) Seymour Cassel in Faces
4) Chuck McCann in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
5) Jack Albertson in The Subject was Roses
Best Performances by Supporting Actresses
1) Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
2) Estelle Parsons in Rachel, Rachel
3) Billie Whitelaw in Charlie Bubbles
4) Maggie Smith in Hot Millions
5) Pat Heywood in Romeo & Juliet
Best Performances by Juvenile Actors
1) Alain Cohen in The Two of Us
2) Leonard Whiting in Romeo & Juliet
3) Jack Wild in Oliver!
4) Mark Lester in Oliver!
5) Beau Bridges in For Love of Ivy
1) Olivia Hussey in Romeo & Juliet
2) Sondra Locke in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
3) Debbie Smith in The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band
4) Heather Ripley in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
5) Nell Potts in Rachel, Rachel
Pamela Ferdin in The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band
Janet Landgard in The Swimmer
Finds of the Year
1) Sondra Locke in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
2) Anne Heywood in The Fox
3) Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
4) Olivia Hussey in Romeo & Juliet
5) Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
The Year's Outstanding Directors
1) Paul Newman for Rachel, Rachel
2) Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter
3) Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey
4) Franco Zeffirelli for Romeo & Juliet
5) Carol Reed for Oliver!
Best Screenplays of the Year
1) James Goldman for The Lion in Winter
2) Stewart Stern for Rachel, Rachel
3) Neil Simon for The Odd Couple
4) Roman Polanski for Rosemary's Baby
5) Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Best Photographed Pictures
1) Geoffrey Unsworth for 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) William A. Frakes for Bullitt
3) Pasquale de Santis for Romeo & Juliet
4) Oswald Morris for Oliver!
5) Douglas Slocombe for The Lion in Winter
Best Original Songs
1) "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair- Lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman; Music by Michel Legrand
2) "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"- Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
3) "Star!"- Lyrics and Music by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
4) "For Love of Ivy"- Lyrics by Bob Russell; Music by Quincy Jones
5) "The Lonely Rider" from Will Penny- Lyrics by Robert Wells; Music by David Raskin
Best Musical Scores
1) John Green for Oliver!
2) Walter Scharf, Jules Styne and Bob Merrill for Funny Girl
3) The Beatles for Yellow Submarine
4) Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy for Finian's Rainbow
5) Orchestrations and compositions selected by Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey
New York Film Critics Awards (Winners announced on December 30, 1968. Awards presented on January 26, 1969 at the Rainbow Room in New York. Sources: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001 and Donald Lyons, "The Lights of New York," Film Comment, March-April, 1993).
Best Picture:
Best Picture:
The Lion in Winter (13 votes on ballot VI)
Runner Up: Faces (11 votes)
Best Director:
Paul Newman for Rachel, Rachel (11 votes on ballot VI)
Runner Up: John Cassavetes for Faces (9 votes)
Best Actor:
Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Runner Up: George C. Scott for Petulia
Best Actress:
Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel (18 votes)
Runner Up: Tuesday Weld in Pretty Poison (5 votes)
Best Screenplay:
Lorenzo Semple, Jr., Pretty Poison
Best Foreign Film:
War and Peace (U.S.S.R.)
Special Award:
Yellow Submarine (for full-length animation)
National Board of Review (Winners were announced on January 5, 1969. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001)
Best Picture
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Rest of the top ten (in order of preference)
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Submarine
Charly
Rachel, Rachel
The Subject was Roses
The Lion in Winter
Planet of the Apes
Olivier!
2001: A Space Odyssey
Best Director
Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet
Best Actor
Cliff Robertson, Charly
Best Actress
Liv Ullmann, Hour of the Wolf, Shame
Best Supporting Actor
Leo McKern, The Shoes of the Fisherman
Best Supporting Actress
Virginia Maskell, Interlude
Best Foreign Film
War and Peace (U.S.S.R.)
Runners-up (in order of preference)
The Bride Wore Black (France/Italy)
Hagbard and Signo (Denmark/Iceland/Sweden)
Hunger (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
The Two of Us (France)
National Society of Film Critics (Winners announced on January 6, 1969, at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001).
Best Picture
Shame
Best Director
Ingmar Bergman, Shame, Hour of the Wolf
Best Actor
Per Oscarsson, Hunger
Best Actress
Liv Ullmann, Shame
Best Supporting Actor
Seymour Cassel, Faces
Best Supporting Actress
Billie Whitelaw, Charlie Bubbles
Best Screenplay
John Cassavetes, Faces
Best Cinematography
William A. Fraker, Bullitt
Special Awards
(Feature-Length Documentary)
Eugene S. Jones, A Face of War and
Allan King, Warrendale (tie)
(Feature-Length Animation)
Yellow Submarine
The Golden Globes (Awards were presented on February 24, 1969, 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
Best Drama Picture
Charly
The Fixer
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Lion in Winter
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Best Comedy or Musical Picture
Finian's Rainbow
Funny Girl
The Odd Couple
Oliver!
Yours, Mine and Ours
Best Director
Anthony Harvey, The Lion in Winter
Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel
Carol Reed, Oliver!
William Wyler, Funny Girl
Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet
Best Actor, Drama
Alan Arkin, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Alan Bates, The Fixer
Tony Curtis, The Boston Strangler
Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter
Cliff Robertson, Charly
Best Actress, Drama
Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby
Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter
Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora
Beryl Reid, The Killing of Sister George
Joanne Woodward, Rachel, Rachel
Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Fred Astaire, Finian's Rainbow
Jack Lemmon, The Odd Couple
Walter Matthau, The Odd Couple
Ron Moody, Oliver!
Zero Mostel, The Producers
Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Julie Andrews in Star!
Lucille Ball, Yours, Mine and Ours
Petula Clark, Finian's Rainbow
Gina Lollobrigida, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Barbara Streisand, Funny Girl
Best Supporting Actor
Beau Bridges, For Love of Ivy
Ossie Davis, The Scalphunters
Hugh Griffith, The Fixer
Hugh Griffith, Oliver!
Daniel Massey, Star!
Martin Sheen, The Subject was Roses
Best Supporting Actress
Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby
Barbara Hancock, Finian's Rainbow
Abbey Lincoln, For Love of Ivy
Sondra Locke, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Jane Merrow, The Lion in Winter
Best Original Song
"Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell," from Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. Music by Riz Ortolani. Lyrics by Melvin Frank.
"Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang" from Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang. Music and Lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman.
"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.
"The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair. Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Best Original Score
Alex North for The Shoes of the Fisherman
Best Screenplay
Mel Brooks, The Producers
James Goldman, The Lion in Winter
Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
Stirling Silliphant, Charly
Dalton Trumbo, The Fixer
Most Promising Newcomer- Male
Alan Alda, Paper Lion
Daniel Massey, Star!
Michael Sarrazin, The Sweet Ride
Leonard Whiting, Romeo and Juliet
Jack Wild, Oliver!
Most Promising Newcomer- Female
Ewa Aulin, Candy
Jacqueline Bisset, The Sweet Ride
Barbara Hancock, Finian's Rainbow
Olivia Hussey, Romeo and Juliet
Sondra Locke, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Leigh Taylor-Young, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film
The Bride Wore Black (France)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Yugoslavia)
Shame (Sweden)
Stolen Kisses (France)
War and Peace (Russia)
Best English-Language Foreign Film
Benjamin
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Joanna
Poor Cow
Romeo and Juliet
World Film Favorites
Sophia Loren
Sidney Poitier
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Gregory Peck
Best Film
Closely Watched Trains (1966)- Jiri Menzel
The Graduate (1967)- Mike Nichols
Oliver!- Carol Reed
2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanley Kubrick
Best Direction
Lindsay Anderson- if. . .
Mike Nichols- The Gradute (1967)
Carol Reed- Oliver!
Franco Zeffirelli- Romeo and Juliet
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Trevor Howard in The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ron Moody in Oliver!
Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Nicol Williamson in The Bofors Gun
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Anne Bancroft in The Graduate
Anne Bancroft in The Graduate
Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour (1967)
Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter
Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ian Hom in The Bofors Gun
Anthony Hopkins in The Lion in Winter
John McEnery in Romeo and Juliet
George Segal in No Way to Treat a Lady
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Pat Heywood in Romeo and Juliet
Virginia Maskell in Interlude
Simone Signoret in Games
Billie Whitelaw in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Pia Degermark in Elvira Madigan
Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
Katharine Ross in The Graduate (1967)
Jack Wild in Oliver!
Best Screenplay
Calder Willingham and Buck Henry for The Graduate (1967)
Calder Willingham and Buck Henry for The Graduate (1967)
William Rose for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
David Sherwin for if. . .
James Goldman for The Lion in Winter
Best Cinematography
David Watkin for The Charge of the Light Brigade
David Watkin for The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jorgen Persson for Elvira Madigan
Douglas Slocombe for The Lion in Winter
Geoffrey Unsworth for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Best Editing
Kevin Brownlow for The Charge of the Light Brigade
Sam O'Steen for The Graduate (1967)
Ralph Kemplen for Oliver!
Reginald Mills for Romeo and Juliet
Best Costume Design
David Walker for The Charge of the Light Brigade
Margaret Furse for The Lion in Winter
Phyllis Dalton for Oliver!
Danilo Donati for Romeo and Juliet
Best Original Music
John Addison for The Charge of the Light Brigade
John Barry for The Lion in Winter
Francis Lai for Live for Life (1967)
Nino Rota for Romeo and Juliet
Best Production Design
Ted Marshall for The Charge of the Light Brigade
John Box for Oliver!
Lorenzo Mongiardino for Romeo and Juliet
Anthony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernest Archer for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Best Sound
Simon Kaye for The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jiri Pavlik for Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Chris Greenham and Simon Kaye for The Lion in Winter
John Cox and Bob Jones for Oliver!
Winston Ryder for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Robert Flaherty Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
In Need of Special Care- Jonathan Stedal
Inside North Vietnam- Felix Green
Music!- Michael Tuchner
A Plague on Your Children- Adrian Malone
Best Specialised Film
Carbon- Peter De Normanville
Genetics and Plant Breeding- David Morphet
The Kurer Anchor System- Eric Horrison
The Threat in the Water- Richard Bigham
Best Short Animation
The Hand- Jiri Trnka
The House That Jack Built- Ron Tunis
Pas de deux- Norman McLaren
The Question- John Halas
United Nations Award
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)- Stanley Kramer
In Need of Special Care- Jonathan Stedall
The Lion in Winter- Anthony Harvey
2001: A Space Odyssey- Stanley Kubrick
The Academy Awards (Nominations announced on February 24, 1969. Awards presented on April 14th 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 Score of a Musical [Original or Adaptation]
Best Picture
Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia. Produced by Ray Stark.
The Lion in Winter, Haworth, Avco Embassy. Produced by Martin Poll.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Produced by John Woolf.
Rachel, Rachel, Kayos, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Produced by Paul Newman.
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E.-Verona-De Laurentiis, Paramount. Produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne.
Best Director
Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter (Haworth, Avco Embassy).
Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey (Polaris, MGM).
Gillo Pontecorvo for The Battle of Algiers (Igor-Casbah, Allied Artists) (Italian).
Carol Reed for Oliver (Romulus, Columbia).
Franco Zeffirelli for Romeo and Juliet (B.H.E.-Verona-De Laurentiis, Paramount).
Best Actor
Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts).
Alan Bates in The Fixer (Frankenheimer-Lewis, MGM).
Ron Moody in Oliver (Romulus, Columbia).
Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter (Haworth, Avco Embassy).
Cliff Robertson in Charly (ABC-Selmur, Cinerama).
Best Actress (tie)
Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter (Haworth, Avco Embassy).
Patricia Neal in The Subject was Roses (MGM).
Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora (Hakim, Universal).
Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl (Rastar, Columbia).
Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel (Kayos, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts).
Best Supporting Actor
Jack Albertson in The Subject was Roses (MGM).
Seymour Cassel in Faces (Cassavetes, Reade-Continental).
Daniel Massey in Star! (Wise, 20th Century-Fox).
Jack Wild in Oliver! (Romulus, Columbia).
Gene Wilder in The Producers (Glazier, Avco Embassy).
Best Supporting Actress
Lynn Carlin in Faces (Cassavetes, Reade-Continental).
Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby (Castle, Paramount).
Sondra Locke in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts).
Kay Medford in Funny Girl (Rastar, Columbia).
Estelle Parsons in Rachel, Rachel (Kayos, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts).
Best Screenplay- Based on Material from Another Medium
The Lion in Winter, Haworth, Avco Embassy. James Goldman.
The Odd Couple, Koch, Paramount. Neil Simon.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Vernon Harris.
Rachel, Rachel, Kayos, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Stewart Stern.
Rosemary's Baby, Castle, Paramount. Roman Polanski.
Best Story and Screenplay- Written Directly for the Screen
The Battle of Algiers, Igor-Casbah, Allied Artists (Italian).
Faces, Cassavetes, Walter Reade-Continental. John Cassavetes.
Hot Millions, Albert, MGM. Ira Wallach and Peter Ustinov.
The Producers, Glazier, Avco Embassy. Mel Brooks.
2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris, MGM. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
Best Cinematography
Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia. Harry Stradling.
Ice Station Zebra, Filmways, MGM. Daniel L. Fapp.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Oswald Morris.
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E.-Verona-De Laurentiis, Paramount. Pasqualino De Santis.
Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Laszlo.
Best Art Direction-Set Direction
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. John Box and Terence Marsh; Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston.
The Shoes of the Fisherman, Englund, MGM. George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno.
Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox. Boris Leven; Walter M. Scott and Howard Bristol.
2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris, MGM. Tony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernie Archer.
War and Peace, Mosfilm, Reade-Continental (Russian). Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov; G. Koshelev and V. Uvarov.
Best Sound
Bullitt, Solar, Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts. Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept.
Finian's Rainbow, Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts. Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Dept.
Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia. Columbia Studio Sound Dept.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Shepperton Studio Sound Dept.
Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Dept.
Best Song
"Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang" (Chitty, Chitty, Bang Bang, Warfield, UA); Music and Lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman.
"For Love of Ivy" (For Love of Ivy, ABC-Palomar, Cinerama); Music by Quincy Jones. Lyrics by Bob Russell.
"Funny Girl" (Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia); Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merrill.
"Star!" (Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox); Music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
"The Windmills of Your Mind" (The Thomas Crown Affair, Mirisch-Simkoe -Solar, UA); Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Best Original Score for a Motion Picture [Not a Musical]
The Fox, Stross, Claridge Pictures. Lalo Schifrin.
The Lion in Winter, Haworth, Avco Embassy. John Barry.
Planet of the Apes, Apjac, 20th Century-Fox. Jerry Goldsmith.
The Shoes of the Fisherman, Englund, MGM. Alex North.
The Thomas Crown Affair, Mirisch-Simkoe-Solar, UA. Michel Legrand.
Finian's Rainbow, Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts. Ray Heindorf.
Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia. Walter Scharf.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. John Green.
Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox. Lennie Hayton.
The Young Girls of Rochefort, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (French). Michel Legrand and Jacques Demy.
Film Editing
Bullitt, Solar, Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts. Frank P. Keller.
Funny Girl, Rastar, Columbia. Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe and William Sands.
The Odd Couple, Koch, Paramount. Frank Bracht.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Ralph Kemplen.
Wild in the Streets, American International. Fred Feitshans and Eve Newman.
Best Costume Design
The Lion in Winter, Haworth, Avco Embassy. Margaret Furse.
Oliver!, Romulus, Columbia. Phyllis Dalton.
Planet of the Apes, Apjac, 20th Century-Fox. Morton Haack.
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E.-Verona-De Laurentiis, Paramount. Danilo Donati.
Star!, Wise, 20th Century-Fox. Donald Brooks.
Special Visual Effects
Ice Station Zebra, Filmways, MGM. Hal Millar and J. McMillan Johnson.
2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris, MGM. Stanley Kubrick.
Best Short Subject Cartoon
The House That Jack Built, National Film Board of Canada, Columbia. Wolf Koenig and Jim Mackay, producers.
The Magic Pear Tree, Bing Crosby Prods. Jimmy Murakami, producer.
Windy Day, Hubley Studios, Paramount. John and Faith Hubley, producers.
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Disney, Buena Vista. Walt Disney, producer.
Best Live Action Short Subject
The Dove, Coe-Davis, Schoenfeld Films. George Coe, Sidney Davis and Anthony Lover, producers.
Duo, National Film Board of Canada, Columbia.
Prelude, Prelude Company, Excelsior Dist. John Aston, producer.
Robert Kennedy Remembered, Guggenheim Prods., National General. Charles Guggenheim, producer.
Best Documentary Short Subject
The House that Amanda Built, Films Division, Government of India. Fali Bilimoria, producer.
The Revolting Door, Vision Associates for American Foundation Institute of Corrections. Lee R. Bobker, producer.
A Space to Grow, Office of Economic Opportunity for Project Upward Bound. Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. producer.
A Way out of the Wilderness, John Sutherland Prods. Dan E. Weisburd, producer.
Why Man Creates, Saul Bass & Associates. Saul Bass, producer.
Best Documentary Feature
A Few Notes on Our Food Problem, U.S. Information Agency. James Blue, producer.
Journey into Self, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, Bill McGaw, producer.
The Legendary Champions, Turn of the Century Fights. William Cayton, producer.
Other Voices, DHS Films. David H. Sawyer, producer.
Young Americans, The Young Americans Prod. Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, producers.
Best Foreign Language Film
The Boys of Paul Street (Hungary).
The Fireman's Ball (1967- Czechoslovakia).
The Girl with the Pistol (Italy).
Stolen Kisses (France).
War and Peace (1966-67 Russia).
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Not given this year.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Martha Raye.
Honorary Awards
John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes (statuette).
Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!
Scientific or Technical Awards
Class I (Statuette)
Philip V. Palmquist of Minnesota 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.
Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.
Class II (Plaque)
Donald W. Norwood for the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.
Eastman Kodak Company and Producers Service Company for the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.
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 camera.
Optical Coating Laboratores, Inc., for the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.
Eastman Kodak Company for the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.
Panavision Incorporated for the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera.
Todd-AO Company and the Mitchell Camera Company for the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera.
Class III (Citation)
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.
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.
Director's Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on February 22, 1969, 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
Paul Almond, Isabel
Anthony Harvey, The Lion in Winter
Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (finalist)
Jiri Menzel, Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel (finalist)
Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby
Carol Reed, Oliver! (finalist)
Gene Saks, The Odd Couple
William Wyler, Funny Girl (finalist)
Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet
Writers Guild of America Awards (Source: Tom O'Neil's Movie Awards, 2001. Awards were presented on March 23, 1969, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles). Winners listed in bold.
Best Written Drama
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Thomas C. Ryan, based on the novel by Carson McCullers
The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
Petulia, Lawrence B. Marcus, based on the Barbara Turner adaptation of the novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia by John Haase
Rachel, Rachel, Stewart Stern, based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, based on the novel by Ira Levin
Best Written Comedy
Hot Millions, Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
The Odd Couple, Neil Simon
The Producers, Mel Brooks
Yours, Mine and Ours, Melville Shavelson, Mort Lachman, story by Madelyn Davis aand Bob Carroll, Jr.
Best Written Musical
Finian's Rainbow, E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy
Funny Girl, Isobel Lennart
Star!, William Fairchild
Laurel Award
Carl Foreman
Valentine Davies Award
Dore Schary
Berlin Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)
Golden Bear for Best Film:
Ole Dole Doff (Jan Troell, Sweden)
Best Film: Second Prize:
Innocence Unprotected (Dustan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
Come l'Amore (Mizui, Italy)
Silver Bear for Best Director:
Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappe (1967)
Silver Bear for Best Actor:
Jean-Louis Trintignant, L'Homme Qui Ment
Silver Bear for Best Actress:
Stephanie Audran, Les Biches
Cannes Film Festival (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)
Festival Closed.
Best Film:
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel (Alexander Kluge, Germany)
Best Actor:
John Morely, Faces (USA)
Best Actress:
Laura Betti, Teorema (Italy)
Special Jury Prizes:
Le Socrate (Lapoujade, France)
Nostra Signora dei Turchi (Bene, Italy)
The New York Times Ten Best List (Listed in chronological order. Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)
Charlie Bubbles
The Two of Us (1967)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Faces
Les Carabiniers (1963)
The Bride Wore Black
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965)
Petulia
Rosemary's Baby
A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
The Top Box-Office Hits of 1968 (According to Variety- lists U.S. and Canadian rental fees up to the end of the calendar year. Late 1967 releases that primarily earned revenue in 1968 are included. Source: Variety, January 8, 1969)
1) The Graduate (1967)- $39,000,000
2) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)- $25,100,000
3) Gone With the Wind (1939- reissue)- $23,000,000
4) The Valley of the Dolls (1967)- $20,000,000
5) The Odd Couple- $18,500,000
6) Planet of the Apes- $15,000,000
7) Rosemary's Baby- $12,300,000
8) The Jungle Book (1967)- $11,500,000
9) Yours, Mine and Ours- $11,000,000
10) The Green Berets- $8,700,000
11) 2001: A Space Odyssey- $8,500,000
12) The Fox (1967)- $8,300,000
13) Wait Until Dark (1967)- $7,350,000
14) Camelot (1967)- $6,600,000
15) The Detective- $6,500,000
16) The Thomas Crown Affair- $6,000,000
17) In Cold Blood (1967)- $5,600,00
18) Bandolero- $5,500,000
19) Hang 'Em High- $5,000,000
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)- $5,000,000
21) The Ambushers (1967)- $4,700,000
22) Blackbeard's Ghost- $4,550,000
23) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)- $4,500,000
Prudence and the Pill- $4,500,000
25) The Devil's Brigade- $4,200,000
26) Wild in the Streets- $4,000,000
27) Funny Girl- $3,700,000 (placed #2 on the 1969 list, with $16,500,000 in rentals)
28) Never a Dull Moment- $3,600,000
With Six You Get Eggroll- $3,600,000
30) Doctor Dolittle (1967)- $3,500,000
The Secret War of Harry Frigg- $3,500,000
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?- $3,500,000
Five Card Stud- $3,500,000
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)- $3,500,000
35) Point Blank (1967)- $3,200,000
36) No Way to Treat a Lady- $3,100,000
37) Rachel, Rachel- $3,000,000
The Secret Life of an American Wife- $3,000,000
Speedway- $3,000,000
40) The Party- $2,900,000
41) The Comedians (1967)- $2,800,000
The Scalphunters- $2,800,000
43) Waterhole No. 3 (1967)- $2,700,000
How Sweet it Is- $2,700,000
45) Barbarella- $2,500,000
How to Save a Marriage- $2,500,000
47) The President Analyst (1967)- $2,450,000
48) Private Navy of Sgt, O'Farrell- $2,400,000
49) The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band- $2,250,000
50) Elvira Madigan (1967)- $2,100,000
Fitzwilly (1967)- $2,100,000
52) Dark of the Sun- $2,000,000
53) Will Penny- $1,800,000
54) Helga- $1,750,000
55) The Producers (1967)- $1,681,000
56) The Shakiest Gun in the West- $1,650,000
57) Petulia- $1,600,000
Interlude- $1,600,000
59) Billion Dollar Brain (1967)- $1,500,000
Closely-Watched Trains (1966)- $1,500,000
The Mini-Skirt Mob- $1,500,000
The Savage Seven- $1,500,000
Stranger in Town- $1,500,000
The Conqueror Worm- $1,500,000
Stay Away, Joe- $1,500,000
Bedazzled (1967)- $1,500,000
The Sweet Ride- $1,500,000
68) Poor Cow (1967)- $1,400,000
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows- $1,400,000
Anzlo- $1,400,000
71) Penthouse- $1,350,000
72) Star!- $1,300,000
73) Angels From Hell- $1,250,000
74) Villa Rides!- $1,200,000
75) Carmen Baby (1967)- $1,174,000
76) If He Hollers, Let Him Go- $1,150,000
77) Madigan- $1,100,000
78) Firecreek- $1,100,000
Sweet November- $1,100,000
Paper Lion- $1,100,000
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- $1,100,000
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas- $1,100,000
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River- $1,100,000
Shakalo- $1,100,000
Berserk (1967)- $1,100,000
86) P.J.- $1,000,000
King Kong Escapes- $1,000,000
Sergeant Ryker- $1,000,000
Maryjane- $1,000,000
The Top Ten Box-Office Stars of 1968 (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Sidney Poitier
1) Sidney Poitier
2) Paul Newman
3) Julie Andrews
4) John Wayne
5) Clint Eastwood
6) Dean Martin
7) Steve McQueen
8) Jack Lemmon
9) Lee Marvin
10) Elizabeth Taylor
The Next Fifteen:
11) Faye Dunaway
12) Elvia Presley
13) Frank Sinatra
14) Doris Day
15) Richard Burton
16) Sean Connery
17) Jane Fonda
18) Katharine Hepburn
19) Warren Beatty
20) Audrey Hepburn
21) Raquel Welch
22) Joanne Woodward
23) Julie Christie
24) Mia Farrow
25) Walter Matthau
1968's Top Ten "Stars of Tomorrow" (according to Quigley Publishing's poll of film exhibitors)
1) Dustin Hoffman
2) Katharine Ross
3) Katharine Houghton
4) Estelle Parsons
5) Judy Geeson
6) Robert Drivas
7) Robert Blake
8) Jim Brown
9) Gayle Hunnicut
10) Carol White
Harvard Lampoon's Movie Worst Awards (Source: Film Facts, 1980, edited by Cobbett Steinberg)
Ten Worst Movies:
The Lion in Winter
Ice Station Zebra
Rosemary's Baby
Star!
The Boston Strangler
Candy
Barbarella
You Are What You Eat
The Seagull
Boom
The Kirk Douglas Award to Worst Actor:
Sidney Poitier, For Love of Ivy
Natalie Wood Award to Worst Actress:
Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl
Worst Supporting Actor:
Rod Steiger, No Way to Treat a Lady
Worst Supporting Actress:
Ewa Aulin, Candy
The Roscoe Award:
(to that performer who displays a certain unskilled, clumsy quality)
Tony Curtis, The Boston Strangler