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1968

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The 40th Academy Awards | 1968
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Wednesday, April 10, 1968
Honoring movies released in 1967
Highlights
Thalberg Award

Alfred Hitchcock, presented by Robert Wise

Film Editing
In the Heat of the Night

Hal Ashby

Supporting Actor
Cool Hand Luke

George Kennedy

Memorable Moments
Mike Nichols
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Best Directing winner for The Gradaute, with presenter Leslie Caron

In the Heat of the Night
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Film Editing winner Hal Ashby, director Norman Jewison, Best Actor Rod Steiger and Best Picture-winning producer Walter Mirisch

Gregory Peck
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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient, with presenter Rosalind Russell.

WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Rod Steiger
In the Heat of the Night
Nominees
Warren Beatty
Bonnie and Clyde
Nominees
Dustin Hoffman
The Graduate
Nominees
Paul Newman
Cool Hand Luke
Nominees
Spencer Tracy
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
George Kennedy
Cool Hand Luke
Nominees
John Cassavetes
The Dirty Dozen
Nominees
Gene Hackman
Bonnie and Clyde
Nominees
Cecil Kellaway
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Nominees
Michael J. Pollard
Bonnie and Clyde
Actress
Winner
Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Nominees
Anne Bancroft
The Graduate
Nominees
Faye Dunaway
Bonnie and Clyde
Nominees
Dame Edith Evans
The Whisperers
Nominees
Audrey Hepburn
Wait until Dark
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Estelle Parsons
Bonnie and Clyde
Nominees
Carol Channing
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Nominees
Mildred Natwick
Barefoot in the Park
Nominees
Beah Richards
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Nominees
Katharine Ross
The Graduate
Art Direction
Winner
Camelot
Art Direction: John Truscott, Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Nominees
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle
Nominees
The Taming of the Shrew
Art Direction: Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi
Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
Cinematography
Winner
Bonnie and Clyde
Burnett Guffey
Nominees
Camelot
Richard H. Kline
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Robert Surtees
Nominees
The Graduate
Robert Surtees
Nominees
In Cold Blood
Conrad Hall
Costume Design
Winner
Camelot
John Truscott
Nominees
Bonnie and Clyde
Theadora Van Runkle
Nominees
The Happiest Millionaire
Bill Thomas
Nominees
The Taming of the Shrew
Irene Sharaff, Danilo Donati
Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Jean Louis
Directing
Winner
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
Nominees
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
Nominees
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer
Nominees
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
Nominees
In the Heat of the Night
Norman Jewison
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Anderson Platoon
Pierre Schoendoerffer, Producer
Nominees
Festival
Murray Lerner, Producer
Nominees
Harvest
Carroll Ballard, Producer
Nominees
A King's Story
Jack Le Vien, Producer
Nominees
A Time for Burning
William C. Jersey, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
The Redwoods
Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
Nominees
Monument to the Dream
Charles E. Guggenheim, Producer
Nominees
A Place to Stand
Christopher Chapman, Producer
Nominees
See You at the Pillar
Robert Fitchett, Producer
Nominees
While I Run This Race
Carl V. Ragsdale, Producer
Film Editing
Winner
In the Heat of the Night
Hal Ashby
Nominees
Beach Red
Frank P. Keller
Nominees
The Dirty Dozen
Michael Luciano
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler
Nominees
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Robert C. Jones
Foreign Language Film
Winner
Closely Watched Trains
Czechoslovakia
Nominees
El Amor Brujo
Spain
Nominees
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Yugoslavia
Nominees
Live for Life
France
Nominees
Portrait of Chieko
Japan
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Winner
Alfred Hitchcock
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Winner
Gregory Peck
Music (Original Music Score)
Winner
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Elmer Bernstein
Nominees
Cool Hand Luke
Lalo Schifrin
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Leslie Bricusse
Nominees
Far from the Madding Crowd
Richard Rodney Bennett
Nominees
In Cold Blood
Quincy Jones
Music (Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment)
Winner
Camelot
Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
Nominees
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
DeVol
Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Andre Previn, Joseph Gershenson
Nominees
Valley of the Dolls
John Williams
Music (Song)
Winner
Doctor Dolittle
Talk To The Animals in "Doctor Dolittle" Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Nominees
The Jungle Book
The Bare Necessities in "The Jungle Book" Music and Lyrics by Terry Gilkyson
Nominees
Banning
The Eyes Of Love in "Banning" Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell
Nominees
Casino Royale
The Look Of Love in "Casino Royale" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Music and Lyrics by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
Best Picture
Winner
In the Heat of the Night
Walter Mirisch, Producer
Nominees
Bonnie and Clyde
Warren Beatty, Producer
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
Arthur P. Jacobs, Producer
Nominees
The Graduate
Lawrence Turman, Producer
Nominees
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer, Producer
Short Subject (Cartoon)
Winner
The Box
Fred Wolf, Producer
Nominees
Hypothese Beta
Jean-Charles Meunier, Producer
Nominees
What on Earth!
Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig, Producers
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
A Place to Stand
Christopher Chapman, Producer
Nominees
Paddle to the Sea
Julian Biggs, Producer
Nominees
Sky over Holland
John Ferno, Producer
Nominees
Stop, Look and Listen
Len Janson and Chuck Menville, Producers
Sound
Winner
In the Heat of the Night
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
Nominees
Camelot
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
Nominees
The Dirty Dozen
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
Nominees
Doctor Dolittle
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Universal City Studio Sound Department
Sound Effects
Winner
The Dirty Dozen
John Poyner
Nominees
In the Heat of the Night
James A. Richard
Special Visual Effects
Winner
Doctor Dolittle
L. B. Abbott
Nominees
Tobruk
Howard A. Anderson, Jr., Albert Whitlock
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
In the Heat of the Night
Stirling Silliphant
Nominees
Cool Hand Luke
Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson
Nominees
The Graduate
Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
Nominees
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
Nominees
Ulysses
Joseph Strick, Fred Haines
Writing (Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
Winner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
William Rose
Nominees
Bonnie and Clyde
David Newman, Robert Benton
Nominees
Divorce American Style
Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
Nominees
La Guerre Est Finie
Jorge Semprun
Nominees
Two for the Road
Frederic Raphael

A

The Anderson Platoon
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Feature) - Pierre Schoendoerffer, Producer

B

Banning
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - The Eyes Of Love in "Banning" Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell
Barefoot in the Park
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Mildred Natwick
Beach Red
1 NOMINATION
  • Film Editing - Frank P. Keller
Bonnie and Clyde
9 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Actress in a Supporting Role - Estelle Parsons
  • * Cinematography - Burnett Guffey
  • Actor - Warren Beatty
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard
  • Actress - Faye Dunaway
  • Costume Design - Theadora Van Runkle
  • Directing - Arthur Penn
  • Best Picture - Warren Beatty, Producer
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - David Newman, Robert Benton
The Box
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Short Subject (Cartoon) - Fred Wolf, Producer

C

Camelot
5 NOMINATIONS, 3 WINS
  • * Art Direction - Art Direction: John Truscott, Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown
  • * Costume Design - John Truscott
  • * Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
  • Cinematography - Richard H. Kline
  • Sound - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
Casino Royale
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - The Look Of Love in "Casino Royale" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Closely Watched Trains
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Foreign Language Film - Czechoslovakia
In Cold Blood
4 NOMINATIONS
  • Cinematography - Conrad Hall
  • Directing - Richard Brooks
  • Music (Original Music Score) - Quincy Jones
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Richard Brooks
Cool Hand Luke
4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Actor in a Supporting Role - George Kennedy
  • Actor - Paul Newman
  • Music (Original Music Score) - Lalo Schifrin
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson

D

The Dirty Dozen
4 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Sound Effects - John Poyner
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - John Cassavetes
  • Film Editing - Michael Luciano
  • Sound - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
Divorce American Style
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
Doctor Dolittle
9 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Music (Song) - Talk To The Animals in "Doctor Dolittle" Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
  • * Special Visual Effects - L. B. Abbott
  • Art Direction - Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
  • Cinematography - Robert Surtees
  • Film Editing - Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler
  • Music (Original Music Score) - Leslie Bricusse
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Lionel Newman, Alexander Courage
  • Best Picture - Arthur P. Jacobs, Producer
  • Sound - 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department

E

El Amor Brujo
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Spain

F

Far from the Madding Crowd
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Original Music Score) - Richard Rodney Bennett
Festival
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Murray Lerner, Producer

G

The Graduate
7 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Directing - Mike Nichols
  • Actor - Dustin Hoffman
  • Actress - Anne Bancroft
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Katharine Ross
  • Cinematography - Robert Surtees
  • Best Picture - Lawrence Turman, Producer
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
10 NOMINATIONS, 2 WINS
  • * Actress - Katharine Hepburn
  • * Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - William Rose
  • Actor - Spencer Tracy
  • Actor in a Supporting Role - Cecil Kellaway
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Beah Richards
  • Art Direction - Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle
  • Directing - Stanley Kramer
  • Film Editing - Robert C. Jones
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - DeVol
  • Best Picture - Stanley Kramer, Producer

H

The Happiest Millionaire
1 NOMINATION
  • Costume Design - Bill Thomas
Harvest
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Carroll Ballard, Producer
Hypothese Beta
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Jean-Charles Meunier, Producer
In the Heat of the Night
7 NOMINATIONS, 5 WINS
  • * Actor - Rod Steiger
  • * Film Editing - Hal Ashby
  • * Best Picture - Walter Mirisch, Producer
  • * Sound - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
  • * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stirling Silliphant
  • Directing - Norman Jewison
  • Sound Effects - James A. Richard

I

I Even Met Happy Gypsies
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Yugoslavia

J

The Jungle Book
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Song) - The Bare Necessities in "The Jungle Book" Music and Lyrics by Terry Gilkyson

K

A King's Story
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - Jack Le Vien, Producer

L

La Guerre Est Finie
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Jorge Semprun
Live for Life
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - France

M

Monument to the Dream
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Charles E. Guggenheim, Producer

P

Paddle to the Sea
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Julian Biggs, Producer
A Place to Stand
2 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Short Subject (Live Action) - Christopher Chapman, Producer
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Christopher Chapman, Producer
Portrait of Chieko
1 NOMINATION
  • Foreign Language Film - Japan

R

The Redwoods
1 WIN, 1 NOMINATION
  • * Documentary (Short Subject) - Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers

S

See You at the Pillar
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Robert Fitchett, Producer
Sky over Holland
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - John Ferno, Producer
Stop, Look and Listen
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Live Action) - Len Janson and Chuck Menville, Producers

T

The Taming of the Shrew
2 NOMINATIONS
  • Art Direction - Art Direction: Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi
  • Costume Design - Irene Sharaff, Danilo Donati
Thoroughly Modern Millie
7 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
  • * Music (Original Music Score) - Elmer Bernstein
  • Actress in a Supporting Role - Carol Channing
  • Art Direction - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol
  • Costume Design - Jean Louis
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - Andre Previn, Joseph Gershenson
  • Music (Song) - Thoroughly Modern Millie in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" Music and Lyrics by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
  • Sound - Universal City Studio Sound Department
A Time for Burning
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Feature) - William C. Jersey, Producer
Tobruk
1 NOMINATION
  • Special Visual Effects - Howard A. Anderson, Jr., Albert Whitlock
Two for the Road
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Frederic Raphael

U

Ulysses
1 NOMINATION
  • Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines

V

Valley of the Dolls
1 NOMINATION
  • Music (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) - John Williams

W

Wait until Dark
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Audrey Hepburn
What on Earth!
1 NOMINATION
  • Short Subject (Cartoon) - Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig, Producers
While I Run This Race
1 NOMINATION
  • Documentary (Short Subject) - Carl V. Ragsdale, Producer
The Whisperers
1 NOMINATION
  • Actress - Dame Edith Evans
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