40th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1968)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Wednesday, April 10, 1968
  • For films released in: 1967
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 40th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Warren Beatty [Producer]
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Arthur P. Jacobs [Producer]
  • The Graduate
    Lawrence Turman [Producer]
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Stanley Kramer [Producer]
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Walter Mirisch [Producer]

Best Directing

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Arthur Penn
  • The Graduate
    Mike Nichols
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Stanley Kramer
  • In Cold Blood
    Richard Brooks
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Norman Jewison

Best Actor

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Warren Beatty
  • Cool Hand Luke
    Paul Newman
  • The Graduate
    Dustin Hoffman
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Spencer Tracy
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Rod Steiger

Best Actress

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Faye Dunaway
  • The Graduate
    Anne Bancroft
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Katharine Hepburn
  • Wait until Dark
    Audrey Hepburn
  • The Whisperers
    Dame Edith Evans

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Gene Hackman
  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Michael J. Pollard
  • Cool Hand Luke
    George Kennedy
  • The Dirty Dozen
    John Cassavetes
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Cecil Kellaway

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Barefoot in the Park
    Mildred Natwick
  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Estelle Parsons
  • The Graduate
    Katharine Ross
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Beah Richards
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Carol Channing

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Closely Watched Trains
  • El Amor Brujo
  • I Even Met Happy Gypsies
  • Live for Life
  • Portrait of Chieko

Best Art Direction

  • Camelot
    John Truscott [Art Direction], Edward Carrere [Art Direction] and John W. Brown [Set Decoration]
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Mario Chiari [Art Direction], Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Ed Graves [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Stuart A. Reiss [Set Decoration]
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Robert Clatworthy [Art Direction] and Frank Tuttle [Set Decoration]
  • The Taming of the Shrew
    Renzo Mongiardino [Art Direction], John DeCuir [Art Direction], Elven Webb [Art Direction], Giuseppe Mariani [Art Direction], Dario Simoni [Set Decoration] and Luigi Gervasi [Set Decoration]
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Alexander Golitzen [Art Direction], George C. Webb [Art Direction] and Howard Bristol [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Burnett Guffey
  • Camelot
    Richard H. Kline
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Robert Surtees
  • The Graduate
    Robert Surtees
  • In Cold Blood
    Conrad Hall

Best Costume Design

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    Theadora Van Runkle
  • Camelot
    John Truscott
  • The Happiest Millionaire
    Bill Thomas
  • The Taming of the Shrew
    Irene Sharaff and Danilo Donati
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Jean Louis

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • The Anderson Platoon
    Pierre Schoendoerffer
  • Festival
    Murray Lerner
  • Harvest
    Carroll Ballard
  • A King's Story
    Jack Le Vien
  • A Time for Burning
    William C. Jersey

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Monument to the Dream
    Charles E. Guggenheim
  • A Place to Stand
    Christopher Chapman
  • The Redwoods
    Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood
  • See You at the Pillar
    Robert Fitchett
  • While I Run This Race
    Carl V. Ragsdale

Best Film Editing

  • Beach Red
    Frank P. Keller
  • The Dirty Dozen
    Michael Luciano
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Samuel E. Beetley and Marjorie Fowler
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Robert C. Jones
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Hal Ashby

Best Music (Original Music Score)

  • Cool Hand Luke
    Lalo Schifrin
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Leslie Bricusse
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
    Richard Rodney Bennett
  • In Cold Blood
    Quincy Jones
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Elmer Bernstein

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

  • Camelot
    Alfred Newman and Ken Darby
  • Doctor Dolittle
    Lionel Newman and Alexander Courage
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    DeVol
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Andre Previn and Joseph Gershenson
  • Valley of the Dolls
    John Williams

Best Music (Song)

  • Banning "The Eyes of Love"
    Quincy Jones [Music by] and Bob Russell [Lyrics by]
  • Casino Royale "The Look of Love"
    Burt Bacharach [Music by] and Hal David [Lyrics by]
  • Doctor Dolittle "Talk to the Animals"
    Leslie Bricusse [Music and Lyrics by]
  • The Jungle Book "The Bare Necessities"
    Terry Gilkyson [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
    James Van Heusen [Music and Lyrics by] and Sammy Cahn [Music and Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • The Box
    Fred Wolf
  • Hypothese Beta
    Jean-Charles Meunier
  • What on Earth!
    Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

  • Paddle to the Sea
    Julian Biggs
  • A Place to Stand
    Christopher Chapman
  • Sky over Holland
    John Ferno
  • Stop, Look and Listen
    Len Janson and Chuck Menville

Best Sound

  • Camelot
    Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
  • The Dirty Dozen
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
  • Doctor Dolittle
    20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
    Universal City Studio Sound Department

Best Sound Effects

  • The Dirty Dozen
    John Poyner
  • In the Heat of the Night
    James A. Richard

Best Special Visual Effects

  • Doctor Dolittle
    L.B. Abbott
  • Tobruk
    Howard A. Anderson Jr. and Albert Whitlock

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

  • Cool Hand Luke
    Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson
  • The Graduate
    Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
  • In Cold Blood
    Richard Brooks
  • In the Heat of the Night
    Stirling Silliphant
  • Ulysses
    Joseph Strick and Fred Haines

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

  • Bonnie and Clyde
    David Newman and Robert Benton
  • Divorce American Style
    Robert Kaufman [Story by] and Norman Lear [Screenplay by]
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    William Rose
  • La Guerre Est Finie
    Jorge Semprun
  • Two for the Road
    Frederic Raphael
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