42nd Annual Academy Awards Coverage (1970)
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- Date of Ceremony: Tuesday, April 7, 1970
- For films released in: 1969
- Location: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
The 42nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees were a mixed bag: an X-rated film about a wannabe hustler, an English costume drama, a western adventure film, a Broadway musical and French language political thriller.
For the second year, the ceremony took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Heading into the ceremony, the following film(s) had five or more nominations:
- Anne of the Thousand Days: 10
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?: 9
- Midnight Cowboy: 7
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 7
- Hello, Dolly!: 7
- Z: 5