42nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1970)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Tuesday, April 7, 1970
  • For films released in: 1969
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 42nd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Hal B. Wallis [Producer]
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    John Foreman [Producer]
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Ernest Lehman
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Jerome Hellman [Producer]
  • Z
    Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi

Best Directing

  • Alice's Restaurant
    Arthur Penn
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    George Roy Hill
  • Midnight Cowboy
    John Schlesinger
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Sydney Pollack
  • Z
    Costa-Gavras

Best Actor

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Richard Burton
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Peter O'Toole
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Dustin Hoffman
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Jon Voight
  • True Grit
    John Wayne

Best Actress

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Genevieve Bujold
  • The Happy Ending
    Jean Simmons
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    Maggie Smith
  • The Sterile Cuckoo
    Liza Minnelli
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Jane Fonda

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Anthony Quayle
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Elliot Gould
  • Easy Rider
    Jack Nicholson
  • The Reivers
    Rupert Crosse
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Gig Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Dyan Cannon
  • Cactus Flower
    Goldie Hawn
  • Last Summer
    Catherine Burns
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Sylvia Miles
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Susannah York

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Ådalen '31
  • The Battle of Neretva
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • My Night at Maud's
  • Z

Best Art Direction

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Maurice Carter [Art Direction], Lionel Couch [Art Direction] and Patrick McLoughlin [Set Decoration]
  • Gaily, Gaily
    Robert Boyle [Art Direction], George B. Chan [Art Direction], Edward Boyle [Set Decoration] and Carl Biddiscombe [Set Decoration]
  • Hello, Dolly!
    John DeCuir [Art Direction], Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Herman Blumenthal [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration], George Hopkins [Set Decoration] and Raphael Bretton [Set Decoration]
  • Sweet Charity
    Alexander Golitzen [Art Direction], George C. Webb [Art Direction] and Jack D. Moore [Set Decoration]
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Harry Horner [Art Direction] and Frank R. McKelvy [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Arthur Ibbetson
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Charles B. Lang Jr.
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Conrad Hall
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Harry Stradling Sr.
  • Marooned
    Daniel Fapp

Best Costume Design

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Margaret Furse
  • Gaily, Gaily
    Ray Aghayan
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Irene Sharaff
  • Sweet Charity
    Edith Head
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Donfeld

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
    Bernard Chevry
  • Before the Mountain Was Moved
    Robert K. Sharpe
  • In the Year of the Pig
    Emile de Antonio
  • The Olympics in Mexico
    Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
  • The Wolf Men
    Irwin Rosten

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Czechoslovakia 1968
    Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco
  • An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
    Donald Wrye
  • Jenny Is a Good Thing
    Joan Horvath
  • Leo Beuerman
    Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser
  • The Magic Machines
    Joan Keller Stern

Best Film Editing

  • Hello, Dolly!
    William Reynolds
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Hugh A. Robertson
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria
    William Lyon and Earle Herdan
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Fredric Steinkamp
  • Z
    Françoise Bonnot

Best Music (Score of a Musical Picture - original or adaptation)

  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Leslie Bricusse [Music and Lyrics by] and John Williams [Adaptation Score by]
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Lennie Hayton [Adaptation Score by] and Lionel Newman [Adaptation Score by]
  • Paint Your Wagon
    Nelson Riddle [Adaptation Score by]
  • Sweet Charity
    Cy Coleman [Adaptation Score by]
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    John Green [Adaptation Score by] and Albert Woodbury [Adaptation Score by]

Best Music (Original Score - for a motion picture [not a musical])

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    Georges Delerue
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Burt Bacharach
  • The Reivers
    John Williams
  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria
    Ernest Gold
  • The Wild Bunch
    Jerry Fielding

Best Music (Song - Original for the Picture)

  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
    Burt Bacharach [Music by] and Hal David [Music by]
  • The Happy Ending "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"
    Michel Legrand [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyrics by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyrics by]
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie "Jean"
    Rod McKuen [Music and Lyrics by]
  • The Sterile Cuckoo "Come Saturday Morning"
    Fred Karlin [Music by] and Dory Previn [Lyrics by]
  • True Grit "True Grit"
    Elmer Bernstein [Music by] and Don Black [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

  • It's Tough to Be a Bird
    Ward Kimball
  • Of Men and Demons
    John Hubley and Faith Hubley
  • Walking
    Ryan Larkin

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

  • Blake
    Doug Jackman
  • The Magic Machines
    Joan Keller Stern
  • People Soup
    Marc Merson

Best Sound

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    John Aldred
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    William Edmondson and David Dockendorf
  • Gaily, Gaily
    Robert Martin and Clem Portman
  • Hello, Dolly!
    Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack
  • Marooned
    Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi

Best Special Visual Effects

  • Krakatoa, East of Java
    Eugene Lourie and Alex Weldon
  • Marooned
    Robbie Robertson

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

  • Anne of the Thousand Days
    John Hale [Screenplay by], Bridget Boland [Screenplay by] and Richard Sokolove [Adaptation by]
  • Goodbye, Columbus
    Arnold Schulman
  • Midnight Cowboy
    Waldo Salt
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
  • Z
    Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced)

  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    William Goldman
  • The Damned
    Nicola Badalucco [Story and Screenplay by], Enrico Medioli [Screenplay by] and Luchino Visconti [Screenplay by]
  • Easy Rider
    Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern
  • The Wild Bunch
    Walon Green [Story and Screenplay by], Roy N. Sickner [Story by] and Sam Peckinpah [Screenplay by]
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