41st Academy Awards
| 41st Academy Awards | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Date | April 14, 1969 |
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles |
| Hosted by | none |
| Produced by | Gower Champion |
| Directed by | Gower Champion |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Oliver! |
| Most awards | Oliver! (5) |
| Most nominations | Oliver! (11) |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | ABC |
The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. For the first time since the 11th Academy Awards, there was no host.
Oliver! became the first—and so far, the only—G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. By contrast, the following year would see the only X-rated film to win Best Picture, Midnight Cowboy. Oliver! would also be the last British film to win Best Picture until Chariots of Fire in 1982 and the last movie musical to win until Chicago in 2003 (though others have been nominated: Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, All That Jazz, Beauty and the Beast, Moulin Rouge!, and Les Misérables).
The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—tie for Best Actress (or any female acting category). Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl shared the award. Hepburn also became the second actress and third performer overall to win an acting Oscar two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth), and Spencer Tracy in 1937 (Captains Courageous) and 1938 (Boys Town). The previous year, Hepburn had won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
...
Wikipedia