The 42nd Annual Academy Awards
| 42nd Academy Awards | |
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| Date | April 7, 1970 |
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles |
| Hosted by | none |
| Produced by | M.J. Frankovich |
| Directed by | Jack Haley Jr. |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Midnight Cowboy |
| Most awards | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4) |
| Most nominations | Anne of the Thousand Days (10) |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | ABC |
| Duration | 2 hours, 25 minutes |
| Ratings | 43.4% (Nielsen ratings) |
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. .For the second year in a row, there was no official host. Awards were presented by seventeen "Friends of Oscar": Bob Hope, John Wayne,Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire, Jon Voight, Myrna Loy, Clint Eastwood, Raquel Welch, Candice Bergen, James Earl Jones, Katharine Ross, Cliff Robertson, Ali MacGraw, Barbara McNair, Elliott Gould, Claudia Cardinale, and Elizabeth Taylor. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, but only outside North America. Mexico and Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live.
This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings. The record, as of 2017, remains unbroken thanks to the emergence of the Super Bowl as the biggest annual event of awards season.
Midnight Cowboy became the first – and so far, the only – X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Carol Reed's Oliver!.
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