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Academy Awards, USA: 1968

Oscar

Date:10 April
Host:Bob Hope (I)
Location:Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Notes:
  • The ceremony is postponed from Monday, 8th, on short notice, because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
  • Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films, the awards for cinematography, art direction and costume design are combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and black/white.

Best Picture
  Winner:
 
  Other Nominees:
 
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Warren Beatty
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Arthur P. Jacobs
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Stanley Kramer
  • The Graduate (1967) - Lawrence Turman

  • Best Actor in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Warren Beatty
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Paul Newman (I)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Spencer Tracy
    - Posthumously.
  • The Graduate (1967) - Dustin Hoffman

  • Best Actress in a Leading Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Faye Dunaway
  • The Graduate (1967) - Anne Bancroft (I)
  • The Whisperers (1967) - Edith Evans (I)
  • Wait Until Dark (1967) - Audrey Hepburn

  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Gene Hackman
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Michael J. Pollard
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Cecil Kellaway
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967) - John Cassavetes (I)

  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Barefoot in the Park (1967) - Mildred Natwick
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Beah Richards
  • The Graduate (1967) - Katharine Ross (I)
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Carol Channing

  • Best Director
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Arthur Penn (I)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Stanley Kramer
  • In Cold Blood (1967) - Richard Brooks (I)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Norman Jewison

  • Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - David Newman (III); Robert Benton (I)
  • Divorce American Style (1967) - Robert Kaufman (I) (story); Norman Lear (screenplay)
  • La guerre est finie (1966) - Jorge Semprún
  • Two for the Road (1967) - Frederic Raphael

  • Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Donn Pearce; Frank Pierson (I)
  • In Cold Blood (1967) - Richard Brooks (I)
  • The Graduate (1967) - Calder Willingham; Buck Henry
  • Ulysses (1967) - Joseph Strick; Fred Haines

  • Best Cinematography
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Camelot (1967) - Richard H. Kline
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Robert Surtees
  • In Cold Blood (1967) - Conrad L. Hall
  • The Graduate (1967) - Robert Surtees

  • Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Mario Chiari (I); Jack Martin Smith; Ed Graves; Walter M. Scott; Stuart A. Reiss
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Robert Clatworthy; Frank Tuttle (II)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1967) - Lorenzo Mongiardino; John DeCuir; Elven Webb; Giuseppe Mariani; Dario Simoni; Luigi Gervasi
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Alexander Golitzen; George C. Webb; Howard Bristol

  • Best Costume Design
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Theadora Van Runkle
  • The Happiest Millionaire (1967) - Bill Thomas (I)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1967) - Irene Sharaff; Danilo Donati
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Jean Louis (I)

  • Best Sound
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Camelot (1967) - Warner Bros.-Seven Arts SSD
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - 20th Century-Fox SSD
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967) - M-G-M SSD
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Universal City SSD

  • Best Film Editing
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Beach Red (1967) - Frank P. Keller
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Samuel E. Beetley; Marjorie Fowler
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Robert C. Jones (I)
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967) - Michael Luciano (III)

  • Best Effects, Special Effects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Tobruk (1967) - Howard A. Anderson (I); Albert Whitlock

  • Best Effects, Sound Effects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967) - James Richard (III)

  • Best Music, Original Song
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Banning (1967) - Quincy Jones (music); Bob Russell (II) (lyrics)
    - For the song "The Eyes of Love".
  • Casino Royale (1967) - Burt Bacharach (music); Hal David (II) (lyrics)
    - For the song "The Look of Love".
  • The Jungle Book (1967) - Terry Gilkyson
    - For the song "The Bare Necessities".
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn
    - For the song "Thoroughly Modern Millie".

  • Best Music, Original Music Score
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Lalo Schifrin
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Leslie Bricusse
  • Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) - Richard Rodney Bennett
  • In Cold Blood (1967) - Quincy Jones

  • Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) - Lionel Newman; Alexander Courage
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - Frank De Vol
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - André Previn; Joseph Gershenson
  • Valley of the Dolls (1967) - John Williams (I)

  • Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Paddle to the Sea (1966) - Julian Biggs
  • Sky Over Holland (1967) - John Fernhout
  • Stop Look and Listen (1967) - Len Janson; Chuck Menville

  • Best Short Subject, Cartoons
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Hypothèse Beta (1967) - Jean-Charles Meunier
  • What on Earth! (1967) - Robert Verrall; Wolf Koenig

  • Best Documentary, Short Subjects
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A Place to Stand (1967) - Christopher Chapman (I)
  • Monument to the Dream (1967) - Charles Guggenheim
  • See You at the Pillar (1967) - Robert Fitchet
  • While I Run This Race (1967) - Carl V. Ragsdale

  • Best Documentary, Features
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • A King's Story (1965) - Jack Levin (I)
  • A Time for Burning (1967) - Bill Jersey
  • Festival (1967) - Murray Lerner (I)
  • Harvest (1967) - Carroll Ballard

  • Best Foreign Language Film
      Winner:
     
      Other Nominees:
     
  • Chieko-sho (1967)
    - Japan
  • El amor brujo (1967)
    - Spain
  • Skupljaci perja (1967)
    - Yugoslavia
  • Vivre pour vivre (1967)
    - France

  • Honorary Award

      Awarded to:
     
    • Arthur Freed
      - For distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts.

    Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

      Awarded to:
     

    Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

      Awarded to:
     

    Academy Award of Merit

      Winner:
     

    • - Not awarded.

    Scientific and Engineering Award

      Winner:
     

    • - Not awarded.

    Technical Achievement Award

      Winners:
     
    • Electro-Optical Division of Kollmorgen Corp.
      - For the design and development of a series of Motion Picture Projection Lenses.
    • Panavision, Inc.
      - For a Variable Speed Motor for Motion Picture Cameras.
    • Waldon O. Watson; Universal City SSD
      - For new concepts in the design of a Music Scoring Stage.
    • Fred R. Wilson (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Dept.)
      - For an Audio Level Clamper.