1969 is a weird year because it's both the first year of the 70s and the last year of the 60s. Midnight Cowboy wins Best Picture which ushered in cool choices like The French Connection and The Godfather. But they are still holding on to big loud musicals like Hello, Dolly! and lavish costume dramas like Anne Of The Thousand Days. I usually like watching all the nominated movies back to back because it instantly drops me in to the time period. I feel like I'm living in that year. This was a truly bizarre movie marathon. I got Midnight Cowboy, Z and Hello, Dolly!. I wasn't sure what year I was in.
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4. Anne Of The Thousand Days - This is a movie that I had a predisposition to dislike. I remember reading in Inside Oscar that a big promotional campaign was given to this film, the producers screened the movie with a dinner that included lobster and filet mignon. So people were voting with their stomachs instead of their hearts. This is another movie that seems to be hearkening back to the good old days. If this movie came out in 1953 it would be amazing. After watching Midnight Cowboy this movie feels like a find at an archaeological dig. King Henry VIII is upset that his current wife hasn't bore him a son so he wants to divorce her and marry another lady. The church thinks divorce is a sin so he creates his own church. Have you seen A Man For All Seasons? That movie is about the exact same thing but is way better.
3. Z - Normally a foreign film falls into 5th place automatically but this year includes Hello, Dolly! and Anne Of The Thousand Days so Z moves up a few slots. Z is a political thriller from Algeria. A leftist is killed by a car but it turns out not to be an accident but a political assassination. This movie is really well made. The editing and cinematography are exceptional and even if this category wasn't weak it may have been 3rd for a vote.
2. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid - This is an incredibly fun western. Paul Newman is Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford is The Sundance Kid. They rob trains and banks together, head to Bolivia to start a new life and go out together in a hail of gunfire. Of the nominated films it is my favorite but the academy made the right decision this year. The cast and crew teamed up again 4 years later for The Sting so they got their Oscar eventually.
1. Midnight Cowboy - I don't like to speak in generalities but I believe that this is the best movie where Bob Balaban gives a cowboy a blowjob. Jon Voight plays an idealistic and naive young man who dreams of moving to New York City and becoming a male prostitute. When he gets there he finds out that the life of a gigolo is not as rosy as he believed. He gets conned by a hustler played by Dustin Hoffman who eventually becomes his pimp. He survives by eating crackers with ketchup and has to resorts to gay bathroom hookups. It's a super dark movie about male prostitution. This is really the first 70s movie. It was rated X (the movie rating system was still in its infancy, it was re-released with an R rating) and dealt with dark subject matters and showed life how it is. Things aren't always glossy and happy, sometimes life is getting blown by a guy in a movie theater and stealing his watch.
Butch And Sundance is my favorite movie because I like fun movies. I like watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford have fun robbing trains and going out together. Midnight Cowboy is the cooler Oscar winner though so I'm happy it won and am giving it my vote. It's the only X rated movie to win Best Picture, it's dark and gritty and is nothing like what the Oscars were honoring at the time. Last year's winner was Oliver! and this year's winner has a male prostitute dressed like a cowboy cradling his dead friend on a bus. This is the movie we needed to win at the time.
Oscar Winner: Midnight Cowboy
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5. Hello, Dolly! - It's weird, I liked Funny Lady when I did my 1968 Oscar Watch. This movie I couldn't care less about. What a difference a year makes. This movie feels like a dinosaur from another era. 1968 had Funny Lady, Oliver!, Romeo And Juliet, The Lion In Winter and Rachel, Rachel. All those movies seem to exist in the same year. This year has Butch & Sundance, Midnight Cowboy and Hello, Dolly!. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the movie musical had a time and a place and that was before 1969. If this movie came out in 1959 I would grant its nomination but it sticks out like a sore thumb this year.
4. Anne Of The Thousand Days - This is a movie that I had a predisposition to dislike. I remember reading in Inside Oscar that a big promotional campaign was given to this film, the producers screened the movie with a dinner that included lobster and filet mignon. So people were voting with their stomachs instead of their hearts. This is another movie that seems to be hearkening back to the good old days. If this movie came out in 1953 it would be amazing. After watching Midnight Cowboy this movie feels like a find at an archaeological dig. King Henry VIII is upset that his current wife hasn't bore him a son so he wants to divorce her and marry another lady. The church thinks divorce is a sin so he creates his own church. Have you seen A Man For All Seasons? That movie is about the exact same thing but is way better.
3. Z - Normally a foreign film falls into 5th place automatically but this year includes Hello, Dolly! and Anne Of The Thousand Days so Z moves up a few slots. Z is a political thriller from Algeria. A leftist is killed by a car but it turns out not to be an accident but a political assassination. This movie is really well made. The editing and cinematography are exceptional and even if this category wasn't weak it may have been 3rd for a vote.
2. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid - This is an incredibly fun western. Paul Newman is Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford is The Sundance Kid. They rob trains and banks together, head to Bolivia to start a new life and go out together in a hail of gunfire. Of the nominated films it is my favorite but the academy made the right decision this year. The cast and crew teamed up again 4 years later for The Sting so they got their Oscar eventually.
1. Midnight Cowboy - I don't like to speak in generalities but I believe that this is the best movie where Bob Balaban gives a cowboy a blowjob. Jon Voight plays an idealistic and naive young man who dreams of moving to New York City and becoming a male prostitute. When he gets there he finds out that the life of a gigolo is not as rosy as he believed. He gets conned by a hustler played by Dustin Hoffman who eventually becomes his pimp. He survives by eating crackers with ketchup and has to resorts to gay bathroom hookups. It's a super dark movie about male prostitution. This is really the first 70s movie. It was rated X (the movie rating system was still in its infancy, it was re-released with an R rating) and dealt with dark subject matters and showed life how it is. Things aren't always glossy and happy, sometimes life is getting blown by a guy in a movie theater and stealing his watch.
Butch And Sundance is my favorite movie because I like fun movies. I like watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford have fun robbing trains and going out together. Midnight Cowboy is the cooler Oscar winner though so I'm happy it won and am giving it my vote. It's the only X rated movie to win Best Picture, it's dark and gritty and is nothing like what the Oscars were honoring at the time. Last year's winner was Oliver! and this year's winner has a male prostitute dressed like a cowboy cradling his dead friend on a bus. This is the movie we needed to win at the time.
Oscar Winner: Midnight Cowboy
My Vote: Midnight Cowboy
GABBY Winner: Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
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5. Richard Burton - Anne Of The Thousand Days - Burton plays Henry VIII and after watching Robert Shaw play the character in A Man For All Seasons, Charles Laughton play him and Peter O'Toole play Henry II, this might be my least favorite portrayal of a King Henry. Everyone else plays him very boisterous and big, Burton plays him like Richard Burton and it's fairly dull.
4. Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips - This is a musical adaptation of the 1939 film that won Robert Donat a Best Actor Oscar. I absolutely hated this film. The story is pretty boring to begin with and this movie added terrible songs. O'Toole deserved an Oscar, but not for this.
3. Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy - Midnight Cowboy is about a naive young Texan who dreams of becoming a highly paid male prostitute in the big city. Voight is really incredible in the film and the reason the film works. He brings a certain innocence to Joe Buck. He's so sweet and helpless that we believe that he could be conned so easily. His chemistry with Dustin Hoffman is also incredible.
2. Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy - Based on performance alone, there is no reason why Dustin Hoffman shouldn't have won the Oscar this year. He completely transforms himself from his breakout role in The Graduate to play Ratzo Rizzo, a New York hustler who befriends a male prostitute and becomes his pimp. The looks on Hoffman's face as he imagines what his life could have been provide deep glimpses into his character's soul.
1. John Wayne - True Grit - "Fill your hands, you son of a bitch". Wayne plays Rooster Cogburn, a drunk marshal that is hired by a young girl to bring in the man who killed her father. The only reason people hate this is because he won. This is a career achievement Oscar plain and simple, but it's John Wayne. Ask like half the dads you know and I'll guarantee you that John Wayne is one of their favorite movie stars. The Duke deserved an Oscar, this wasn't his greatest performance (I would argue Red River or The Shootist) but this is the one he won for.
It's John Wayne. I would usually say that an Oscar should be won based on performance, but it's John Wayne. Hoffman and Voight eventually got their Oscars so everything worked out there. The only problem here is that you have both Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, two of the most nominated actors without a win. I would much rather have John Wayne win for a quality, if not his best, performance than have Burton win for a lame costume drama or O'Toole win for a lame musical.
Oscar Winner: John Wayne
My Vote: John Wayne
GABBY Winner: Dustin Hoffman
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5. Genevieve Bujold - Anne Of The Thousand Days - Bujold is actually very good in her first English speaking role. She's the best part of the film but there's no way I can vote for anyone in this boring movie.
4. Jean Simmons - The Happy Ending - This was a hard movie to find. If you're going to mount your own Oscar watch don't just Google search "Happy Ending" and then when you don't find what you're looking for don't add "69" afterwards to refine your search, it just causes more issues. Simmons plays a housewife in a rut, she's been married for many years and the love has gone out of the relationship. She loves old movies (specifically Casablanca) and goes to the Bahamas to discover herself. It's one of those old ladies finally discovers her worth movies. It's good and Simmons is good in it but this feels like a nomination for a veteran and a movie starring an older actress.
3. Liza Minnelli - The Sterile Cuckoo - Liza plays a kooky and eccentric college student (I was under the assumption she had Asperger's Syndrome, but I think she's just quirky). She meets a guy on the street and starts a friendship with him. They both go to different colleges and when the guy moves into his dorm, there's Liza, she wants to be boyfriend and girlfriend but he's a little reluctant. They eventually fall in love but complications arise. I loved Liza in this movie, she gives a terrific romantic comedy performance and I fell in love with her just as the guy was. She's cute, fun and funny. I like her in this much better than the performance she won for in 1972.
2. Maggie Smith - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - This is like a female Goodbye Mr. Chips. Smith plays a teacher at a girls boarding school. She boasts about being in her prime and is completely devoted to her students. She starts having a romance with a man which causes the students to raise their eyebrows and there is a subplot where one of her students starts an affair with an older man. I didn't love the movie (I liked it much better than both versions of Goodbye Mr. Chips) but Smith elevates the material, she is the reason to watch the film.
1. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - This movie is pretty insane. It got 9 nominations but didn't get nominated for Best Picture, it actually holds the record for most nominations without a Best Picture nomination. It takes place during the Great Depression where poor people were hungry and desperate and rich people were starved for entertainment. So there is a dance marathon where people sign up to dance for 24 hours a day with a couple of brief breaks. People sit in the stands and watch these exhausted people suffer. Fonda plays one of the contestants and she's pretty much at the end of her rope. There's a pregnant woman in the contest and Fonda keeps telling her to get an abortion so it won't have to suffer through life. Fonda is fantastic, the marathon goes on for days and there are points where she is just sleepwalking (or sleep dancing) trying with every ounce of energy to stay on her feet. The whole movie is great and Fonda is the central focus.
In hindsight it's better that Maggie Smith won this year because Jane Fonda would go on to win 2 Oscars in the 70s, Smith would also win a 2nd in 1978. I'm voting for Jane Fonda here just because she was my favorite. If she does win here then she probably doesn't win for Klute (which is a performance I like just as much as this one). Or, she wins her 2nd Oscar for Klute and then there's no way she wins a 3rd for Coming Home so Jill Clayburgh can win for An Unmarried Woman.
Oscar Winner: Maggie Smith
My Vote: Jane Fonda
GABBY Winner: Jane Fonda
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5. Anthony Quayle - Anne Of The Thousand Days - I think sometimes the Academy watches a movie and gives a nomination to the oldest guy. Quayle plays Cardinal Wolsey and he's fine in the role but I could not care less about this movie. In all fairness, I wasn't paying close attention when I watched it because I felt that I had seen the movie 100 times before. Watch A Man For All Seasons instead and watch Orson Welles play the dude.
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5. Anthony Quayle - Anne Of The Thousand Days - I think sometimes the Academy watches a movie and gives a nomination to the oldest guy. Quayle plays Cardinal Wolsey and he's fine in the role but I could not care less about this movie. In all fairness, I wasn't paying close attention when I watched it because I felt that I had seen the movie 100 times before. Watch A Man For All Seasons instead and watch Orson Welles play the dude.
4. Elliot Gould - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - This is a swinging 60s movie about wife swapping. Robert Culp and Natalie Wood are married, they go to a hippie retreat and when they come back they are all about free love. Gould is married to Dyan Cannon and they are the couple's 'straight' friends. They smoke weed with them but are put off by the whole sharing sex partners thing. Possibly ironically, they are the most interesting characters. They have an argument about their friends and how they live their lives and then decide to go through with an orgy. Gould is dryly funny in the film and has probably the best scene in the film when he's psyching himself up for group sex.
3. Rupert Crosse - The Reivers - This is one of those Oscar facts that's sadly easy to believe. This is 1969 and Rupert Crosse is the first black actor nominated in this category. The Reivers is a jaunty carefree movie with an incredibly fun score by John Williams. Steve McQueen works for some rich guy who owns an automobile (cars were a new thing when this movie takes place). McQueen and a young boy end up stealing the car and going on a joyride. They find Crosse hiding in the backseat and he joins their crew. The role is not really substantial but Crosse brings an energy to the part that is unique. I was not familiar with Crosse's career and thought that he faded into obscurity after his nomination but sadly found out later that he died of lung cancer 4 years after.
2. Jack Nicholson - Easy Rider - I do not like Easy Rider. For about 45 minutes you're just watching Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride motorcycles. Then Nicholson enters the film and it feels like a movie, then he's gone and they take more drugs and it feels like an experimental student film. Jack is the best part of the movie. At one point in the film Fonda and Hopper get thrown in jail and when they wake up they meet Jack who is a lawyer thrown in the drunk tank. He rides around with them, tries weed for the first time and meets a sad end. He's a total scene stealer and my favorite part of the film.
1. Gig Young - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Young plays the emcee of the dance contest in the film. He cheers the contestants on and gets the crowd pumped out. At first you think he's a foreboding villain but as the movie rolls along we see him getting woken up from a drunken stupor and realize that he's just a guy. He runs the competition because it's his job not because he gets any kind of perverse pleasure from it. He does get some pleasure from it because he talks some of the contestants into performing sexual acts on him to get special privileges. It's a really interesting character in a fascinating film.
This is a pretty weak category. My favorite performance would probably be Nicholson but I don't want to vote for him knowing that he's going to have far better roles than this. Elliott Gould is a fun nomination but not really worth a win and Rupert Crosse would be a good winner but only because of his race. That leaves Gig Young and I'm perfectly fine with that. He was a veteran and had the best career of the 5 at the time. Tragic life story too, he was a huge alcoholic with mental problems. He died in a murder-suicide with his then wife. My favorite story was from Mel Brooks who hired Young to play The Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles, when they hung him upside down for his first scene he started vomiting and getting the shakes from not drinking. This in no way is why I'm voting for the guy but it adds color to my rationale.
Oscar Winner: Gig Young
My Vote: Gig Young
GABBY Winner: Gig Young
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5. Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy - So this movie is about a Texan who moves to New York City to become a male prostitute. On his first day he meets Sylvia Miles and asks to go back to her place. They have sex and then he asks for money. She didn't know he was a prostitute, she just thought he was attracted to her. She then asks him for money and he gives her 20 bucks. It's a really great scene but it is also her only scene. That's all she does in the movie, no way I can vote for her.
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5. Sylvia Miles - Midnight Cowboy - So this movie is about a Texan who moves to New York City to become a male prostitute. On his first day he meets Sylvia Miles and asks to go back to her place. They have sex and then he asks for money. She didn't know he was a prostitute, she just thought he was attracted to her. She then asks him for money and he gives her 20 bucks. It's a really great scene but it is also her only scene. That's all she does in the movie, no way I can vote for her.
4. Goldie Hawn - Cactus Flower - This comedy farce opens with Goldie Hawn attempting suicide. She turns the gas on in her apartment and goes to sleep. She is saved by her neighbor and tells him why she's trying to kill herself. She's been in a relationship with a married man and is tired of feeling like the other woman. Thing is, the man is not really married, he told her he was because he didn't want a commitment. The suicide attempt motivates him to marry Hawn but she wants to make sure his wife is okay with all of this. So now the guy (played by Walter Matthau) has to get his secretary to pretend to be his wife to talk to his fake mistress and get him out of the initial lie he told. The movie is very funny but I had a problem with Hawn's performance. She's appropriately ditsy playing a young dumb blonde but I never saw anything in her performance that would lead Matthau to fall in love with her in the first place. This may have been a fault with the script or with Matthau's performance but if Hawn had another level to her character other than just being a cute and dumb she could have communicated that better.
3. Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Speaking of ditsy blondes, those are the kinds of roles that I usually associate with Dyan Cannon. This is the exact opposite and she gives a layered and honest performance. She plays Elliot Gould's wife and she is at first upset that Robert Culp had an affair and that they are willing to share themselves with multiple sex partners. Then, after talking with her therapist in a great scene, she decides to go along with the whole free love idea. Cannon is really good in the film but I can't vote for her simply because it's an ensemble film and to single out one performance feels weird.
2. Catherine Burns - Last Summer - Watching every Oscar nominated film really makes me realize that I dislike certain genres of film. Costume dramas, period pieces and biopics were already on that list but I think I can add coming of age drama and slice of life film to that list too. Last Summer is about 3 teenagers vacationing on Fire Island. They smoke pot, explore their sexuality and rescue a seagull. Also on the island is a 15 year old girl played by Catherine Burns, and she is easily the best part of the film. She's annoying and tags along to their fun. Eventually one of the teens starts to like her but they basically mock and humiliate her every chance they get. This all accumulates to the final scene where they gang rape her. Then the end credits roll. That's how the movie ends, a shot of Burns's face after she has been pinned down and raped. The movie is interesting if not captivating. Burns is really good in the movie, she was 24 years old when she played the part and she is completely believable as an annoying teenager. I wish the movie did more with her character.
1. Sussanah York - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - York plays one of the dancers in the depression era dance marathon. At first she is just one of the contestants and fills out the ensemble. Something is missing from her personal items and she starts to freak out and then she starts to suffer a nervous breakdown. She's having sex with the emcee and then tries to have sex with Jane Fonda's partner. Then one of the contestants dies and York has a scene where she falls apart in the shower because she's freaked out that she touched a dead body.
This is another weak category and my vote for York is mainly a vote for the movie I liked the most. York is really good in the film but her part is such that you might forget about her after the movie is over. But I have reasons not to vote for everybody else. Sylvia Miles is only in one scene, I didn't care for Goldie Hawn's performance, Dyan Cannon is a part of an ensemble, I didn't like Catherine Burns's movie. Sussanah York was good in a great film so she gets my vote.
Oscar Winner: Goldie Hawn
My Vote: Sussanah York
GABBY Winner: Sussanah York
Best Director
John Schlesinger wins for Midnight Cowboy which is the best choice in the category considering that George Roy Hill is gonna win in 4 years for The Sting. Sydney Pollack would have also been a good choice for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? but he's gonna win in 1985 so everything worked out.
Best Original Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid is easily the best movie in the Original Screenplay category, up against Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch and The Damned. Midnight Cowboy is easily the best film in the Adapted Screenplay category, up against They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Goodbye, Columbus, Z and Anne Of The Thousand Days.
Best Original Score/Adaptation Score/Song
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid wins Best Original Score. Not a bad decision but I would have voted for John Williams whose music is easily the best part of The Reivers. Once Upon A Time In The West would have been the obvious choice but wasn't nominated. Hello, Dolly! wins the now defunct Adaptation Score category which is where the Oscars honored the best musical of the year. What a sorry state of nominated films this is, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Paint Your Wagon and Sweet Charity. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? scored a nod here as almost all of the music was reworkings of depression era songs. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid also wins for Best Song and Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, easily the best choice in the category, up against forgettable songs from The Sterile Cuckoo, True Grit, The Happy Ending and The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.
Best Sound
The sound in Hello, Dolly! beats the hail of gunfire in Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid
Best Foreign Language Film
I would hope Z would win. It wouldn't make sense if a movie was nominated for Best Foreign Film and Best Picture and lost both.
Best Costume Design
Anne Of The Thousand Days wins an extremely weak category. Hello, Dolly!, Gaily, Gaily, Sweet Charity and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Best Art Direction
Hello, Dolly! wins another weak category including Anne Of The Thousand Days, Gaily, Gaily, Sweet Charity and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Cinematography
Conrad Hall rightfully wins for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. I have absolutely no idea why Anne Of The Thousand Days, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Hello, Dolly! and Marooned were even nominated. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Wild Bunch were on Oscar's radar but missed out on an easy nomination.
Best Film Editing
Z is an incredibly well edited film. I would have voted for Midnight Cowboy but I have no problems with the outcome.
Best Visual Effects
Marooned wins making it the only Oscar winning film to ever be featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The other nominee Krakatoa, East Of Java is also worthy of such treatment. Both movies are fairly silly.
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Best Director
John Schlesinger wins for Midnight Cowboy which is the best choice in the category considering that George Roy Hill is gonna win in 4 years for The Sting. Sydney Pollack would have also been a good choice for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? but he's gonna win in 1985 so everything worked out.
Best Original Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid is easily the best movie in the Original Screenplay category, up against Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Easy Rider, The Wild Bunch and The Damned. Midnight Cowboy is easily the best film in the Adapted Screenplay category, up against They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Goodbye, Columbus, Z and Anne Of The Thousand Days.
Best Original Score/Adaptation Score/Song
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid wins Best Original Score. Not a bad decision but I would have voted for John Williams whose music is easily the best part of The Reivers. Once Upon A Time In The West would have been the obvious choice but wasn't nominated. Hello, Dolly! wins the now defunct Adaptation Score category which is where the Oscars honored the best musical of the year. What a sorry state of nominated films this is, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Paint Your Wagon and Sweet Charity. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? scored a nod here as almost all of the music was reworkings of depression era songs. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid also wins for Best Song and Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, easily the best choice in the category, up against forgettable songs from The Sterile Cuckoo, True Grit, The Happy Ending and The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.
Best Sound
The sound in Hello, Dolly! beats the hail of gunfire in Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid
Best Foreign Language Film
I would hope Z would win. It wouldn't make sense if a movie was nominated for Best Foreign Film and Best Picture and lost both.
Best Costume Design
Anne Of The Thousand Days wins an extremely weak category. Hello, Dolly!, Gaily, Gaily, Sweet Charity and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Best Art Direction
Hello, Dolly! wins another weak category including Anne Of The Thousand Days, Gaily, Gaily, Sweet Charity and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Best Cinematography
Conrad Hall rightfully wins for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. I have absolutely no idea why Anne Of The Thousand Days, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Hello, Dolly! and Marooned were even nominated. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Wild Bunch were on Oscar's radar but missed out on an easy nomination.
Best Film Editing
Z is an incredibly well edited film. I would have voted for Midnight Cowboy but I have no problems with the outcome.
Best Visual Effects
Marooned wins making it the only Oscar winning film to ever be featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The other nominee Krakatoa, East Of Java is also worthy of such treatment. Both movies are fairly silly.
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