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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Produced by Gower Champion Directed by
Gower Champion Highlights Best Picture Oliver! Most awards Oliver! (5) Most nominations
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41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968. They were the first Oscars
to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, and the first with no host since the 11th Academy
Awards. Oliver! became the only Best Picture winner to have received a G-rating prior to winning, the ratings
system having replaced the old Hays Code on November 1, 1968 (though a number of Best Picture winners
have received the rating retroactively). It was the last British film to win Best Picture until Chariots of Fire in
1981, and the last musical to win until Chicago in 2002. The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—
tie for Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand shared the award, for their performances in The
Lion in Winter and Funny Girl, respectively. Hepburn became the second actress and third performer to win an
acting Oscar two years in a row (having won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner the previous year), after Luise
Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth), and Spencer Tracy in 1937 (Captains
Courageous) and 1938 (Boys Town). She also became the first to win three acting Oscars in lead categories (an
achievement later matched by Daniel Day-Lewis and Frances McDormand). Stanley Kubrick received his only
career Oscar this year, for Best Visual Effects as special effects director and designer for 2001: A Space
Odyssey.[1] Cliff Robertson's performance in Charly, which had received a mixed-to-negative reception from
critics and audiences, engendered controversy when he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Less than two
weeks after the ceremony, TIME mentioned the Academy's generalized concerns over "excessive and vulgar
solicitation of votes" and said "many members agreed that Robertson's award was based more on promotion
than on performance."[2] A few people griped over the failure of Paul Newman to get an Academy Award
nomination for his direction of the film Rachel, Rachel, despite him receiving a Best Director award from the
New York Film Critics Circle.[3] Also notable this year was the only instance to date of the Academy revoking
an Oscar after the ceremony: Young Americans won the award for Best Documentary Feature Film, but on May
7, 1969, it was discovered that it had premiered in October 1967, thus making it ineligible. Journey into Self, the
first runner-up, was awarded the Oscar the following day. A minor controversy was created when, in a sketch
on The Tonight Show, which was recorded three hours before the awards ceremony, Johnny Carson and Buddy
Hackett announced Oliver! as the winner for Best Picture and Jack Albertson as Best Supporting Actor.
Columnist Frances Drake claimed that most observers believed Carson and Hackett "were playing a huge
practical joke or happened to make a lucky guess".[4] Referring to it as "The Great Carson Hoax",
PricewaterhouseCoopers stated in a 2004 press release that it was "later proven that Carson and Hackett made a
few lucky guesses for their routine, dispelling rumors of a security breach and keeping the integrity of the
balloting process intact".[5] Carson would go on to host the ceremony five times. Winners and nominees[edit]
Cliff Robertson, Best Actor winner Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress co-winner Barbra Streisand, Best Actress
co-winner Jack Albertson, Best Supporting Actor winner Ruth Gordon, Best Supporting Actress winner Mel
Brooks, Best Original Screenplay winner Walt Disney, Best Animated Short Film winner John Barry, Best
Original Score (Not a Musical) winner Michel Legrand, Best Original Song co-winner Stanley Kubrick, Best
Visual Effects winner Nominees were announced on February 24, 1969. Winners are listed first, highlighted in
boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[6][7] Best Picture Best Director Oliver! – John Woolf,
producer‡ Funny Girl – Ray Stark, producer The Lion in Winter – Martin Poll, producer Rachel, Rachel – Paul
Newman, producer Romeo and Juliet – John Brabourne and Anthony Havelock-Allan, producers Carol Reed –
Oliver!‡ Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers Anthony Harvey –
The Lion in Winter Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet Best Actor Best Actress Cliff Robertson – Charly
as Charly Gordon‡ Alan Arkin – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer Alan Bates – The Fixer as Yakov
Bok Ron Moody – Oliver! as Fagin Peter O'Toole – The Lion in Winter as King Henry II of England
Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine‡ Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl as Fanny
Brice‡ Patricia Neal – The Subject Was Roses as Nettie Cleary Vanessa Redgrave – Isadora as Isadora Duncan
Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel as Rachel Cameron Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Jack
Albertson – The Subject Was Roses as John Cleary‡ Seymour Cassel – Faces as Chet Daniel Massey – Star! as
Noël Coward Jack Wild – Oliver! as Jack Dawkins ("The Artful Dodger") Gene Wilder – The Producers as Leo
Bloom Ruth Gordon – Rosemary's Baby as Minnie Castevet‡ Lynn Carlin – Faces as Maria Frost Sondra
Locke – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick Kelly Kay Medford – Funny Girl as Rose Stern Borach Estelle
Parsons – Rachel, Rachel as Calla Mackie Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Best
Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium The Producers – Mel Brooks‡ 2001: A Space Odyssey –
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke Th
**Multiple Choice Questions:**
1. Who won the Best Actress award at the 41st Academy Awards?
A) Katharine Hepburn
B) Barbra Streisand
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above
**Correct choice: C) Both A and B (Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand)**

2. Which film won the Best Picture award at the 41st Academy Awards?
A) Funny Girl
B) The Lion in Winter
C) Oliver!
D) Rachel, Rachel
**Correct choice: C) Oliver!**

**Fill-in-the-Blank Questions:**

3. Katharine Hepburn won the Best Actress award for her performance in "The Lion in Winter" and Barbra
Streisand won for her role in "Funny Girl."

**Correct word: Funny Girl**

4. Stanley Kubrick received his only career Oscar for Best Visual Effects for his work on "2001: A Space
Odyssey."

**Correct word: 2001: A Space Odyssey**

**Works Cited:**

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Academy_Awards
2. https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1969
3. https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1969
4. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/41st-academy-awards
5. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Academy-Award