Academy Awards®
Awards for 1968
Picture
Anthony Havelock-Allan - Producer, Lord John Brabourne - Producer, ROMEO AND JULIET
Ray Stark - Producer, FUNNY GIRL
Martin Poll - Producer, THE LION IN WINTER
* John Woolf - Producer, OLIVER!
Paul Newman - Producer, RACHEL, RACHEL
Actor
Alan Arkin, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Alan Bates, THE FIXER
Ron Moody, OLIVER!
* Cliff Robertson, CHARLY
Peter O'Toole, THE LION IN WINTER
Actress
* Katharine Hepburn, THE LION IN WINTER
Co-winner with Barbra Streisand, for FUNNY GIRL.
Patricia Neal, THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
Vanessa Redgrave, ISADORA
* Barbra Streisand, FUNNY GIRL
Co-winner with Katharine Hepburn, for THE LION IN WINTER.
Joanne Woodward, RACHEL, RACHEL
Supporting Actor
* Jack Albertson, THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
Seymour Cassel, FACES
Daniel Massey, STAR!
Jack Wild, OLIVER!
Gene Wilder, THE PRODUCERS
Supporting Actress
Lynn Carlin, FACES
* Ruth Gordon, ROSEMARY'S BABY
Sondra Locke, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
Kay Medford, FUNNY GIRL
Estelle Parsons, RACHEL, RACHEL
Director
Anthony Harvey, THE LION IN WINTER
Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Gillo Pontecorvo, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
* Sir Carol Reed, OLIVER!
Franco Zeffirelli, ROMEO AND JULIET
Writing - Story and Screenplay (Written Directly For The Screen)
Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo, THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
John Cassavetes, FACES
Ira Wallach, Sir Peter Ustinov, HOT MILLIONS
* Mel Brooks, THE PRODUCERS
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
* James Goldman, THE LION IN WINTER
Neil Simon, THE ODD COUPLE
Vernon Harris, OLIVER!
Stewart Stern, RACHEL, RACHEL
Roman Polanski, ROSEMARY'S BABY
Foreign Film
THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET
(Hungary)
THE FIREMEN'S BALL
(Czechoslovakia)
THE GIRL WITH THE PISTOL
(Italy)
STOLEN KISSES
(France)
* WAR AND PEACE
(U.S.S.R.)
Art Direction
Mikhail Bogdanov - Art Direction, Gennady Myasnikov - Art Direction, G. Koshelev - Set Decoration, V. Uvarov - Set Decoration, WAR AND PEACE
* John Box - Art Direction, Terence Marsh - Art Direction, Vernon Dixon - Set Decoration, Ken Muggleston - Set Decoration, OLIVER!
George W. Davis - Art Direction, Edward C. Carfagno - Art Direction, THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN
Boris Leven - Art Direction, Walter M. Scott - Set Decoration, Howard Bristol - Set Decoration, STAR!
Tony Masters - Art Direction, Harry Lange - Art Direction, Ernie Archer - Art Direction, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Cinematography
* Pasqualino De Santis, ROMEO AND JULIET
Harry Stradling, Sr., FUNNY GIRL
Daniel L. Fapp, ICE STATION ZEBRA
Oswald Morris, OLIVER!
Ernest Laszlo, STAR!
Costume Design
* Danilo Donati, ROMEO AND JULIET
Margaret Furse, THE LION IN WINTER
Phyllis Dalton, OLIVER!
Morton Haack, PLANET OF THE APES
Donald Brooks, STAR!
Documentary Feature
James Blue - Producer, A FEW NOTES ON OUR FOOD PROBLEM
* Bill McGaw - Producer, JOURNEY INTO SELF
William Cayton - Producer, THE LEGENDARY CHAMPIONS
David H. Sawyer - Producer, OTHER VOICES
Robert Cohn - Producer, Alex Grasshoff - Producer, YOUNG AMERICANS
Originally awarded the Oscar; then declared ineligible May 7, 1969 because first released during 1967.
Documentary Short Subject
Fali Bilimoria - Producer, THE HOUSE THAT ANANDA BUILT
Lee R. Bobker - Producer, THE REVOLVING DOOR
Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. - Producer, A SPACE TO GROW
Dan E. Weisburd - Producer, A WAY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS
* Saul Bass - Producer, WHY MAN CREATES
Film Editing
* Frank P. Keller, BULLITT
Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands, FUNNY GIRL
Frank Bracht, THE ODD COUPLE
Ralph Kemplen, OLIVER!
Eve Newman, Fred Feitshans, WILD IN THE STREETS
Music - Original Score (For a Motion Picture Not a Musical)
(formerly Original Music Score)
Lalo Schifrin, THE FOX
* John Barry, THE LION IN WINTER
Jerry Goldsmith, PLANET OF THE APES
Alex North, THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN
Michel Legrand, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
Music - Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation)
(formerly Music - Scoring of Music (Adaptation or Treatment))
Ray Heindorf, FINIAN'S RAINBOW
Walter Scharf, FUNNY GIRL
* John Green, OLIVER!
Lennie Hayton, STAR!
Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy, THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT
Music - Song (Original to the Picture)
(formerly Music - Song)
Richard M. Sherman - Music & Lyrics, Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyrics, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
Quincy Jones - Music, Bob Russell - Lyrics, FOR LOVE OF IVY
"For Love of Ivy"
Jule Styne - Music, Bob Merrill - Lyrics, FUNNY GIRL
"Funny Girl"
James Van Heusen - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyrics, STAR!
"Star!"
* Michel Legrand - Music, Alan Bergman - Lyrics, Marilyn Bergman - Lyrics, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
"The Windmills of Your Mind"
Animated Short
Wolf Koenig - Producer, Jim MacKay - Producer, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
Jimmy Murakami - Producer, THE MAGIC PEAR TREE
John Hubley - Producer, Faith Hubley - Producer, WINDY DAY
* Walt Disney - Producer, WINNIE THE POOH AND THE BLUSTERY DAY
Short Subjects - Live Action Subjects
George Coe - Producer, Sidney Davis - Producer, Anthony Lover - Producer, THE DOVE
National Film Board of Canada, DUO
John Astin - Producer, PRELUDE
* Charles E. Guggenheim - Producer, ROBERT KENNEDY REMEMBERED
Sound
Seven Arts Studio Sound Department, BULLITT
Seven Arts Studio Sound Department, FINIAN'S RAINBOW
Columbia Studio Sound Department, FUNNY GIRL
* Shepperton Studio Sound Department, OLIVER!
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, STAR!
Sound Effects
This award discontinued 1968-1981.
Special Visual Effects
Hal Millar, Joseph McMillan Johnson, ICE STATION ZEBRA
* Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Class I (Statuette)
* Philip V. Palmquist (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company)
Dr. Herbert Meyer (Motion Picture and Television Research Center)
Charles D. Staffell (Rank Organization)
For the development of a successful embodiment of the reflex background projection system for composite cinematography.
* Eastman Kodak Company, For the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.
Class II (Plaque)
* Donald W. Norwood, For the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.
* Eastman Kodak Company, Producers Service Company, For the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.
* Edmund M. DiGiulio (Cinema Product Development Company)
Niels G. Petersen (Cinema Product Development Company)
Norman S. Hughes (Cinema Product Development Company)
For the design and application of a conversion which makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras.
* Optical Coating Laboratories Inc.
For the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.
* Eastman Kodak Company, For the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.
* Panavision Incorporated, For the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera.
* Todd-AO
Mitchell Camera Company, For the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera.
Class III (Citation)
* Carl W. Hauge (Consolidated Film Industries)
Edward H. Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries)
E. Michael Meahl (Ramtronics)
Roy J. Ridenour (Ramtronics)
For engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps.
* Eastman Kodak Company - Development, Consolidated Film Industries - Application, For a new direct positive film and the application of this film to the making of post-production work prints.
Honorary and Other Awards
* John Chambers, PLANET OF THE APES
For his outstanding makeup achievement for PLANET OF THE APES. Winner presented a Statuette.
* Onna White, OLIVER!
For her outstanding choreography achievement for OLIVER! Winner presented a Statuette.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1968.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
* Martha Raye,