1968 (41st Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1968. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne, Producers.Best Actor
Best Actress
Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora, Robert and Raymond Hakim-Universal, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, France)Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
The Battle of Algiers, Igor Film-Casbah Film Production; Allied Artists. (Italy, Algeria) Gillo Pontecorvo.Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Franco Zeffirelli.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by John Box and Terence Marsh; set decoration by Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston.The Shoes of the Fisherman, George Englund Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno.Star!, Robert Wise Production; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Boris Leven; set decoration by Walter M. Scott and Howard Bristol.2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Tony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernie Archer.War and Peace, Mosfilm Studios Production; Walter Reade-Continental Distributing. (Soviet Union) Art direction by Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov; set decoration by G. Koshelev and V. Uvarov.Cinematography
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Pasqualino De Santis.Costume Design
Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Danilo Donati.Documentary
(Feature)
Young Americans, The Young Americans Production. Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, Producers. [Declared ineligible; see note below.]NOTE: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
(Short Subject)
The Revolving Door, Vision Associates Production for The American Foundation Institute of Corrections. Lee R. Bobker, Producer.A Space to Grow, Office of Economic Opportunity for Project Upward Bound. Thomas P. Kelly, Jr., Producer.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
The Boys of Paul Street, Bohgros Films-Mafilm Studio I Production. (Hungary, USA)The Firemen’s Ball, Barrandov Film Studios Production. (Czechoslovakia, Italy)The Girl with the Pistol, Documento Film Production. (Italy)Stolen Kisses, Les Films du Carrosse-Les Productions Artistes Associes Production. (France)War and Peace, Mosfilm Studios Production; Walter Reade-Continental Distributing. (Soviet Union)Music
(Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical])
The Fox, Raymond Stross-Motion Pictures International Production; Claridge Pictures. (Canada) Lalo Schifrin.(Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)
The Young Girls of Rochefort, Mag Bodard-Gilbert de Goldschmidt-Parc Film-Madeleine Films Production; Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. (France) Music and adaptation score by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Jacques Demy.(Song [Original for the Picture])
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Warfield Productions, Ltd.; United Artists. (UK, USA) Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.For Love of Ivy from For Love of Ivy, American Broadcasting Companies-Palomar Pictures International Production; Cinerama. Music by Quincy Jones; lyrics by Bob Russell.Funny Girl from Funny Girl, Rastar Productions; Columbia. Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill.Star! from Star!, Robert Wise Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen; lyrics by Sammy Cahn.The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair, Mirisch-Simkoe-Solar Production; United Artists. Music by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.Short Subjects
(Cartoons)
The House That Jack Built, National Film Board of Canada; Columbia. (Canada) Wolf Koenig and Jim MacKay, Producers.(Live Action)
The Dove, Coe-Davis Limited; Schoenfeld Film Distributing Corporation. George Coe, Sidney Davis and Anthony Lover, Producers.Duo, National Film Board of Canada; Columbia. (Canada)Robert Kennedy Remembered, Guggenheim Productions; National General Pictures. Charles Guggenheim, Producer.Sound
Bullitt, Solar Production; Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department.Special Visual Effects
Writing
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)
The Battle of Algiers, Igor Film-Casbah Film Production; Allied Artists. (Italy, Algeria) Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo.Hot Millions, Mildred Freed Alberg Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Ira Wallach and Peter Ustinov.2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.Honorary Award
To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!. [ [Statuette]](Makeup)
To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes. [ [Statuette]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class I)
To Philip V. Palmquist of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., to Dr. Herbert Meyer of the Motion Picture and Television Research Center, and to Charles D. Staffell of the Rank Organization for the development of a successful embodiment of the reflex background projection system for composite cinematography.To Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.(Class II)
To Donald W. Norwood for the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.To Eastman Kodak Company and Producers Service Company for the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.To Edmund M. DiGiulio, Niels G. Petersen and Norman S. Hughes of the Cinema Product Development Company for the design and application of a conversion which makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras.To Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc. for the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.To Eastman Kodak Company for the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera.To Todd-AO and Mitchell Camera Company for the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera.(Class III)
To Carl W. Hauge and Edward H. Reichard of Consolidated Film Industries and E. Michael Meahl and Roy J. Ridenour of Ramtronics for engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps.To Eastman Kodak Company for a new direct positive film and to Consolidated Film Industries for the application of this film to the making of post-production work prints.