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Best Picture - Lawrence Turman, Producer Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, the awards were postponed to two days later due to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. [1] Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony. This year, due to the waning popularity of black-and ...
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).
Walter Mirisch accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night at the 40th Academy Awards. Presented by Julie Andrews and hosted by Bob Hope.
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.
From its eleven nominations, the film won only five awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Musical Score, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Sound) and a sixth Honorary Technical Award for Onna White's choreography.
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night. In the Heat of the Night also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Film Editing (Hal Ashby), Sound (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department), and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Stirling Silliphant).
