1970 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

45 films were recognised at the 1970 Academy Awards, across 22 categories. 14 of them took home at least one award.

The biggest winner of the year was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with 4 awards, ahead of Hello, Dolly! with 3. The categories below run from Actor, Actor in a Supporting Role and Actress to the smaller prizes, and in every one the winner is listed first, followed by the other nominees.

Each title links to the film's full award history at all four awards, and the links at the bottom step to the previous and next ceremony.

Last updated August 12, 2026

Actor

True Grit(1969)
John Wayne
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Richard Burton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)
Peter O'Toole
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Jon Voight

Actor in a Supporting Role

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Gig Young
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Anthony Quayle
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969)
Elliott Gould
Easy Rider(1969)
Jack Nicholson
The Reivers(1969)
Rupert Crosse

Actress

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)
Maggie Smith
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Genevieve Bujold
The Happy Ending(1969)
Jean Simmons
The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)
Liza Minnelli
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Jane Fonda

Actress in a Supporting Role

Cactus Flower(1969)
Goldie Hawn
Winner
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969)
Dyan Cannon
Last Summer(1969)
Catherine Burns
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Sylvia Miles
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Susannah York

Art Direction

Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Art Direction: John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith, Herman Blumenthal; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins, Raphael Bretton
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Art Direction: Maurice Carter, Lionel Couch; Set Decoration: Patrick McLoughlin
Gaily, Gaily(1969)
Art Direction: Robert Boyle, George B. Chan; Set Decoration: Edward Boyle, Carl Biddiscombe
Sweet Charity(1969)
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Art Direction: Harry Horner; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy

Best Picture

Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Jerome Hellman, Producer
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Hal B. Wallis, Producer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
John Foreman, Producer
Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Ernest Lehman, Producer
Z(1969)
Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, Producers

Cinematography

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
Conrad Hall
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Arthur Ibbetson
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969)
Charles B. Lang
Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Harry Stradling
Marooned(1969)
Daniel Fapp

Costume Design

Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Margaret Furse
Winner
Gaily, Gaily(1969)
Ray Aghayan
Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Irene Sharaff
Sweet Charity(1969)
Edith Head
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Donfeld

Directing

Midnight Cowboy(1969)
John Schlesinger
Winner
Alice's Restaurant(1969)
Arthur Penn
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
George Roy Hill
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Sydney Pollack
Z(1969)
Costa-Gavras

Documentary (Feature)

Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life(1969)
Bernard Chevry, Producer
Winner
Before the Mountain Was Moved(1970)
Robert K. Sharpe, Producer
In the Year of the Pig(1968)
Emile de Antonio, Producer
The Olympics in Mexico(1969)
Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
The Wolf Men(1969)
Irwin Rosten, Producer

Documentary (Short Subject)

Czechoslovakia 1968(1969)
Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco, Producers
Winner
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer(1969)
Donald Wrye, Producer
Jenny is a Good Thing(1969)
Joan Horvath, Producer
Leo Beuerman(1969)
Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser, Producers
The Magic Machines(1969)
Joan Keller Stern, Producer

Film Editing

Z(1969)
"Z" Françoise Bonnot
Winner
Hello, Dolly!(1969)
William Reynolds
Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Hugh A. Robertson
The Secret of Santa Vittoria(1969)
William Lyon, Earle Herdan
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Fredric Steinkamp

International Feature Film

Z(1969)
Algeria
Winner
Adalen 31(1969)
Sweden
My Night at Maud's(1969)
France
The Battle of Neretva(1969)
Yugoslavia
The Brothers Karamazov(1969)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Music (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a musical])

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
Burt Bacharach
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Georges Delerue
The Reivers(1969)
John Williams
The Secret of Santa Vittoria(1969)
Ernest Gold
The Wild Bunch(1969)
Jerry Fielding

Music (Score of a Musical Picture--original or adaptation)

Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Adaptation score by Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman
Winner
Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)
Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by John Williams
Paint Your Wagon(1969)
Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle
Sweet Charity(1969)
Adaptation score by Cy Coleman
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
Adaptation score by John Green and Albert Woodbury

Music (Song--Original for the Picture)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
Winner
The Happy Ending(1969)
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? in "The Happy Ending" Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)
Jean in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Music and Lyrics by Rod McKuen
The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)
Come Saturday Morning in "The Sterile Cuckoo" Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Dory Previn
True Grit(1969)
True Grit in "True Grit" Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Don Black

Sound

Hello, Dolly!(1969)
Jack Solomon, Murray Spivack
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
John Aldred
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
William Edmondson, David Dockendorf
Gaily, Gaily(1969)
Robert Martin, Clem Portman
Marooned(1969)
Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi

Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

Midnight Cowboy(1969)
Waldo Salt
Winner
Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
Screenplay by John Hale, Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove
Goodbye, Columbus(1969)
Arnold Schulman
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)
James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
Z(1969)
Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras

Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on material not previously published or produced)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
William Goldman
Winner
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969)
Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
Easy Rider(1969)
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
The Damned(1969)
Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
The Wild Bunch(1969)
Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah

Short Subject (Cartoon)

It's Tough to Be a Bird(1969)
Ward Kimball, Producer
Winner
Of Men and Demons(1969)
John Hubley and Faith Hubley, Producers
Walking(1968)
Ryan Larkin, Producer

Short Subject (Live Action)

The Magic Machines(1969)
Joan Keller Stern, Producer
Winner
Blake(1969)
Doug Jackson, Producer
People Soup(1969)
Marc Merson, Producer

Special Visual Effects

Marooned(1969)
Robbie Robertson
Winner
Krakatoa, East of Java(1968)
Eugene Lourie, Alex Weldon