40th Academy Awards

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40th Academy Awards
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Date Wednesday, 10 April 1968
(originally scheduled for Monday, 8 April)
Site Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Host Bob Hope
Producer Arthur Freed
Director Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture In the Heat of the Night
Most awards In the Heat of the Night (5)
Most nominations Bonnie and Clyde and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (10)
TV in the United States
Network ABC

The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for 8 April 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, 10 April 1968, because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony.

Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films, the awards for cinematography, art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome. The Best Picture nominees were an eclectic group of films reflecting the chaos of their era. The event was the first one since the 1948 awards show to feature film clips from the Best Picture nominated films.

This year's nominations also marked the first time that three different films were nominated for the "Top Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. The three films were Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. However, the winner of Best Picture was producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison's thriller/mystery film, In the Heat of the Night (with seven nominations and five wins – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound).

The Graduate is, as of the 87th Academy Awards, the last film to win Best Director and nothing else.

Due to an all-out push by Academy President Gregory Peck, 18 of the 20 acting nominees were present at the ceremony. Only Katharine Hepburn and the late Spencer Tracy, who was nominated posthumously, were missing.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[1]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
Best Original Score Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Best Original Song Best Costume Design
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Sound Mixing Best Sound Effects
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Gregory Peck

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Alfred Hitchcock

Honorary Oscar

Arthur Freed was presented for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts.

Trivia

Multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name Role
Hank Simms Announcer for the 40th Academy Awards
Gregory Peck (AMPAS President) Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Bill Miller Explained the eligibility and voting rules to the public
Carol Channing Presenter of the award for Best Sound
Patty Duke Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Dustin Hoffman
Katharine Ross
Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
Macdonald Carey
Diahann Carroll
Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards
Robert Morse
Barbara Rush
Presenters of the Documentary Awards
Eva Marie Saint Presenter of the award for Best Costume Design
Bob Hope (host) Presenter of the Honorary Award to Arthur Freed
Natalie Wood Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
Richard Crenna
Elke Sommer
Presenters of the award for Best Sound Effects
Walter Matthau Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Edith Evans Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Rosalind Russell Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Gregory Peck
Danny Kaye Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Rock Hudson
Shirley Jones
Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Bob Hope Presenter of the Academy Awards' history montage
Angie Dickinson
Gene Kelly
Presenters of the Music Awards
Barbra Streisand Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
Sammy Davis Jr. Accepted Leslie Bricusse's award on his behalf
Robert Wise Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Leslie Caron Presenter of the award for Best Director
Claire Bloom
Rod Steiger
Presenters of the Writing Awards
Audrey Hepburn Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Sidney Poitier Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Julie Andrews Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name Role Performed
Elmer Bernstein Musical arranger
Conductor
Orchestral
Louis Armstrong Performer "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book
Lainie Kazan Performer "The Eyes of Love" from Banning
Sérgio Mendes
Brasil '66
Performer "The Look of Love" from Casino Royale
Sammy Davis Jr. Performer "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle
Angela Lansbury Performer "Thoroughly Modern Millie" from Thoroughly Modern Millie)[2]
Academy Awards Orchestra Performers "Hooray for Hollywood/There's No Business like Show Business" (orchestral) during the closing credits

See also

References

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  2. Angela Lansbury performing "Thoroughly Modern Millie" on show on YouTube

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