41st Annual Academy Awards
April 14, 1969

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Your Hosts: The Friends of Oscar --
Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Jane Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Walter Matthau, Diahann Carroll, Tony Curtis, Rosalind Russell & Burt Lancaster

Televised over ABC
Supporting Actor:Frank Sinatra
Art Direction:Natalie Wood
Honorary Award to John Chambers:Walter Matthau
Documentary Awards:Diahann Carroll & Tony Curtis
Costume Design:Jane Fonda w. The Soul Rascals & dancers
Danilo Donati was not present at the ceremony. Jane Fonda presented the Award to the man dancing "Romeo" in the number.
Sound:Rosalind Russell
Cinematography:Ingrid Bergman
Scientific or Technical Awards:Burt Lancaster & Natalie Wood
Supporting Actress:Tony Curtis
Foreign Film:Jane Fonda
Writer-director Sergei Bondarchuk was not present at the ceremony. Actress Lyudmila Savelyeva accepted the Award on his behalf.
Special Effects:Diahann Carroll & Burt Lancaster
Scoring of a Musical Picture:Marni Nixon & Henry Mancini
Adapted Screenplay:Rosalind Russell
Original Screenplay:Frank Sinatra & Don Rickles
Actor:Burt Lancaster
Cliff Robertson was not present at the ceremony, because he was filming in the Philippines. Frank Sinatra accepted the Award on his behalf.
Short Subjects:Jane Fonda & Tony Curtis (& The Pink Panther)
Since winner Walt Disney had died in 1966, director Wolfgang Reitherman accepted the Award on his behalf.
Honorary Award to Onna White:Mark Lester & Diahann Carroll
Film Editing:Walter Matthau
Song:Frank Sinatra
Original Score:Rosalind Russell
Director:The Female "Friends of Oscar"
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:Bob Hope
Actress:Ingrid Bergman
Co-winner Katharine Hepburn was not present at the ceremony. Director Anthony Harvey accepted the Award on her behalf.
Best Picture:Sidney Poitier
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"-- Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Paula Kelly and The UCLA Marching Band
"For Love of Ivy"-- Abbey Lincoln
"Funny Girl"-- Aretha Franklin
"Star!"-- Frank Sinatra
"The Windmills of Your Mind"-- José Feliciano

Barbra Streisand with her Oscar® for Best Actress
Cliff Robertson receiving his Oscar® for Best Actor from Gregory Peck two months after the Ceremonies. (Robertson was on location in the Philippines when the Awards were presented.)
Ruth Gordon receiving her Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress
Show Producer & Director:Gower Champion
Telecast Producer & Director for ABC:Richard Dunlap