42nd Academy Awards

The ceremony

This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the ABC television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (countries which had broadcast the event since 1953, and carried it live since 1964), only two South American countries, Chile and Brazil, roughly in the Oscars' time zone, were interested in the live coverage. The Chilean television rights to the Oscars were sold by ABC International to Televisión Nacional de Chile while the Brazilian rights were sold to TV Tupi. The latter country's rights to the TV broadcast of the Oscars were moved to a joint venture of TV Bandeirantes and TV Record.

Since at the time television standards conversion was difficult, about 50 other countries broadcast the Oscars on a delay. Furthermore, in Europe, most TV broadcasters signed off at or just after midnight; thus the Oscars were not broadcast live and were recorded on film and then shipped to broadcasters with a minimum four-day delay from the awards' broadcast date. An early attempt to change the Academy Awards presentation's start time to 1 p.m. to fit European television audiences was rejected by AMPAS executives.

In terms of performances, in-between presenting the documentary awards, Bob Hope and Fred Astaire discussed how Astaire had never danced on the Academy Awards broadcast before, with Astaire claiming to have "given it [dancing] up" the previous year. Cuing the orchestra, Hope then left the stage as Astaire began an ‘‘impromptu’’ dance performance (actually scripted and rehearsed), first in a modern jazz style before ending with traditional tap dancing (this would not be Astaire's final dance performance as he would dance in the film That's Entertainment, Part II six years later). They Shoot Horses, Don't They? holds the record for having the most nominations for a film without a Best Picture nomination, receiving 9 nominations.

Cary Grant's award was described as the most popular of the evening; the audience was described as having "went wild" over his receiving the Academy Honorary Award.

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 16, 1970. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Honorary Award

• To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• George Jessel

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Anne of the Thousand Days
• 9 nominations: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• 7 nominations: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hello, Dolly! and Midnight Cowboy
• 5 nominations: Z
• 4 nominations: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• 3 nominations: Gaily, Gaily, Marooned and Sweet Charity
• 2 nominations: Easy Rider, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Happy Ending, The Magic Machines, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Reivers, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Sterile Cuckoo, True Grit and The Wild Bunch

The following films received multiple awards.

• 4 wins: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• 3 wins: Hello, Dolly! and Midnight Cowboy
• 2 wins: Z

Presenters and performers

Source:

• Fred Astaire (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress and Documentary Awards)
• Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Sound, Best Costume Design and Best Song Original for the Picture)
• Elmer Bernstein (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation)
• Claudia Cardinale (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film)
• Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Elliott Gould (Presenter: Best Sound)
• Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Documentary Awards)
• James Earl Jones (Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
• Myrna Loy (Presenter: Best Short Subjects, Best Art Direction and Best Director)
• Ali MacGraw (Presenter: Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
• Barbara McNair (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Non-Musical))
• Cliff Robertson (Presenter: Best Actress, Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) & Short Subjects Awards)
• Katharine Ross (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
• Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to Cary Grant)
• Barbra Streisand (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Jon Voight (Presenter: Best Art Direction and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
• Shani Wallis (Presenter: Best Original Score for a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation)
• John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Raquel Welch (Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects)

Performers

• Glen Campbell ("True Grit" from True Grit)
• Michel Legrand ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending)
• Lou Rawls ("Jean" from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
• The Sandpipers ("Come Saturday Morning" from The Sterile Cuckoo)
• B. J. Thomas ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
• Fred Astaire (untitled dance in-between presentation of the two documentary awards)

References

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