1968 (41st Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1968 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) John Woolf, Producer.

Best Actor

Cliff Robertson in Charly, American Broadcasting Companies-Selmur Pictures Production; Cinerama.

Best Actress

Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter, Haworth Productions, Ltd.; Avco Embassy. (UK, USA)

Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Rastar Productions; Columbia.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ruth Gordon in Rosemary’s Baby, William Castle Enterprises Production; Paramount.

Directing

Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Carol Reed.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by John Box and Terence Marsh; set decoration by Vernon Dixon and Ken Muggleston.

Cinematography

Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Pasqualino De Santis.

Costume Design

Romeo and Juliet, B.H.E. Film-Verona Production-Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica S.p.A. Production; Paramount. (UK, Italy) Danilo Donati.

Documentary

(Feature)

Journey into Self, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute. Bill McGaw, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Why Man Creates, Saul Bass & Associates. Saul Bass, Producer.

Film Editing

Bullitt, Solar Production; Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Frank P. Keller.

Foreign Language Film

War and Peace, Mosfilm Studios Production; Walter Reade-Continental Distributing. (Soviet Union)

Music

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

The Lion in Winter, Haworth Productions, Ltd.; Avco Embassy. (UK, USA) John Barry.

(Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)

Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Adaptation score by John Green.

(Song [Original for the Picture])

The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair, Mirisch-Simkoe-Solar Production; United Artists. Music by Michel Legrand; lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Walt Disney, Producer.

(Live Action)

Robert Kennedy Remembered, Guggenheim Productions; National General Pictures. Charles Guggenheim, Producer.

Sound

Oliver!, Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Shepperton Studio Sound Department.

Special Visual Effects

2001: A Space Odyssey, Polaris Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Stanley Kubrick.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

The Lion in Winter, Haworth Productions, Ltd.; Avco Embassy. (UK, USA) James Goldman.

(Story and Screenplay—written directly for the screen)

The Producers, Sidney Glazier Production; Avco Embassy. Mel Brooks.

Honorary Award

To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!. [ [Statuette]]

(Makeup)

To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Martha Raye

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class I)

To Philip V. Palmquist of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., to Dr. Herbert Meyer of the Motion Picture and Television Research Center, and to Charles D. Staffell of the Rank Organization for the development of a successful embodiment of the reflex background projection system for composite cinematography.

To Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of a color reversal intermediate film for motion pictures.

(Class II)

To Donald W. Norwood for the design and development of the Norwood Photographic Exposure Meters.

To Eastman Kodak Company and Producers Service Company for the development of a new high-speed step-optical reduction printer.

To Edmund M. DiGiulio, Niels G. Petersen and Norman S. Hughes of the Cinema Product Development Company for the design and application of a conversion which makes available the reflex viewing system for motion picture cameras.

To Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc. for the development of an improved anti-reflection coating for photographic and projection lens systems.

To Eastman Kodak Company for the introduction of a new high speed motion picture color negative film.

To Panavision, Incorporated, for the conception, design and introduction of a 65mm hand-held motion picture camera.

To Todd-AO and Mitchell Camera Company for the design and engineering of the Todd-AO hand-held motion picture camera.

(Class III)

To Carl W. Hauge and Edward H. Reichard of Consolidated Film Industries and E. Michael Meahl and Roy J. Ridenour of Ramtronics for engineering an automatic exposure control for printing-machine lamps.

To Eastman Kodak Company for a new direct positive film and to Consolidated Film Industries for the application of this film to the making of post-production work prints.