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* Best Picture - Walter Mirisch, Producer * Sound - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stirling Silliphant
The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, the awards were postponed to two days later due to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. [1] Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony.
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night. In the Heat of the Night also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Film Editing (Hal Ashby), Sound (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department), and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Stirling Silliphant).
The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968. They were the first Oscars to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, [1] and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards. [2]
Oct 4, 2013 · Walter Mirisch accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night at the 40th Academy Awards. Presented by Julie Andrews and hosted by Bob Hope.
by director Sir Carol Reed and the bloated musical won the Best Picture award without winning any other acting awards. The two front-runners for the Best Picture award, The Lion in Winter and Funny Girl, apparently canceled each other out, and handed the top award to the major upset winner Oliver!
At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award.
