41st Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 41st
caption = "Oliver!"
date = Monday, April 14, 1969
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = None
producer = Gower Champion
director = Gower Champion
network = ABC
last = 40th
next = 42ndThe 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

Winners

Feature Films

Presenters/Attendees

*Jack Albertson (Winner: Best Supporting Actor)
*Ingrid Bergman (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Best Cinematography)
*Diahann Carroll (Co-Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects, Documentary Awards & Honorary Award to Onna White)
*Tony Curtis (Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action & Documentary Awards)
*Jane Fonda (Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Costume Design & Best Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action)
*Ruth Gordon (Winner: Best Supporting Actress)
*Bob Hope (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
*Burt Lancaster (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Special Visual Effects, Scientific & Technical Awards)
*Mark Lester (Co-Presenter: Honorary Award to Onna White)
*Henry Mancini (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
*Walter Matthau (Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing & Honorary Award to John Chambers)
*Marni Nixon (Co-Presenter: Best Score of a Musical Picture)
*Gregory Peck (Accepting the Best Actor award for Cliff Robertson)
*Sidney Poitier (Co-Presenter: Best Picture)
*Carol Reed (Winner: Best Director)
*Rosalind Russell (Co-Presenter: Best Original Score, Best Sound & Writing Awards)
*Frank Sinatra (Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Song & Writing Awards)
*Barbra Streisand (Winner: Best Actress)
*Natalie Wood (Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration & Scientific & Technical Awards)

Performers

*José Feliciano ("The Windmills of Your Mind" from "The Thomas Crown Affair") *"the award winner"
*Aretha Franklin ("Funny Girl" from "Funny Girl")
*Abbey Lincoln ("For the Love of Ivy" from "For the Love of Ivy")
*Sidney Poitier, Ingrid Bergman, Paula Kelly and the UCLA Band ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)")

Further reading

*cite news|title=Pushing the Oscar envelope, The Academy Awards broadcast has not always been as tame as in recent years. Heres a look back at some weird and wacky moments in Hollywoods biggest night|publisher=Newsday|date=2005-02-20