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Cinematography - Robert Surtees Best Picture - Lawrence Turman, Producer Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
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. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony.
Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross presenting Burnett Guffey the Oscar® for Cinematography for "Bonnie and Clyde" at the 40th Academy Awards® in 1968. Hosted ...
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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.
David Lean holds the record for the director with the most films that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with five wins out of six nominations for Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter.
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 40th Annual Academy Awards were scheduled for Monday, April 8th, 1968. However, on April 4th, 1968, the U.S. was stunned by the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Riots broke out in several cities across the country.
