The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the

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in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. Awards were presented by seventeen "Friends of Oscar":

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, John Wayne,

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, Clint Eastwood,

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Cliff Robertson Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film '' PT 109'', and won the 19 ...

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, Barbara McNair, Elliott Gould,

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, and Elizabeth Taylor. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, but only outside North America. Mexico and Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live. This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings. Its ratings record remains unbroken as of 2020 thanks to the emergence of the Super Bowl as the biggest event of

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'' became the first and only

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film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only

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film to win Best Picture, Carol Reed's '' Oliver!''. '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was the last time until the

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wherein none of the four winning performances came from Best Picture nominees, as well as the first time where every acting nomination, as well as every major nominated film, was in color.

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

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television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (broadcasting the event since

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, but only live since

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), 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

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while the Brazilian rights were sold to

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. The latter country's rights to the TV broadcast of the Oscars were moved to a joint venture of

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and

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. Starting in 1974, the Brazilian TV rights to the Oscars were sold by NBC (which had acquired the TV rights to the Awards from ABC to be broadcast for a five-year period until

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, when they returned to ABC for the next year's Awards) to

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. 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. Since at the time

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was difficult, about 50 other countries did not broadcast the event live. In Europe, most TV broadcasters signed off at midnight, thus the Oscars were not broadcast live and were recorded on film and then shipped to broadcasters with a minimum 4-day delay from the awards' broadcast date. In terms of performances, in-between presenting the documentary awards,

and

discussed how Astaire had never danced on the Academy Awards broadcast before, with Astaire claiming to have "given it ancingup" the previous year. Cuing the orchestra, Hope then left the stage as Astaire began a impromptu dance performance, first in a modern jazz style before ending with traditional tap dancing. (This would not be Astaire's final dance performance as he would later dance in the film ''

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''.)

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 16, 1970. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger ().

Academy Honorary Award

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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

* George Jessel

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations: *''10 nominations'': ''

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'' *''9 nominations'': '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' *''7 nominations'': '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'', '' Hello, Dolly!'' and ''

'' *''5 nominations'': '' Z'' *''4 nominations'': ''

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky, written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker, who also produced the film, and starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, and Dyan Cannon. The origi ...

'' *''3 nominations'': ''

Gaily, Gaily ''Gaily, Gaily'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Chicago, Chicago'') is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a fictionalized adaptation of a 1963 memoir of the same name by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Brian ...

'', ''

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'' and '' Sweet Charity'' *''2 nominations'': ''

Easy Rider ''Easy Rider'' is a 1969 American independent drug culture road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American So ...

'', ''

Goodbye, Mr. Chips ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two televi ...

'', ''

The Happy Ending ''The Happy Ending'' is a 1969 drama film written and directed by Richard Brooks, which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her husband and daughter. It stars Jean Simmons (who received an Oscar nomination), ...

'', '' The Magic Machines'', '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'', '' The Reivers'', ''

The Secret of Santa Vittoria ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' is a 1969 American war film distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and co-produced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the be ...

'', ''

The Sterile Cuckoo ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' (released in the UK as ''Pookie'') is a 1969 American comedy-drama film by producer-director Alan J. Pakula that tells the story of an eccentric young couple whose relationship deepens despite their differences and inadeq ...

'', ''

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'' and ''

The Wild Bunch ''The Wild Bunch'' is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on th ...

'' The following films received multiple awards. *''4 wins'': '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' *''3 wins'': '' Hello, Dolly!'' and ''

'' *''2 wins'': '' Z''

Presenters and performers

(Presenter: Best Supporting Actress and Documentary Awards) *

(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) *

(Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Language Film) * Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film) * Elliott Gould (Presenter: Best Sound) *

(Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and Documentary Awards) *

(Presenter: Best Film Editing and Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced) *

(Presenter: Best Short Subjects, Best Art Direction and Best Director) *

(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)) *

(Presenter: Best Actress, Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (Not a Musical) & Short Subjects Awards) *

(Presenter: Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) * Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Honorary Award to

) *

(Presenter: Best Actor) * Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Picture) *

(Presenter: Best Art Direction and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) *

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(Presenter: Best Original Score for a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation) * John Wayne (Presenter: Best Cinematography) *

(Presenter: Best Special Visual Effects)

Performers

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" from ''

'') * Lou Rawls ("

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References

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The ceremony

Winners and nominees

Academy Honorary Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

Performers

See also

References