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Memorable Moments. Mike Nichols. Best Directing winner for The Gradaute, with presenter Leslie Caron. In the Heat of the Night. Film Editing winner Hal Ashby, director Norman Jewison, Best Actor Rod Steiger and Best Picture-winning producer Walter Mirisch. Gregory Peck. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient, with presenter Rosalind Russell.
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.
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.
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians.
Check winners and nominations of 1968 Academy Awards. Check awards winners of 41st Academy Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)
On January 22, 1968, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In debuted on NBC. In April 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered. It earned four Academy Award nominations and won for Special Visual Effects. On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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.
