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Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
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.
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, and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards.
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.
List of Academy Awards for Songs. The first awards were given in 1927, the same year as the first sound film, The Jazz Singer. No musical awards for songs were included until 1934.
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).
