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Oscars 1969 Winners & Nominees

The 41st Academy Awards (1969) took place on April 14, 1969. Oliver! won Best Picture and 5 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 19 categories is below.

All 19 categories Most wins
categories
19
nominations
52
films nominated
15
winners
16
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Best Picture
Oliver!
Headline winners

Oscars 1969: The Winners

Oliver! won Best Picture against 3 other nominees. Carol Reed (Best Director), Cliff Robertson (Best Actor) and Barbra Streisand (Best Actress) took the main individual prizes.

Oliver! (1968) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

Oliver!

1968 · Drama, Family, Musical · $228 worldwide

6 wins from 12 nominations at the 41st Academy Awards (1969)

  • Best Art Direction
  • Best Director
  • Honorary Award
  • Best Music (Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)
  • Best Sound

A young orphan named Oliver Twist escapes his workhouse and finds himself navigating the dark and dangerous streets of Victorian London. He falls in with a group of pickpockets led by the manipulative Fagin, and mentored by the quick-witted Artful Dodger. Offered a chance at a better life with the benevolent Mr. Brownlow, Oliver finds himself pursued by the menacing Bill Sikes, who will do anything to protect Fagin's criminal enterprise.

About Oliver!
Scoreboard

Oscars 1969: Which Films Won the Most

Oliver! won 6 awards from 12 nominations. 10 films won at least once, while Rachel, Rachel went home empty-handed from 4 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Oliver! (1968) movie poster
    Oliver! 6 / 12
    1968 · Drama, Family · 6 wins from 12 nominations
  2. Romeo and Juliet (1968) movie poster
    Romeo and Juliet 2 / 4
    1968 · Drama, Romance · 2 wins from 4 nominations
  3. Funny Girl (1968) movie poster
    Funny Girl 1 / 8
    1968 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 8 nominations
  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) movie poster
    2001: A Space Odyssey 1 / 4
    1968 · Adventure, Sci-Fi · 1 win from 4 nominations
  5. Planet of the Apes (1968) movie poster
    Planet of the Apes 1 / 3
    1968 · Adventure, Sci-Fi · 1 win from 3 nominations
  6. Rosemary's Baby (1968) movie poster
    Rosemary's Baby 1 / 2
    1968 · Drama, Horror · 1 win from 2 nominations
  7. Bullitt (1968) movie poster
    Bullitt 1 / 2
    1968 · Action, Mystery · 1 win from 2 nominations
  8. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) movie poster
    The Thomas Crown Affair 1 / 2
    1968 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 2 nominations
  9. The Producers (1968) movie poster
    The Producers 1 / 2
    1968 · Comedy, Music · 1 win from 2 nominations
  10. Charly (1968) movie poster
    Charly 1 / 1
    1968 · Sci-Fi, Drama · 1 win from 1 nomination
Full results

All 19 Oscars 1969 Categories: Winners & Nominees

19 categories and 52 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

19 categories · 52 nominations

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Oscars 1969 Best Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

Official name: Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

4 nominees

No winner is recorded for this category.

Oscars 1969 Honorary Award

1 nominee

Oscars 1969 Best Music (Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical])

Official name: Music (Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical])

2 nominees

No winner is recorded for this category.

Oscars 1969 Best Music (Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)

Official name: Music (Score of a Musical Picture—original or adaptation)

2 nominees
Movie marathon

The Oscars 1969 Best Picture Marathon

All 4 Best Picture nominees at the 41st Academy Awards (1969), back to back: 9 hours 3 minutes.

Total running time 9h 3m 9 hours 3 minutes All 4 films
Longest
Oliver! 2h 33m
Shortest
Rachel, Rachel 1h 41m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Oscars 1969 Winners

Drama led with 36 nominations across 8 films and won 12. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 12 wins · 36 nominations · 33%
  2. Musical 7 wins · 21 nominations · 33%
  3. Romance 5 wins · 19 nominations · 26%
  4. Family 6 wins · 13 nominations · 46%
  5. Comedy 2 wins · 12 nominations · 17%
  6. Adventure 2 wins · 10 nominations · 20%
  7. Sci-Fi 3 wins · 8 nominations · 38%
  8. Biography 1 win · 8 nominations · 13%
  9. Mystery 2 wins · 6 nominations · 33%
  10. Thriller 2 wins · 6 nominations · 33%
1969 season

How the Rest of the 1969 Awards Season Voted

The other 3 ceremonies of 1969, with the winner of each top prize.

All 1969 awards
Earlier years

Previous Oscars Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Oscars page has every year back to 1929.

Every Oscars ceremony

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Oscars 1969: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 41st Academy Awards (1969), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 41st Academy Awards (1969)?

Oliver! (1968) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Funny Girl, Rachel, Rachel and Romeo and Juliet.

About Oliver!

Which film won the most awards at the 41st Academy Awards (1969)?

Oliver! (1968) won the most: 6 awards from 12 nominations. Romeo and Juliet was next with 2 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 41st Academy Awards (1969)?

Oliver! (1968) led with 12 nominations and won 6 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 41st Academy Awards (1969)?

Best Director: Carol Reed for Oliver! Best Actor: Cliff Robertson for Charly. Best Actress: Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl. Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby.

When was the 41st Academy Awards (1969)?

The 41st Academy Awards (1969) took place on April 14, 1969. The database has 19 categories and 52 nominations for it.