1969 — Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah)

2. Midnight Cowboy (dir: John Schlesinger)

3. Kes (dir: Ken Loach)

4. Z (dir: Costa-Gavras)

5. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (dir: Paul Mazursky)

6. The Color of Pomegranates (dir: Sergei Parajanov)

7. Last Summer (dir: Frank Perry)

8. Le Samouraï (dir: Jean Pierre-Melville; UK Release Date)

9. Blind Beast (dir: Yasuzo Masumura)

10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (dir: George Roy Hill)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Anne of a Thousand Days (dir: Charles Jarrott), The Bed Sitting Room (dir: Richard Lester), The Damned (dir: Luchino Visconti), Easy Rider (dir: Dennis Hopper), Medium Cool (dir: Haskell Wexler), Oh! What a Lovely War (dir: Richard Attenborough), Putney Swope (dir: Robert Downey), The Rain People (dir: Francis Ford Coppola), Salesman (dir: Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin), Stolen Kisses (dir: Francois Truffaut), and Sweet Charity (dir: Bob Fosse) and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (dir: Sydney Pollack)

Best Picture: The Wild Bunch
Director: Sam Peckinpah Producer: Phil Feldman
US Distributor: Warner Brothers

Best Director:
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch
2. John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy
3. Costa-Gavras, Z
4. Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates
5. Ken Loach, Kes

Best Actor:
Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
2. Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy
3. Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. William Holden, The Wild Bunch

Best Actress:
Genevieve Bujold, Anne of a Thousand Days
2. Jane Fonda, The Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3. Shirley Knight, The Rain People
4. Shirley MacLaine, Sweet Charity
5. Mako Midori, Blind Beast

Best Supporting Actor:
Robert Ryan, The Wild Bunch
2. Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider
3. Arthur Lowe, The Bed Sitting Room
4. James Caan, The Rain People
5. Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch

Best Supporting Actress:
Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
2. Delphine Seyrig, Stolen Kisses
3. Catherine Burns, Last Summer
4. Susannah York, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
5. Chita Rivera, Sweet Charity

Best Original Screenplay: 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — William Goldman
2. The Wild Bunch — Sam Peckinpah and Walon Green
3. Putney Swope — Robert Downey
4. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
5. Stolen Kisses — François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, and Bernard Revon

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Midnight Cowboy — Waldo Salt
2. Kes — Ken Loach, Barry Hines and Tony Bartlett
3. Last Summer — Eleanor Perry
4. The Color of Pomegranates — Sergei Parajanov
5. The Bed Sitting Room — John Antrobus and Charles Wood

Best Cinematography:
Z — Raoul Coutard
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — Conrad L. Hall
3. The Color of Pomegranates — Suren Shakhbazyan
4. Medium Cool — Haskell Wexler
5. The Wild Bunch — Lucien Ballard

Best Film Editing: 
The Wild Bunch — Lou Lombardo
2. Z — Francoise Bonnot
3. Midnight Cowboy — Hugh A. Robertson
4. Le Samuraï — Monique Bonnot and Yolande Maurette
5. Easy Rider — Donn Cambern

Best Original Score:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — Burt Bacharach
2. The Wild Bunch — Jerry Fielding
3. Z — Mikis Theodorakis 
4. Midnight Cowboy — John Barry
5. A Boy Named Charlie Brown — Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter

Best Production Design: 
Blind Beast — Shigeo Mano
2. The Bed Sitting Room – Assheton Gorton and Michael Seymour
3. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? — Harry Horner and Frank McKelvey
4. Oh! What a Lovely War — Don Ashton and Harry White
5. Anne of a Thousand Days — Maurice Carter, Peter Howitt, and Patrick McLoughlin

Best Costume Design: 
Anne of a Thousand Days — Margaret Furse
2. Fellini’s Satyricon — Danilo Donati
3. Oh! What a Lovely War! — Anthony Mendelson
4. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Donald Lee Feld
5. Sweet Charity — Edith Head

Best Visual Effects:
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Best Sound:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Best Documentary Feature: 
Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, Salesman

Best Animated Feature: 
Bill Melendez, A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Wild Bunch

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Wild Bunch (dir: Sam Peckinpah; in alphabetical order): Ernest Borgnine, Emilio Fernandez, William Holden (pictured), Ben Johnson (pictured), Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates (pictured), Robert Ryan and Jaime Sanchez

Orson Welles' Best First Feature Award:
Elliott Gould and Natalie Wood (pictured) in Paul Mazursky’s Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

RECAP

W I N S :

The Wild Bunch — 5,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — 3, Anne of a Thousand Days — 2, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — 2, Midnight Cowboy — 2, Blind Beast — 1, A Boy Named Charlie Brown – 1, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun — 1, Salesman — 1, Z — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Wild Bunch — 10,
Midnight Cowboy — 7, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — 6, Z — 5, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — 4, The Color of Pomegranates — 4, Kes – 4, They Shoot Horses Don’t They? — 4, Anne of a Thousand Days — 3, Bed-Sitting Room — 3, Blind Beast — 3, Last Summer — 3, A Boy Named Charlie Brown — 2, Easy Rider— 2, Le Samuraï — 2, The Rain People — 2, Stolen Kisses— 2, Sweet Charity — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
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