The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968) (TV)

Director:

Richard Dunlap

Release Date:

10 April 1968 (USA)

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Awards Show | TV Special | Number In Title

Cast

Bob Hope	...	Himself - Host & Presenter: Honorary Award to Arthur Freed
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julie Andrews	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Picture
Louis Armstrong	...	Himself - Performer
Hal Ashby	...	Himself - Winner: Best Film Editing
Anne Bancroft	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Previewing Academy's fourth decade (pre-recorded)
Elmer Bernstein	...	Himself - Conductor / Best Original Score Winner
Claire Bloom	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Writing Awards
Macdonald Carey	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action
Leslie Caron	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Director
Diahann Carroll	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Short Subject, Cartoon & Live Action
Carol Channing	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role & Presenter: Best Sound
George Cukor	...	Himself - accepting Best Actress Award for Katharine Hepburn
Sammy Davis Jr.	...	Himself - Performer & Accepting Best Song Award for Leslie Bricusse
Olivia de Havilland	...	Herself - reviewing Academy's second decade (pre-recorded)
Angie Dickinson	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Music Score Awards
Patty Duke	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Faye Dunaway	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Edith Evans	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Presenter: Best Editing
Audrey Hepburn	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Presenter: Best Actor
Katharine Hepburn	...	Herself - reviewing Academy's first decade (pre-recorded)
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself (Thalberg Award Recipient)
Dustin Hoffman	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Cinematography
Rock Hudson	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Shirley Jones	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Danny Kaye	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film
Lainie Kazan	...	Herself - Perfomer
Gene Kelly	...	Himself - Co-presenter: Music Score Awards
Grace Kelly	...	Herself - reviewing Academy's third decade (pre-recorded) (as Princess Grace)
George Kennedy	...	Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Angela Lansbury	...	Herself - Performer
Walter Matthau	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sergio Mendes	...	Himself - Performer (as Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66)
Walter Mirisch	...	Himself - Winner: Best Picture
Robert Moore	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Documentary Awards
Mike Nichols	...	Himself - Winner: Best Director
Estelle Parsons	...	Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Gregory Peck	...	Himself - Academy President / Hersholt Award Recipient
Sidney Poitier	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Katharine Ross	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role & Co-Presenter: Best Cinematography
Barbara Rush	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Documentary Awards
Rosalind Russell	...	Herself - Presenter: Hersholt Award
Eva Marie Saint	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Costume Design
Rod Steiger	...	Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Writing Awards
Barbra Streisand	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Song
Robert Wise	...	Himself - Presenter: Thalberg Award
Natalie Wood	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Special Effects

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, California, USA

Company:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Trivia:

The event was postponed two days out of respect following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quotes:

Bob Hope: [Closing remarks, referring to Martin Luther King, Jr] The Man from Montgomery and today's young filmmakers have much in common. They, too, have a dream.

Movie Connections:

Followed by The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Almost perfect attendance in the four acting catagories!!

Apparently, out of the 20 nominated performers for the four acting catagories, 18 showed up. The missing two were Spencer Tracy, as he was dead, but was represented by his widow and also missing was Katharine Hepburn, who was in Los Angeles that night, but did not want the public to see her face, in case she lost the award. Poor baby!! What can one say about the nominees and the winners for this year. Horrible!! "Doctor Doolittle" was nominated for Best Picture instead of "In Cold Blood", Paul Newman loses Best Actor to that hammiest of actors, Rod Steiger and Katharine Hepburn win Best Actress out of sympathy because of Spencer Tracy dying. Any of the other four actresses nominated would have been a better selection. But not all was lost, after all Alfred Hitchcock received the Thalberg Award, still it would have been something for Mr. Hitchcock to have received an actual Oscar in his lifetime, but I am not arguing on this one.