42nd Academy Awards
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Award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1969
Key facts
- Date
- April 7, 1970
- Site
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Angeles
- Produced by
- M. J. Frankovich
- Directed by
- Richard Dunlap , Jack Haley Jr.
- Best picture
- Midnight Cowboy
- Most awards
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4)
- Most nominations
- Anne of the Thousand Days (10)
- Network
- ABC
- Duration
- 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Ratings
- 43.4% ( Nielsen ratings )
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Wikidata facts
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 43rd Academy Awards
- Follows
- 41st Academy Awards
- Location
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
- Director
- Jack Haley Jr.
- Producer
- M. J. Frankovich
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970
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- point in time
- 1970-04-07
- edition number
- 42
- awarded for period
- 1969-00-00
- broadcast by
- American Broadcasting Company
- presenter
- Jack Lemmon
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Encyclopedic overview
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, although Brazil was the only country outside North America to air the event live.
One year after Oliver! became the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated film to win, though its rating was changed in 1971 to R after the MPAA revised its ratings criteria. Only one other X-rated film has been nominated for Best Picture since, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), which was also subsequently downgraded to an R rating (though this was a result of cuts to the original film).
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