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* Special Visual Effects - L. B. Abbott Art Direction - Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss Cinematography - Robert Surtees
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.
It earned four Academy Award nominations and won for Special Visual Effects.On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.On June 6, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot shortly after giving a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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 11th Academy Awards.
Best PictureBest DirectorOliver! – John Woolf, producer‡ Funny ...Carol Reed – Oliver!‡ Stanley Kubrick – ...Cliff Robertson – Charly as Charly ...Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter as ...Jack Albertson – The Subject Was Roses as ...Ruth Gordon – Rosemary's Baby as Minnie ...The Producers – Mel Brooks‡ 2001: A Space ...The Lion in Winter – James Goldman based ...SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS. Ice Station Zebra – Hal Millar, J. McMillan Johnson 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick. FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM. The Boys of Paul Street – Hungary The Firemen’s Ball – Czechoslovakia The Girl with the Pistol – Italy Stolen Kisses – France War and Peace – Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. DOCUMENTARY ...
They were replaced by Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey (with four nominations and only one win - Best Special Visual Effects, the only Oscar won by Kubrick in his entire career!) about a mysterious black monolith and a space trip to Jupiter from Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Sentinel, and Gillo Pontecorvo for the serious documentary ...
The following year, "Best Special Effects" became a recognized category, although on occasion the Academy has chosen to honor a single film outright rather than nominate two or more films. From 1939 to 1963, it was an award for a film's visual effects as well as audio effects, so it was often given to two persons, although some years only one ...
