1968 ceremony · films of 1967

The 40th Oscars

106 nominations in 23 categories.

Nominations and wins

The night's big films

Winners first

Every category

Best Picture

In the Heat of the Night
Walter Mirisch, Producer
Bonnie and Clyde
Warren Beatty, Producer
Doctor Dolittle
Arthur P. Jacobs, Producer
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Stanley Kramer, Producer
The Graduate
Lawrence Turman, Producer

Best Director

Best Actor

Announced as Actor

Rod Steiger · Police Chief Bill Gillespie
In the Heat of the Night
Warren Beatty · Clyde Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Paul Newman · Luke Jackson
Cool Hand Luke
Spencer Tracy · Matt Drayton
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Dustin Hoffman · Ben Braddock
The Graduate

Best Actress

Announced as Actress

Katharine Hepburn · Christina Drayton
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Faye Dunaway · Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde
Anne Bancroft · Mrs. Robinson
The Graduate
Dame Edith Evans · Mrs. Ross
The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn · Susy Hendrix
Wait Until Dark

Best Supporting Actor

George Kennedy · Dragline
Cool Hand Luke
Gene Hackman · Buck Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Michael J. Pollard · C.W. Moss
Bonnie and Clyde
Cecil Kellaway · Monsignor Ryan
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
John Cassavetes · Victor Franko
The Dirty Dozen

Best Supporting Actress

Estelle Parsons · Blanche Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Mildred Natwick · Mrs. Ethel Banks
Barefoot in the Park
Beah Richards · Mrs. Prentice
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Katharine Ross · Elaine Robinson
The Graduate
Carol Channing · Muzzy Van Hossmere
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Best Original Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Story and Screenplay--Written Directly for the Screen)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
William Rose
Bonnie and Clyde
David Newman, Robert Benton
Divorce American Style
Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
The War Is Over
Jorge Semprun
Jorge Semprún
Two for the Road
Frederic Raphael

Best Adapted Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Screenplay--Based On Material From Another Medium)

In the Heat of the Night
Stirling Silliphant
Cool Hand Luke
Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson
Frank Pierson
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
The Graduate
Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
Ulysses
Joseph Strick, Fred Haines

Best International Feature

Announced as Foreign Language Film

Best Documentary Feature

The Anderson Platoon
Pierre Schoendoerffer, Producer
A King's Story
Jack Le Vien, Producer
Jack Levin
A Time for Burning
William C. Jersey, Producer
Bill Jersey
Festival
Murray Lerner, Producer
Harvest
Carroll Ballard, Producer

Best Cinematography

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design

Camelot
Art Direction: John Truscott, Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown
John Brown
Doctor Dolittle
Art Direction: Mario Chiari, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Art Direction: Robert Clatworthy; Set Decoration: Frank Tuttle
The Taming of the Shrew
Art Direction: Renzo Mongiardino, John DeCuir, Elven Webb, Giuseppe Mariani; Set Decoration: Dario Simoni, Luigi Gervasi
Lorenzo Mongiardino
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Howard Bristol

Best Costume Design

Best Original Score

Announced as Music (Original Music Score)

Best Song Score or Adaptation Score

Announced as Music (Scoring of Music--Adaptation or Treatment)

Best Original Song

Announced as Music (Song)

Doctor Dolittle · Talk To The Animals
Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Banning · The Eyes Of Love
Music by Quincy Jones; Lyrics by Bob Russell
Casino Royale · The Look Of Love
Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David
The Jungle Book · The Bare Necessities
Music and Lyrics by Terry Gilkyson
Thoroughly Modern Millie · Thoroughly Modern Millie
Music and Lyrics by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
Jimmy Van Heusen

Best Sound

Announced as Sound

In the Heat of the Night
Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department
Camelot
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department
Doctor Dolittle
20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department
The Dirty Dozen
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Universal City Studio Sound Department

Best Sound Editing

Announced as Sound Effects

The Dirty Dozen
John Poyner
In the Heat of the Night
James A. Richard
James Richard

Best Visual Effects

Announced as Special Visual Effects

Doctor Dolittle
L. B. Abbott
L.B. Abbott
Tobruk
Howard A. Anderson, Jr., Albert Whitlock

Best Documentary Short

The Redwoods
Mark Harris and Trevor Greenwood, Producers
Mark Jonathan Harris
A Place to Stand
Christopher Chapman, Producer
Monument to the Dream
Charles E. Guggenheim, Producer
Charles Guggenheim
See You at the Pillar
Robert Fitchett, Producer
While I Run This Race
Carl V. Ragsdale, Producer

Best Animated Short

Announced as Short Subject (Cartoon)

The Box
Fred Wolf, Producer
Hypothèse Beta
Jean-Charles Meunier, Producer
What on Earth!
Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig, Producers

Best Live Action Short

Announced as Short Subject (Live Action)

A Place to Stand
Christopher Chapman, Producer
Paddle to the Sea
Julian Biggs, Producer
Sky Over Holland
John Ferno, Producer
John Fernhout
Stop Look and Listen
Len Janson and Chuck Menville, Producers

Not competitive

Honorary and special awards

Honorary Award

Arthur Freed
To Arthur Freed for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Alfred Hitchcock

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Gregory Peck