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Rod Steiger winning an Oscar® for Best Actor

Audrey Hepburn presenting Rod Steiger with the Best Actor Oscar® for his performance in In the Heat of the Night - 40th Annual...

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Cliff Robertson's performance in Charly, which had received a mixed-to-negative reception from critics and audiences, engendered controversy when he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
List of Academy Awards for Songs
DateSongComposers
1967Talk to the AnimalsLeslie Bricusse
1968The Windmills of Your MindAlan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Michel LeGrand
1969Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My HeadHal David & Burt Bacharach
1970For All We KnowFred Karlin (music); Jimmy Griffin & Robb Royer (music)
Hepburn, whose award for Best Actress was accepted by George Cukor, was in France filming The Lion in Winter, and Tracy, whose nomination was posthumous as he had died ten months before the ceremony occurred. There was no Governor's Ball.
  • Fred Zinnemann. Winner of Best Directing and Best Picture and acceptor of Best Actor (Paul Scofield) for A Man for All Seasons.
  • Elizbaeth Taylor. Best Actress winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The California Governor and his wife at the Oscars.
It was also an astonishing year when Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist was made into a big-budget musical film version, Oliver! by director Sir Carol Reed and the bloated musical won the Best Picture award without winning any other acting awards.