It’s a little hard to make out, but in the advertisement above for the 42nd Annual Academy Awards Show, ABC is making a selling point out of the broadcast being in color. In fact, this was the first Oscars ceremony where every acting nomination was for a color film! It also seems that most of these movies stood the test of time – we still have copies of almost all of them in our library system. So, without further ado, the winners of the 1970 Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy also won Best Director for John Schlesinger and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Waldo Salt, based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy

Best Actress: Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Best Actor: John Wayne in True Grit

Complete list of feature-length winners:
■ Cactus Flower (Goldie Hawn as Best Supporting Actress)
■ They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (Gig Young as Best Supporting Actor)
■ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman for Best Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced; Burt Bacharach for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a musical); Burt Bacharach’s and Hal David’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” for Best Song Original for the Picture; Conrad Hall for Best Cinematography)
■ The Love of Life (Arthur Rubinstein for Best Documentary Feature)
■ Hello, Dolly! (Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman for Best Score of a Musical Picture; Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack for Best Sound; J. DeCuir, J. M. Smith, and H. A. Blumenthal (Art Direction) and W. M. Scott, G. J. Hopkins, and R. Bretton (Set Decoration) for Best Art Direction)
■ Z (Best Foreign Language Film; Francoise Bonnot for Best Film Editing)
■ Anne of the Thousand Days (Margaret Furse for Best Costume Design)
■ Marooned (Robbie Robertson for Best Special Visual Effects)

Complete list of short-length winners:
■ Czechoslovakia 1968 for Best Documentary Short Subject
■ The Magic Machines for Best Live Action Short Subject
■ It’s Tough to Be a Bird for Best Short Subject Cartoon