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* Best Picture - Walter Mirisch, Producer * Sound - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stirling Silliphant
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.
From its eleven nominations, the film won only five awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Musical Score, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Sound) and a sixth Honorary Technical Award for Onna White's choreography.
Walter Mirisch accepts the Oscar for Best Picture for In the Heat of the Night at the 40th Academy Awards. Presented by Julie Andrews and hosted by Bob Hope.
41st Academy Awards (1968): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST PICTURE. Funny Girl – Ray Stark. The Lion in Winter – Martin Poll. Oliver! – John Woolf. Rachel, Rachel – Paul Newman. Romeo and Juliet – Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne. DIRECTING. The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo.
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, [1] and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards. [2]
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night. In the Heat of the Night also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Film Editing (Hal Ashby), Sound (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department), and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Stirling Silliphant).
