39th Annual Academy Awards Results and Commentary (1967)

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• Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 10, 1967
• For films released in: 1966
• Host(s): Bob Hope (video)

• Nominations List

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Bob Hope once again hosted, taking the reigns of the 39th Academy Awards on Monday, April 10th, 1967.

He almost didn’t have a TV show to host. The American Federation of Radio-TV Artists (AFTRA) was on strike and the broadcast was almost canceled until the strike was settled just over two hours before the telecast began.

With the proceedings underway, the film adaptation of the stage success A Man for All Seasons won six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann) and a Best Actor for Paul Scofield.

The intense drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? took home five awards including Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and Supporting Actress for Sandy Dennis. A bruised-up Walter Matthau, who had been in a cycling accident, took home Best Supporting Actor for The Fortune Cookie.

Trivia for the night: Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were the first sisters to both be nominated as Best Actress in the same year since Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine in 1941.

Results

Best Picture

• A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann [Producer]

Best Directing

• A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann

Best Actor

• A Man for All Seasons
  Paul Scofield

Best Actress

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Elizabeth Taylor

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• The Fortune Cookie
  Walter Matthau

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Sandy Dennis

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Man and a Woman

Best Art Direction (Black-and-White)

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Richard Sylbert [Art Direction] and George James Hopkins [Set Decoration]

Best Art Direction (Color)

• Fantastic Voyage
  Jack Martin Smith [Art Direction], Dale Hennesy [Art Direction], Walter M. Scott [Set Decoration] and Stuart A. Reiss [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Haskell Wexler

Best Cinematography (Color)

• A Man for All Seasons
  Ted Moore

Best Costume Design (Black-and-White)

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Irene Sharaff

Best Costume Design (Color)

• A Man for All Seasons
  Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge

Best Documentary (Feature)

• The War Game
  Peter Watkins

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• A Year toward Tomorrow
  Edmond A. Levy

Best Film Editing

• Grand Prix
  Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo

Best Music (Original Music Score)

• Born Free
  John Barry

Best Music (Scoring of Music - adaptation or treatment)

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  Ken Thorne

Best Music (Song)

• Born Free "Born Free"
  John Barry [Music by] and Don Black [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature
  John Hubley and Faith Hubley

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• Wild Wings
  Edgar Anstey

Best Sound

• Grand Prix
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department and Franklin E. Milton [Sound Director]

Best Sound Effects

• Grand Prix
  Gordon Daniel

Best Special Visual Effects

• Fantastic Voyage
  Art Cruickshank

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

• A Man for All Seasons
  Robert Bolt

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen)

• A Man and a Woman
  Claude Lelouch [Story and Screenplay by] and Pierre Uytterhoeven [Screenplay by]

Honorary Award

• Y. Frank Freeman
  Note: …for unusual and outstanding service to the Academy during his thirty years in Hollywood.
• Yakima Canutt
  Note: …for achievements as a stunt man and for developing safety devices to protect stunt men everywhere.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Robert Wise

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• George Bagnall

Scientific or Technical Award (Class II)

• Mitchell Camera Corporation
  Note: …for the design and development of the Mitchell Mark II 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera.
• Arnold & Richter KG
  Note: …for the design and development of the Arriflex 35mm Portable Motion Picture Reflex Camera.

Scientific or Technical Award (Class III)

• Panavision Inc.
  Note: …for the design of the Panatron Power Inverter and its application to motion picture camera operation.
• Carroll Knudson
  Note: …for the production of a Composer's Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization.
• Ruby Raksin
  Note: …for the production of a Composer's Manual for Motion Picture Music Synchronization.