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40th Academy Awards
Date	10 April 1968
Site	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA
Host	Bob Hope

The 40th Academy Awards honoured film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for 8 April 1968, the awards were postponed because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films, the awards for cinematography, art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome.

The ultimate (surprise) winner in the Best Picture category was director Norman Jewison's engrossing thriller-murder mystery and sleeper comedy/drama film, In the Heat of the Night (with seven nominations and five wins - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound). It illustrated the racial tension, prejudice, and eventual mutual respect and camaraderie expressed between a black police detective from the North (Philadelphia) and a Southern racist, white police chief in the small Mississippi town of Sparta, where both were compelled to work together on the same homicide case.

Contents 1 Winners 1.1 Films 1.2 Direction 1.3 Acting 2 Writing 2.1 Music 2.2 Honorary Oscar

[edit] Winners

[edit] Films

• Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night - Walter Mirisch, producer

[edit] Direction

• Achievement in Direction: Mike Nichols for The Graduate

[edit] Acting

• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night
• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Katharine Hepburn in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
• Best Actor in a Supproting Role: George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Estelle Parsons in Bonnie and Clyde

[edit] Writing

• Best Original Screenplay: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner written by William Rose
• Best Adapted Screenplay: In the Heat of the Night screenplay by Stirling Silliphant

[edit] Music

• Best Original Song: Doctor Dolittle - Leslie Bricusse for the song "Talk to the Animals"
• Best Original Score: Thoroughly Modern Millie by Elmer Bernstein

[edit] Honorary Oscar

Producer/director Alfred Hitchcock was presented with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, possibly in recognition of the fact that he had been nominated for the Best Director Award five times (for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960)) but had yet to win. This was Hitchcock's first and only 'Oscar'.

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