Oscar Rewrite: 1969

 

Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy

Best Director: John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)

Best Actor: John Wayne (True Grit)

Best Actress: Maggie Smith (Prime of Jean Brodie) Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses Don’t They)

Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young (They Shoot Horses) Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider)

Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower) Katharine Ross (Butch & Sundance)

Best Original Screenplay: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Best Adapted Screenplay: Midnight Cowboy     Z

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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