39th Academy Awards

The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.

Only two of the Best Picture nominees were nominated for Best Director: '' A Man for All Seasons'' and ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' Both were adaptations of stage dramas.

This year, six films won multiple Oscars—''A Man for All Seasons'', ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'', ''Grand Prix'', ''Fantastic Voyage'', '' A Man and a Woman'', and ''Born Free''—a record that was later tied in 2010, 2012, and 2017, and surpassed in 2020/21, when seven films won at least two Oscars. Every Best Picture Nominee was also nominated for Best Actor as well.

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 20, 1967. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger ().

Honorary Awards

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

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

* Robert Wise

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

* George Bagnall

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:
* 13 nominations: ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
* 8 nominations: '' A Man for All Seasons'' and ''The Sand Pebbles''
* 7 nominations: ''Hawaii''
* 5 nominations: ''Alfie'' and ''Fantastic Voyage''
* 4 nominations: ''The Fortune Cookie'', ''Georgy Girl'', '' A Man and a Woman'' and ''The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming''
* 3 nominations: ''Gambit'', '' The Gospel According to St. Matthew'', ''Grand Prix'' and '' The Professionals''
* 2 nominations: ''Blowup'', ''Born Free'', '' Is Paris Burning?'', ''Juliet of the Spirits'', ''Mister Buddwing'', '' Morgan!'' and ''The Oscar''

The following films received multiple awards:
* 6 wins: '' A Man for All Seasons''
* 5 wins: ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
* 3 wins: ''Grand Prix''
* 2 wins: ''Born Free'', ''Fantastic Voyage'' and '' A Man and a Woman''

Trivia

* The Academy Awards broadcast was almost canceled because of a strike involving the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the theatrical performers union governing live telecasts. However, the dispute was settled three hours before the ceremony was scheduled to begin. Bob Hope's opening monologue makes many references to this, and he claims that as late as 30 minutes before broadcast it was uncertain whether the telecast would go on.The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1967
, posted to YouTube by The Oscars (official channel)
* Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave were both nominated for Best Actress. This was the first time in 25 years that two sisters were nominated in that category (Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were nominated for Best Actress in 1941).
* This was the only time in the history of the Academy Awards that all Best Actress nominees were born outside of the United States.
* Patricia Neal, making her first Hollywood appearance since a near-fatal stroke of two years before, received a standing ovation from the audience.
* California's governor, Ronald Reagan, was among the guests in the audience. He was a longtime Academy member and supporter.
* "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"'s 13 nominations constitute the second and, , most recent instance of a film being nominated in every category for which it was eligible. The first film to achieve this feat was 1931's Cimarron.
* "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" was also the first film to receive an acting nomination for every credited cast member.
* This was the last year that separate awards were given for black-and-white and color films in Cinematography, Art Direction-Set Decoration, and Costume Design.
* Mitzi Gaynor's performance of the song "Georgy Girl" is often cited as being one of the most heralded performances on an Oscar broadcast.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Performers

See also

* 24th Golden Globe Awards
* 1966 in film
* 9th Grammy Awards
* 18th Primetime Emmy Awards
* 19th Primetime Emmy Awards
* 20th British Academy Film Awards
* 21st Tony Awards
* List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

The 39th Annual Academy Awards
at IMDb

List of winners
at Infoplease

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