Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy Wins Writing Awards: 1970 Oscars

Katharine Ross and Jon Voight presenting the Oscar® for Writing (Screenplay -- based on material from another medium) to Waldo Salt for "Midnight Cowboy," and James Earl Jones and Ali MacGraw presenting the Oscar® for Writing (Story and Screenplay -- based on material not previously published or produced) to William Goldman for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," at the 42nd Academy Awards.

[@joseantonio8275]

Ali MacGraw, what a sense of style she has. She looked stunning at the 70 Academy awards. I was at awe of her.

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Waldo salt has two Oscars both won for films starring jon Voight and presented to him by Jon Voight

[@ALE280290]

Happy for both of them: 2 different masterpieces that deserves to be seen!

[@jwelch5742]

Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has great screenplay.

[@LukeMaynard]

Shame that they didn't name-drop James Leo Herlihy for writing the original novel Midnight Cowbow, a tormented beautiful book that lent itself so well to this adaptation.

[@tntrinket3383]

When Jon Voight Accepted "Best Director" award in the place of Schlesinger, he credited Herlihy and his novel

[@jeremystubbs1980]

Rest in Peace William Goldman

[@everythingclassic1705]

Ross and MacGraw are like sisters

[@lynnturman8157]

Thank you for uploading, Oscar!

[@gonstotwriter]

When it came time to cast actors for MC, the director, John Schlesinger, really wanted Canadian actor Michael Sarrazin to play Joe Buck, but MS was already committed to another project, so JS very reluctantly cast Voight, who had much trouble doing an East Texas twang and had to take a tape recorder down there to work on his accent. Years later, Voight met up with his friend Jane Fonda and admitted that he was hard up for work; Fonda was getting ready to star in Coming Home and knew that Hal Ashby, its director, still hadn't found a Luke because the A-list actors were busy. Ashby said no when Fonda suggested him but time ran out and Ashby brought JV on board. Can't blame Voight if he feels Hollywood has disrespected him over the years.

[@NauvalYazid]

RIP William Goldman.

[@grant1088]

Ali McGraw was so sensual with out trying time gone bye nice to be able to look back . 3:12

[@diegopisfil614]

Z should have won for Best Adapted Screenplay

[@kidwithaphonecamera]

agreed. and best score

[@fredlegrand5362]

Ali Macgraw is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Jesus, how many times did Katherine Ross present Oscars during the late 60's and 1970's ? She will be there in 2019 with her husband Sam Elliot.

[@emiliobello2538]

Darth Vader is saying the names of the screenwriters

[@johnnyballenatl]

Hopefully we see James Earl Jones at this year’s Oscars presenting Best Picture (they always get someone legendary to do it).

[@emiliobello2538]

@@johnnyballenatl yes’s maybe even though he’s snubbed this year Leonardo DiCaprio could

[@viralbuthow000]

Ali is truly the greatest of all time

[@brittoverbaugh4035]

2:36

[@stevedeniro8640]

AMERICA

[@eddiejmkrien2125]

Great movie. Well deserved Oscar. Now, good things cannot be said of the Katharine Ross doing all she can to be bland and looking like a 2 x 4.