Oliver! and Carol Reed Win Best Picture and Directing: 1969 Oscars

[@enes4803]

And the real winner is ''2001: A Space Odyssey''

[@mrgraham5521]

Oliver is a masterclass in musical theater and storytelling.

[@davidkellingham3405]

Little Mark Lester can be easily spotted at 1:43 when he cheerfully stands up and claps from the 10th row. He is wearing a child tux and is sitted next to co-stars Shani Wallis and Ron Moody (Fagin). Jack Wild was flown from England with Mark but was seated in another row of the Dorothy Chandler, on account he was a nominee for best supporting actor.

[@MrBen51309]

I get that Oliver was probably the safe choice for Best Picture in 1969, but how they could overlook Kubrick's directorial achievement is beyond me...

[@UXB-p5u]

THEY " OVERLOOKED IT " BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR OLIVER A MASTERPIECE WHICH HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME OVER 57 YEARS!!

[@JerseySurvivor]

Another great group of legendary ladies. The only thing missing now from these clips are musical numbers. One guesses it has to do with rights. At any rate, please keep these clips coming. They're a real joy.

[@renatateofilo9887]

Those great 5 ladies joking about no women in film, is much more powerful than wearing black in Golden Globes 2018. We should remember this moment much more.

[@oscarfun100]

TBH, all 5 of those were and are legends and class acts.

[@stvp68]

And the problem persists.....

[@johnyzero2000]

Even though the best actress category had been strong that year with Katherine Hepburn-Lion in Winter, The Antichrist-Funny Girl, Vanessa Redgrave-Isadora, Patricia Neal-The Subject was Roses and Joanne Woodward-Rachel Rachel. Other award worthy contenders Mia Farrow-Rosemary's Baby, Faye Dunaway-The Thomas Crown Affair, Tuesday Weld-Pretty Poison, Liv Ullmann-Hour of the Wolf, Beryl Reid-The Killing of Sister George, Catherine Deneuve-The Mayerling yeah no good roles for actresses in 1968.

[@stvp68]

@@johnyzero2000 But apparently those films weren't considered good enough for Best Pic or Best Director? And why does that mismatch keep happening?

[@gman2010ification]

God, Jane Fonda and Natalie Wood were so gorgeous in those days.

[@lifefource757]

Huge oversight and mistake in not even nominating "2001: A Space Odyssey" for Best Picture.

[@josecarranza7555]

That movie is overrated. It truly is. Over long, pro longed scenes, weird annoying loud sounds at time, it was good for it's time but not really a great movie.

[@theupsndowns8161]

Jose Carranza yeah truly groundbreaking cinematography is stupid

[@JohnDouille]

@@josecarranza7555 lmao you know nothing about cinema

[@seraj3068]

It is nominated

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@josecarranza7555 INNOVATION and TECHNICAL INVENTION, EARNED IT A PLACE IN THE LINE UP ALONE.

[@johnyzero2000]

Shit folks am I dreaming this? Natalie Wood, Dihann Carroll, Rosalind Russell, Jane Fonda and Ingrid Bergman on the same stage???!!!

[@jay_rjabonillo9908]

They should do this again.

[@MrDaiseymay]

NO THEY SHOULDN'T, KEEP ALL THE POLITICS AND GRIPES AWAY FROM THIS ONCE A YEAR CELIBRATION, IT'S PETTY MEAN ,.AND SELFISH TO SPOIL OTHER PEOPLES EVENING.

[@theupsndowns8161]

John Hintergardt Natalie and Jane were so damn cute here🤷‍♂️😊

[@JohnDouille]

They didn't deserve it tho

[@stvp68]

Calling out institutional sexism -- excellent!!!

[@gatewayski1]

Oliver! is one of the more deserving Oscar Winners for Best Picture, a lot of work went into it, and entertaining on every level.

[@MrDaiseymay]

QUITE SO

[@Anaxiphile]

Do not confuse effort and accomplishment.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@Anaxiphile they are rarely at odds with each other

[@fede018]

Oliver is a glorified TV movie.

[@tristramcoffin926]

The choreography alone could win it best picture.

[@prasantabiswas7858]

I know why 2001: A space odyssey didn't win the best picture... Because it's so magnificent, that a Best Picture Oscar will be very small for it!

[@ZulquarPlays0207]

The most important film ever made

[@DSQueenie]

Also to be fair Oliver! Is an amazing film as well.

[@sorenthefilmbrony]

No, Academy. Just... no. Over 2001: A Space Odyssey? No.

[@johnyzero2000]

Agreed but Stanley did win an Oscar that night for special effects.

[@christopherspielbergproduc7128]

Sadly, 2001 wasn't even nominated for Best Picture. :( Likely why it didn't win back then was because critics and audiences gave diverse responses due to the dark apocalyptic tone for those who saw it, probably not seeing it as 'Best Picture' material. But as time went by, 2001 later garnered a cult following and then became one of the best films of all time. If the Academy Awards happened for 1968 again to this day, the Academy would choose 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[@giuseppe8320]

@@rosebud8175 I hope, I really hope that you are joking...

[@tristramcoffin926]

2001 times, yes

[@tristramcoffin926]

I think 2001 is incredibly boring. I've read it set all these benchmarks for technical filmmaking, etc but it isn't an entertaining or affecting film.

[@josephkearny5874]

It should be noted that all of the Best Picture nominees had significant female leads Rachel, Rachel, Funny Girl, Lion in Winter and Romeo and Juliet and Nancy in Oliver was a large part as well.

[@gman2010ification]

Bravo to Sir Carol. Oliver was one of (if not THE) best movie musicals of all time.

[@MrDaiseymay]

ABSOLUTELY

[@haintedhouse3052]

I thought Sir Carol was a true genius to make such a beautiful film.

[@haintedhouse3052]

@Diego Pisfil 2001-one of the best science-fiction films ever made. Oliver-one of the best musical films ever made. to say one wasn't as good as the other is asinine-two different genres.

[@haintedhouse3052]

@Diego Pisfil yes, The 3rd Man was amazing.

[@justinhenry4102]

Seriously Oscars, thank you for posting these vintage wins. I am, like many who subscribe to this channel, are fans of the cinema especially the golden age(s) of film. Keep them coming!

[@CValladares0896]

While I admire Oliver Reed's work and enjoy Oliver! as a very entertaining and cute little musical, it goes without saying that Stanley Kubrick's direction of 2001 was much more deserving of the Oscar this year. Truly a revolutionary film, if only the audience in 1968 could realize it....I like to think that The Tree of Life is going down the same path as 2001 did. When it was released just a few years ago, it was readily dismissed as confusing and boring. But Malick, like Kubrick, is an genius!

[@MarkS1356]

They don't give awards 40 years later. Oliver was a deserving winner.

[@nigelwilliams9307]

Ha ha you lost.

[@ZulquarPlays0207]

​@@MarkS1356 idiot he is talking about 2001: a space odyssey which was released in 1968. It was the most deserving movie of that year😂

[@nickyoude2694]

If Carol Reed didn't win, Anthony Harvey probably would have done.

[@jayy.5663]

While 2001 should've won both awards, Oliver! is still a fantastic movie and it's not like it didn't deserve to win at all.

[@jwelch5742]

Oliver! has great directing and producing. Oliver! became the first and the only G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was the last musical film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture until Chicago.

[@cormacdoheny470]

+jwelch5742 Where Oliver! (1968) bscame the only G-rated film to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year that night, it's also interesting to know that the only X-rated movie to ever win the Best Picture Oscar won the Oscar at the following year's show. That movie, just for the record, was Midnight Cowboy (1969).

[@MrDaiseymay]

A MASTERPIECE

[@tristramcoffin926]

The following year Midnight Cowboy was the only X-rated film to win Best Picture. Talk about your all-time reversals.

[@shobhitbhatnagar729]

Rosemary's baby should have atleast nominated for Best Picture.

[@mdm9389]

That's 1979.

[@rafac7384]

Ok, where is 2001: A Space Odyssey nomination?

[@onirannam]

Natalie with her Bob&Carol hair and Jane with her Shoot Horses hairdo. Love it!

[@ChrisWolff2013]

She was such a gorgeous woman.

[@Dennisanyone-]

Its been a great week if you are an oscar buff with all these vintage clips! Keep em coming! Been looking forward to this one. First instance of a director (in this case anthony harvey of lion in winter) winning the directors guild award but losing the oscar. Again another tough year with the lion in winter and funny girl the favorites. They might have split the vote allowing oliver to take best director and picture.

[@vistaestrada]

Natalie Wood is so tiny yet so adorable!

[@MrDaiseymay]

and so MURDERED

[@rickram1961]

Well Deserved Win for the magnificent "Oliver"

[@sierria64]

Dam Diane Carroll was soo pretty Natalie wood also,

[@richardbullis6263]

Diahann Carroll

[@paulsheldon4057]

Space oddity had good affects but dull has hell zzzzz Oliver is magnificent

[@foxygirl1977]

The sixties were a groovy decade. Love them.

[@josephkearny5874]

Actually The Battle of Algiers remains a modern masterpiece more timely than ever and Pontecorvo should have won for direction.

[@josephkearny5874]

@Diego Pisfil Have you seen The Battle of Algiers? Swapping out Pontecorvo for Wyler is like swapping out a sirloin steak for a McDonald's Happy Meal!

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Natalie Wood and Jane Fonda should have worked in a movie together

[@Harringtonml54]

Both were offered BONNIE AND CLYDE and both turned it down. Enter: Faye Dunaway! Such is history made!

[@cemg.1938]

And Trumpsters complain how modern movie stars are too political and SJW. As this video proves, actresses have been complaining for decades about the lack of good female roles.

[@MrDaiseymay]

only because it was relevant

[@sstavsky]

@@MrDaiseymay And they did it with class.

[@farahvogue6715]

RIP Ingrid Bergman , Natalie wood

[@scorsese86]

Natalie Wood

[@jay_rjabonillo9908]

Jane Fonda's hair is like from They Shoot Horses.

[@FilmDisney]

Huge thanks.

[@amaliapliatsika6980]

I love Romeo and Juliet!!!So vibrand and fresh!!!

[@ladyB930]

Oliver!

[@Winduct]

Can you please upload everything?

[@Harringtonml54]

It is, indeed, Joan Crawford.

[@Harringtonml54]

Yes, it is Joan Crawford and, two people to her left, is Jane Wyman,

[@gman2010ification]

I forgot how gorgeous Jane Fonda was in those days.

[@rr7firefly]

I think that Natalie Wood was always a beautiful babe. And Ingrid Bergman still gorgeous.

[@eu_lucasfer]

She still is.

[@manuellarodrigues]

Rosalind and Ingrid ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@bingovegas4867]

Amazing when you think only one of those 5 are still alive...

[@grant1088]

All these great stars on one stage and only one is still with us jane fonda . 3:16

[@DarkLady13]

Carol Reed, Oliver Reed's Uncle!

[@JerseySurvivor]

I agree with previous post. Please post Angela Lansbury presenting to Jonathan Winters (for Peter Ustinov) or better yet the song sketch she sang from the 1959 show...

[@MissPerriwinkle]

2001 was the peoples fave....

[@44032]

Oliver was a good musical at a time when musicals were going out of favor. I would have ranked it 5th among the films nominated. I wonder if Lyudmila Saveleva ever met Audrey Hepburn.

[@44032]

An additional thought, (7 years later): A list of "Best Picture" winners and a list of the best remembered films of each year would be far from identical and this is a prime example.

[@DSQueenie]

@@44032I have to say I disagree. Oliver! Is still very well loved, as is Funny Girl.

[@manuellarodrigues]

2001 looked so distance for them... only Jane Fonda and Diahann Carroll experienced it!

[@coronaflo]

These comments remind me of the saying "Opinions are like assholes, and every asshole has one".

[@mickeytor]

Leave it to the rebellious 60s to allow those actresses to make a very timely and political statement (with a gay crack by Rosalind Russell, to boot). This would never be allowed today.

[@Whoa802]

Patrick Ross You serious?

[@smilesandapplejuice]

What parallel universe are you from? Modern awards shows are full of social/political statements. And I love them for it!

[@dangrifdhsbxjs8424]

Oliver is the movie that’s on the tele at Christmas all the bloody time

[@colliric]

Cuz it's a masterpiece....

[@dinasztie]

Jane Fonda should present an Oscar every year. :P :)

[@luizantoniotorresalves6669]

O Oscar é pequeno demais perto do universo de Stanley Kubrick...2001 forever.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

The Spice Girls 1970

[@drstranger7430]

Diahan Carroll

[@Harringtonml54]

Has any producer who just received an Oscar for Best Picture been less visibly happy? I've never seen such a dour winner. Perhaps he was so in shock that it just didn't register. [edit: I saw him interviewed elsewhere and he is a very dry, understated fellow. OLIVER! had not been heavily favored to win--THE LION IN WINTER was--so I do think he was somewhat shocked.]

[@MrDaiseymay]

NO--HE WAS THE CORRECT AND JUSTIFIED WINNER., HE IS JUST A RESERVED ENGLISHMAN

[@MrFrogger15]

The Lion in Winter deserved to win...........

[@MrDaiseymay]

BORING

[@summertummer2394]

@@MrDaiseymay Boring?!?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? The Lion in Winter?!?!?!?!? How old are you?

[@MrSkippydevereaux]

At the 3:52-3:53 mark, is this Joan Crawford in a pink dress sitting next to a man?

[@jay_rjabonillo9908]

I have not read that JC had attended the 1969 Oscars. I think her last was 1965.

[@TheFireIdol]

Skippy Devereaux Yes, it's Crawford.

[@JK-kv1xl]

Poor mommies d just left to sit in the audience sporting red hair while Bergman and roz on stage as part of the show. All that was left mowcwas Trog!

[@cihatyildiz3565]

Great scandal.Kubrick should won director award.God dam academy.

[@Mira_Dunia]

Carol Reed directed a great, big-scaled musical and deserved a win. So it might not have been a scandal.

[@32446]

Best musical ever. Well deserved

[@Cunninghamily]

3:39

[@donalddonney1595]

A vintage year

[@lucienbandet2568]

Best musical ever !

[@renegaderunner332]

The 1968 academy awards was weird and totally f*cked up! Oliver wins best picture. A joke! Cliff Robertson wins for Charly. Another joke! Both Barbara Streisand and Katherine Hepburn won for best picture.etc.... It was a bizarre! Period!

[@hcombs0104]

That was a unique way of announcing the winner!

[@queerchoreography54]

Roman Polanski wasn’t even nominated for one of my favorite films of all-time

[@spritelybird]

What a bunch of beauties though. Even Hanoi Jane.

[@TheBifalco]

Natalie Wood….DAMN 😍

[@ATLcentury334]

They were using cue cards?!

[@JackAShepherd]

Oh lord, the only film I might love more than Oliver! is The Lion in Winter :-o

[@wengfong6742]

Funny Girl should have won!

[@juanucedaperez9614]

I don't see 2001...

[@teuborella]

The best: "2001: A space odyssey"

[@enzomendanha8852]

Ok, I get it, Oliver won bp. It is a good film, best picture contender for sure, but in a year competing with Funny Girl and the not nominated in the category 2001? I don’t think so

[@ChicagoMcErin]

They’re there lamenting the lack of progress for women in film! The conversation continues, yeah?

[@supermariofan03]

Best Director should have been: Carol Reed Franco Zeffrelli Roman Polanski Stanley Kubrick (WINNER) Sergio Leone Best Picture should have been: Oliver Funny Girl Romeo and Juliet The Battle of Algiers The Lion in Winter 2001 A Space Odyssey (WINNER) Once Upon a Time in the West Rosemary's Baby The Producers Planet of the Apes

[@summertummer2394]

I assume you have not seen The Lion in Winter... Please do...

[@tinaprivitera6669]

I wish someone would have pulled a Kanye and charged the stage to protest and say that Stanley Kubrick should have won.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

The Women whinging at the beginning 😁

[@eoinMB3949]

Dang Natalie wood was beautiful

[@davidkellingham3405]

Oliver Twist. It is the main character in one of the most famous novels of Charles Dickens, published almost two centuries ago... much earlier than 1968.

[@kernowarty]

Me too back then

[@magicub]

45 years ago and actresses were already complaining about the lack of female leading roles

[@BillGunslinger]

Sergio Leone with Once Upon A Time In The West should have won Most legendary movie from that year

[@waterspout8]

It actually would not have been eligible until the following year, but, yes, time has proven how legendary Leone's films are.

[@Harringtonml54]

Superb film, and the most deserving of the nominees. Overall, it's #2 of that year for me, with ROSEMARY'S BABY at #1, and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at #3.

[@TheTerryE]

Carol Reed was one of the great directors. The Third Man and A Fallen Idol are two of the greatest films ever made. But that presentation was one of the weirdest ever. What was that about?

[@emiliomanueldepedro9650]

Kubrick should've won for Best Director.

[@KetchaWill]

2001: A Space Odyessy should have won both.

[@TheRulerRoderickSutton]

People mistake Kubrick’s high concept film ideas for great directing. Just because you like the film’s plot or production design, does not mean that the director directed the narrative and its images to create a comprehensive telling of the story. Especially when 2001 has no actual story to tell. Kubrick is not a great director: coverage continuity, composing, timing, performances. The equivalent to him now would be Christopher Nolan who is hailed as a “genius” but one who fails time and time again to execute on his big brain ideas-Inception and Tenet being examples.

[@badgermcspoon11]

Wow they were even moaning before I was born.

[@randykirkland3927]

Oscars Silence String Independent Women !

[@FilmDisney]

There is an excellent clip already on the ampas site that should be posted on youtube of the nominated Best Costumes in a musical number, presented by Jane Fonda.

[@P4DR]

Rosemary’s Baby was snubbed big time and Stanley Kubrick should have won for Best Director.

[@TheEuzkatroika]

After all, they were acting..

[@eu_lucasfer]

It's a commonplace saying that Stanley Kubrick should won Best Director. But in that very year, the directors nominated delivered, like Kubrick, some of their best work as you can see in Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo), Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli) and The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey).

[@jayy.5663]

I agree. While I will say that 2001 objectively deserved the Oscars more (although I personally preferred Oliver and Rosemary's Baby), it wasn't as though Oliver didn't deserve to win at all since it was still a fantastic movie; and as you said, it was a very strong year for films in general.

[@josephkearny5874]

Directors also overlooked:Paul Newman Rachel, Rachel, Noel Black Pretty Poison, George Romero Night of the Living Dead, John Cassavettes Faces, and Roman Polanski Rosemary's Baby,

[@josealvaradotarkubrick5851]

se lo merecia kubrick

[@robertrobbins5691]

The Lion in Winter!!

[@ethanwood9124]

I love how no one knows or remembers this movie but 2001: a space odyssey is always talked about the academy is messed yo

[@tristramcoffin926]

Oliver! is literally one of my favorite films of all-time. Have you even seen it?

[@PixarMan2001]

@@tristramcoffin926 One of my top 5 films definitely,

[@josephkearny5874]

Find 2001 an epic bore Gillo Pontecorvo directed a true masterpiece The Battle of Algiers Polanski for Rosemary's Baby should have been a nominee.

[@aliguvenc4769]

The lion in winter should have won

[@DannyBkyn]

How could they not choose Kubrick for 2001???

[@albiehay5567]

Daniel Seib It wasn't very popular at the time and bewildered many critics.

[@SRV2013]

All these nominated films are world classics now. How the film industry has diminished in 50 years. Sad.