42nd Academy Awards

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42nd Academy Awards
Date	April 7, 1970
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Produced by	M. J. Frankovich
Directed by	Jack Haley Jr.
Highlights
Best Picture	Midnight Cowboy
Most awards	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (4)
Most nominations	Anne of the Thousand Days (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	2 hours, 25 minutes
Ratings	43.4% (Nielsen ratings)
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The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, though outside North America, Mexico and Brazil were the only countries to broadcast the event live.^[1]

One year after Oliver! became the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated film to win, though its rating was changed in 1971 to R after the MPAA revised its ratings criteria. Only one other X-rated film has been nominated for Best Picture since, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), which was also subsequently downgraded to an R rating (though this was a result of cuts to the original film).

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was later tied with The Poseidon Adventure and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four winning performances came from Best Picture nominated films, as well as the first ceremony in which every acting nomination was in color.