Midnight Cowboy: 1969 Best Picture

“Anne of the Thousand Days” got the most nominations (10) at the 42nd Academy Awards, and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” won the most awards (4), but neither of them won Best Picture. That honor went to “Midnight Cowboy” starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. They were both nominated for Best Actor, but that one went to John Wayne in “True Grit”.

Other 1969 flicks that were nominated for awards included “Hello, Dolly!” and “Z” (the other 2 Best Picture nominees), “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”, “Marooned”, “Easy Rider”, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, and “The Wild Bunch”.

Jeopardy! clues on the “Midnight Cowboy”
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN… $400: The role of Joe Buck in this film made Jon Voight a star, but it was originally meant for Michael Sarrazin
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES $1600: Hopefully the Urban Decay make-up with the name of this 1969 film won’t make you look like Ratso Rizzo
X-RATED $800: This 1969 buddy pic was the first X-rated film to win best picture
HITS OF THE ’60s $800: Nilsson’s 1969 hit “Everybody’s Talkin'” served as the theme song to this Oscar-winning film
THE TALES OF DUSTIN HOFFMAN $800: “Frankly, you’re beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that’s a handicap”, says Dustin in this 1969 film
BOB DYLAN $500: Bob’s “Lay Lady Lay” was considered for this 1969 Jon Voight film, but didn’t make the soundtrack
NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in New York’s Times Square) Times Square looked pretty seedy when Jon Voight hung out here in this 1969 film

More 1969 film clues:
LETTER SECRET IDENTITIES $400: “Z” is the title of the 1969 movie that won an Oscar in this category
THEME $1000: Rod McKuen wrote & sang “Jean”, the theme song of this 1969 Maggie Smith film
HELP ME, FONDA $1200: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda helps a young Jack Nicholson loosen up
MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: From 1969’s “Take the Money and Run” through 2011, he has released a new film in all but 4 years
NICE “BUN”s $400: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden led a “Wild” one
“AZ” I WAS SAYING $800: The title of this 1969 Alfred Hitchcock film comes from the code name of a French spy ring
BUTCH CASSIDY $600: Name of the gang Butch led on numerous rampages, or a 1969 Peckinpah film
MOVIE TITLES! $800: In 1969 it was Bonjour, Babs! when Streisand & Matthau hit the screen in this film
MOVIE MUSICALS $200: The title robot of this 2008 animated film learns about human emotion by watching a video of the 1969 film “Hello, Dolly!”
COUNTRY MUSIC STARS ON FILM $2000: In a 1969 film he showed some “True Grit” as John Wayne’s young sidekick
ON THE ROAD $1600: Hey man, hit the road with Wyatt & Billy, man & check out Phil Spector as Connection in this 1969 film, man
BIRTHSTONES $800: In a 1969 Hitchcock film, a spy ring has this code name, also November’s birthstone
NEWMAN’S OWN $400: 1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, “Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals”
“EASY” FOR YOU TO SAY $800: Before he was TV’s Grizzly Adams, Dan Haggerty helped build some of the custom motorcycles for this 1969 film
CARS $200: In a 1969 Disney film, Herbie was this model of car
SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $400: This actor who owns his own ski resort did much of his own skiing in the 1969 film “Downhill Racer”
SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a 1969 film, Dean Martin’s daughter Claudia & this star of “Adam-12” got “Ski Fever”
COUNTRY SINGERS WHO ACT $600: Glen Campbell co-starred in this 1969 film, but unlike John Wayne, he didn’t win an Oscar for it
“BU” WHO $1600: In the 1969 film “Anne of the Thousand Days”, she played Anne Boleyn
FONDA THE MOVIES $200: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper hit the road on their motorcycles to find America
’60s POP QUIZ $400: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” went to No. 1 after it was featured in this 1969 film
HOT “BUN”s $100: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden & Ernest Borgnine were part of a “Wild” one
JACK NICHOLSON $800 (Daily Double): In this 1969 film Jack wonders, “This used to be a fine country. What went wrong?”
DUKE $300: This 1969 film earned John Wayne an Oscar; must have been the eye patch
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: She was the teen star of the 1969 film “A Walk with Love and Death”, directed by her dad, John Huston
WESTERNS $600: “Rooster Cogburn” was a 1975 sequel to this 1969 John Wayne film
THE MOVIES $600: In this 1969 film Robert Duvall told John Wayne, “I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man”
HE WAS IN THAT? $1000: In 1969, in his pre-“Phantom” days, he played Cornelius Hackl in the film version of “Hello, Dolly!”
’60s FLICKS $800: One book abbreviated this 1969 film “B&C&T&A”
JOHN WAYNE FILMS $200: John Wayne won his Oscar for playing marshall Rooster Cogburn in this 1969 film
THE MOVIES $300: This one-letter Yves Montand film won 1969 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film & Best Film Editing
BATTLES $200: Term for the 1940-1941 air war over England, or the title of a 1969 film about it
“APRIL” SONGS $400: Title song of the 1969 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve