1968 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees

The AwardWentTo archive contains 107 Academy Award records for the 1968 film year, covering 52 films and including 25 wins.

Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.

1969 → ← 1967

Best Picture result

5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history

Acting category results

Leading winning films

Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.

  1. Oliver!

    6 wins from 12 award records

  2. The Lion in Winter

    3 wins from 7 award records

  3. Romeo and Juliet

    2 wins from 4 award records

  4. Funny Girl

    1 win from 8 award records

  5. 2001: A Space Odyssey

    1 win from 4 award records

  6. Planet of the Apes

    1 win from 3 award records

Category winners

Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.

Nominations and award records by category

Showing 107 of 107 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.

Best Picture

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actress

Art Direction

Cinematography

Costume Design

Best Director

Documentary Feature

  • ★ Journey into Self IMDB — Bill McGaw, Producer
    Source context

    NOTE: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.

  • A Few Notes on Our Food Problem IMDB — James Blue, Producer
  • The Legendary Champions IMDB — William Cayton, Producer
  • Other Voices IMDB — David H. Sawyer, Producer
  • Young Americans IMDB — Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, Producers
    Source context

    NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self, was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.

Documentary Short Subject

Film Editing

Honorary Award

  • ★ Planet of the Apes IMDB — John Chambers
    Source context

    To John Chambers for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes.

  • ★ Oliver! IMDB — Onna White
    Source context

    To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!

International Feature Film

Original Score

Original Song

Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)

Animated Short Film

Live Action Short Film

Sound Mixing

Visual Effects

Adapted Screenplay

Original Screenplay

Nominated films and other recorded entries

52 films represented in the 1968 archive selection.

About these award records

This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.

Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.

Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.

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