26th Golden Globe Awards explained

Number:	26
Award:	Golden Globe Awards
Date:	February 24, 1969
Last:	25th
Next:	27th

The 26th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1968, were held on February 24, 1969.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
*The Lion in Winter* Charly The Fixer The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Shoes of the Fisherman	*Oliver!* Finian's Rainbow Funny Girl The Odd Couple Yours, Mine and Ours
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
*Peter O'Toole - The Lion in Winter* as King Henry II** Alan Arkin - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as John Singer Alan Bates - The Fixer as Yakov Bok Tony Curtis - The Boston Strangler as Albert DeSalvo Cliff Robertson - Charly as Charlie Gordon	*Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel* as Rachel Cameron** Mia Farrow - Rosemary's Baby as Rosemary Woodhouse Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora as Isadora Duncan Beryl Reid - The Killing of Sister George as June "George" Buckridge
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
*Ron Moody - Oliver!* as Fagin** Fred Astaire - Finian's Rainbow as Finian McLonergan Jack Lemmon - The Odd Couple as Felix Ungar Walter Matthau - The Odd Couple as Oscar Madison Zero Mostel - The Producers as Max Bialystock	*Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl* as Fanny Brice** Julie Andrews - Star! as Gertrude Lawrence Lucille Ball - Yours, Mine and Ours as Helen North Petula Clark - Finian's Rainbow as Sharon McLongeran Gina Lollobrigida - Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell as Carla Campbell
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Daniel Massey - Star!* as Noël Coward** Beau Bridges - For Love of Ivy as Tim Austin Ossie Davis - The Scalphunters as Joseph Lee Hugh Griffith - Oliver! as the Magistrate Martin Sheen - The Subject Was Roses as Timmy Cleary	*Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby* as Minnie Castevet** Barbara Hancock - Finian's Rainbow as Susan the Silent Abbey Lincoln - For Love of Ivy as Ivy Moore Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick Kelly Jane Merrow - The Lion in Winter as Alais
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter Carol Reed - Oliver! William Wyler - Funny Girl Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet	Charly - Stirling Silliphant The Fixer - Dalton Trumbo The Lion in Winter - James Goldman The Producers - Mel Brooks Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Shoes of the Fisherman - Alex North Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Sherman Brothers The Lion in Winter - John Barry Oliver! - Lionel Bart (declared ineligible and removed from ballot.^[1]) Romeo and Juliet - Nino Rota Rosemary's Baby - Krzysztof Komeda The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand	"The Windmills of Your Mind" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - The Thomas Crown Affair "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell" (Riz Ortolani, Melvin Frank) - Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (Sherman Brothers) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang "Funny Girl" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) - Funny Girl "Star" (Michel Legrand, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - Star!
Best Foreign Film (English Language)	Best Foreign Film (Foreign Language)
Romeo and Juliet (Italy/United Kingdom) Benjamin (France) Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (United Kingdom) Joanna (United Kingdom) Poor Cow (United Kingdom)	War and Peace (USSR) The Bride Wore Black (France) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Yugoslavia) Shame (Sweden) Stolen Kisses (France)
New Star of the Year – Actor	New Star of the Year – Actress
*Leonard Whiting - Romeo and Juliet* as Romeo Montague** Alan Alda - Paper Lion as George Plimpton Daniel Massey - Star! as Noël Coward Michael Sarrazin - The Sweet Ride as Denny McGuire Jack Wild - Oliver! as The Artful Dodger	*Olivia Hussey - Romeo and Juliet* as Juliet Capulet** Ewa Aulin - Candy as Candy Jacqueline Bisset - The Sweet Ride as Vickie Cartwright Barbara Hancock - Finian's Rainbow as Susan the Silent Sondra Locke - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Mick Kelly Leigh Taylor-Young - I Love You, Alice B. Toklas as Nancy

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
7	The Lion in Winter
5	Finian's Rainbow
	Oliver!
	Romeo and Juliet
4	Funny Girl
	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
	Rosemary's Baby
	Star!
3	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
	Charly
	The Fixer
	The Odd Couple
2	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	For Love of Ivy
	The Producers
	Rachel, Rachel
	The Shoes of the Fisherman
	The Sweet Ride
	The Thomas Crown Affair
	Yours, Mine and Ours

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
3	Romeo and Juliet
2	The Lion in Winter
	Oliver!
	Rachel, Rachel

Television

Best Television Series
*Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In* The Carol Burnett Show The Doris Day Show Julia The Name of the Game
Best Performance in a Television Series
Actor	Actress
*Carl Betz - Judd, for the Defense* as Clinton Judd** Raymond Burr - Ironside as Robert T. Ironside Peter Graves - Mission: Impossible as Jim Phelps Dean Martin - The Dean Martin Show as Himself Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - The F.B.I. as Lewis Erskine	*Diahann Carroll - Julia* as Julia Baker** Doris Day - The Doris Day Show as Doris Martin Hope Lange - The Ghost & Mrs. Muir as Carolyn Muir Elizabeth Montgomery - Bewitched as Samantha Stephens Nancy Sinatra - The Nancy Sinatra Show as Various Characters

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
2	The Doris Day Show
2	Julia

Gregory Peck

External links

IMdb 1969 Golden Globe Awards

Notes and References

Web site: Past Winners Database - 1968 26th Golden Globe Awards. The Envelope. Los Angeles Times. 17 Oct 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20070518055856/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1968/1968gg.htm. 18 May 2007.