26th Golden Globes

26th Golden Globe Awards
26th Golden Globe Awards
Date	February 24, 1969
	← 25th; Golden Globes; 27th →;

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

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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 - The Fixer as Lebedev 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

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

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

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

Nominations	Title
2	The Doris Day Show
2	Julia

26th Golden Globes

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