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Midnight Cowboy

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Drama
USA, 1969, 113 min

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One of the British New Wave’s most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida, played by Dustin Hoffman in a radical departure from his breakthrough in The Graduate. A critical and commercial success despite controversy over what the MPAA termed its “homosexual frame of reference”, Midnight Cowboy became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades on, its influence still reverberates through cinema. (Criterion)

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Awards

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Academy Awards

  • 1970 - Best Motion Picture of the Year
  • 1970 - John Schlesinger (Best Achievement in Directing)
  • 1970 - Waldo Salt (Best Adapted Screenplay)
  • 1970 - Dustin Hoffman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
  • 1970 - Jon Voight (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
  • 1970 - Sylvia Miles (Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role)
  • 1970 - Best Achievement in Film Editing