Search Results for: Academy Award Best Director Midnight Cowboy (1969)

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[…] Voight. It was the first X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Schlesinger himself won the […]

[…] that movie was in the last three for the Focal Awards that year. And. So we didn't get them gong […]