The 1969 Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.
| Best Picture | Anne of the Thousand Days, Hal B. Wallis, producer (Universal) |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, John Foreman, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Hello, Dolly!, Ernest Lehman, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Midnight Cowboy, Jerome Hellman, producer (United Artists) |
| Z, Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, producers (Cinema V) |
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 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Archive Photos |
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| Best Actor | Richard Burton, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy |
| Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy |
| John Wayne, True Grit |
| Best Actress | Genevieve Bujold, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Jane Fonda, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Liza Minnelli, The Sterile Cuckoo |
| Jean Simmons, The Happy Ending |
| Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Rupert Crosse, The Reivers |
| Elliott Gould, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
| Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider |
| Anthony Quayle, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Catherine Burns, Last Summer |
| Dyan Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
| Goldie Hawn, Cactus Flower |
| Sylvia Miles, Midnight Cowboy |
| Susannah York, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Directing | Costa-Gavras, Z |
| George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| Arthur Penn, Alice's Restaurant |
| Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy |
| Writing | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | John Hale and Bridget Boland, screenplay; Richard Sokolove, adaptation, Anne of the Thousand Days | | James Poe and Robert E. Thompson, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | | Waldo Salt, Midnight Cowboy | | Arnold Schulman, Goodbye, Columbus | | Jorge Semprun and Costa-Gavras, Z | | Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced | Nicola Badalucco, story; Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli and Luchino Visconti, screenplay, The Damned | | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern, Easy Rider | | William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | | Walon Green and Roy N. Sickner, story; Walon Green and Sam Peckinpah, screenplay, The Wild Bunch | | Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
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| Cinematography | Daniel Fapp, Marooned |
| Conrad Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| Arthur Ibbetson, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Charles B. Lang, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |
| Harry Stradling, Hello, Dolly! |
| Art Direction | Robert Boyle and George B. Chan, art direction; Edward Boyle and Carl Biddiscombe, set decoration, Gaily, Gaily |
| Maurice Carter and Lionel Couch, art direction; Patrick McLoughlin, set decoration, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| John DeCuir, Jack Martin Smith and Herman Blumenthal, art direction; Walter M. Scott, George Hopkins and Raphael Bretton, set decoration, Hello, Dolly! |
| Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb, art direction; Jack D. Moore, set decoration, Sweet Charity |
| Harry Horner, art direction; Frank McKelvy, set decoration, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Sound | John Aldred, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| William Edmundson and David Dockendorf, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
| Les Fresholtz and Arthur Piantadosi, Marooned |
| Robert Martin and Clem Portman, Gaily, Gaily |
| Jack Solomon and Murray Spivack, Hello, Dolly! |
| Music | | Song | “Come Saturday Morning,” The Sterile Cuckoo, Fred Karlin, music; Dory Previn, lyrics | | “Jean,” The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Rod McKuen, music and lyrics | | “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Burt Bacharach, music; Hal David, lyrics | | “True Grit,” True Grit, Elmer Bernstein, music; Don Black, lyrics | | “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” The Happy Ending, Michel Legrand, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics | | Original Score for a Motion Picture, Not a Musical | Burt Bacharach, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | | Georges Delerue, Anne of the Thousand Days | | Jerry Fielding, The Wild Bunch | | Ernest Gold, The Secret of Santa Vittoria | | John Williams, The Reivers | | Score of a Musical Picture, Original or Adaptation | Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics; John Williams, score, Goodbye, Mr. Chips | | Cy Coleman, Sweet Charity | | John Green and Albert Woodbury, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | | Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman, Hello, Dolly! | | Nelson Riddle, Paint Your Wagon |
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| Film Editing | Françoise Bonnot, Z |
| William Lyon and Earle Herdan, The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| William Reynolds, Hello, Dolly! |
| Hugh A. Robertson, Midnight Cowboy |
| Fredric Steinkamp, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Costume Design | Ray Aghayan, Gaily, Gaily |
| Donfeld, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| Margaret Furse, Anne of the Thousand Days |
| Edith Head, Sweet Charity |
| Irene Sharaff, Hello, Dolly! |
| Special Visual Effects | Eugene Lourie and Alex Weldon, Krakatoa, East of Java |
| Robbie Robertson, Marooned |
| Short Subjects | | Cartoon | It's Tough to Be a Bird (Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista) | | Of Men and Demons (Hubley Studios; Paramount) | | Walking (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia) | | Live Action | Blake (National Film Board of Canada; Vaudeo, Inc.) | | The Magic Machines (Fly-By-Night Productions; Manson Distributing) | | People Soup (Pangloss Productions; Columbia) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Czechoslovakia 1968 (Sanders-Fresco Film Makers for the U.S. Information Agency) | | An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (Donald Wrye Productions for the U.S. Information Agency) | | Jenny Is a Good Thing (A.C.I. Prod. for Project Head Start) | | Leo Beuerman (Arthur H. Wolf and Russell A. Mosser, producers; Centron Production) | | The Magic Machines (Fly-By-Night Productions; Manson Distributing) | | Feature | Arthur Rubinstein—The Love of Life (Bernard Chevry, producer; Midem Production) | | Before the Mountain Was Moved (Robert K. Sharpe Productions for the Office of Economic Opportunity) | | In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, producer; Emile de Antonio Production) | | The Olympics in Mexico (Film Section of the Organizing Committee for the XIX Olympic Games) | | The Wolf Men (Irwin Rosten, producer; MGM) |
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| Foreign Language Film (tie) | Adalen '31, Sweden |
| The Battle of Neretva, Yugoslavia |
| The Brothers Karamazov, U.S.S.R. |
| My Night With Maud, France |
| Z, Algeria |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | George Jessel |
| Honorary Award | To Cary Grant for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues |
