April 7 - Academy Awards
Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy (which was X-Rated at that time.)
Best Actor- Male: John Wayne (True Grit)
Best Actor- Female: Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Needless to say this was quite a shock to the cultural nervous system in April 1970. There was a "culture war" going on that was the Vietnam War, hippies, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Midnight Cowboy represented that whole shift along with
Easy Rider, which was also a 1969 film, and M*A*S*H released a few months earlier in 1970.
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