April 7th 1970
The 42nd Annual Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and had no official host. The Academy celebrated the year 1969 in film.
The big news for a lot of film fans was that John Wayne was nominated again for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his turn as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit". This was his 2nd nomination in the category, the first was 1949 for his role in "The Sands of Iow Jima".
I agree with him winning the Award I will say for me his best role was in his last film "The Shootist" in 1976.
Here he is accepting the award from Barbra Streisand and he mentions that he finally gets to accept for himself instead of for friends winning awards that weren't attending the ceremonies.
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