Midnight Cowboy and the 42nd Academy Awards

The Worthy Boys are becoming city slickers as we head north to the Big Apple to celebrate John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy (1969) starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight! Everybody’s watching and wondering what’s on our minds. Well, it’s Ratso/Rizzo and Joe Buck trying to hustle their way through New York City, that’s what! This incredible picture explores the depths of New York City you rarely see while also being a personal and intimate story about self-discovery. 

Times are changing as we reach the end of the 60s and enter into The New Hollywood. The Oscars are now international Over the winter and the Board of Governors finalized a radical new plan: anyone who had not been active in the movie industry for seven years would be made an "associate" member, without an Oscar vote – in other words put “out on the icebergs to die." This is the end and beginning of Cowboys as John Wayne finally wins his Best Actor Oscar for True Grit.  

Is Midnight Cowboy worthy of the Best Picture award of 1969? Tell us how we’re wrong at worthysubmissions@gmail.com