| While working on this
website, I watched Midnight Cowboy for the first time in
many years. The film has held up for me. Dustin
Hoffman's performances as Rico "Ratso" Rizzo is
incredible. Unfortunately for Mr. Hoffman, he was nominated
for an Academy Award in the same category as his co-star, Jon
Voight, Richard Burton for Anne
of a Thousand Days, one of my favorite actors, Peter
O'Toole in Goodbye
Mr. Chips, and John Wayne is True
Grit. John Wayne took home the Academy
Award.
It's hard to believe that this film
was ever rated X (now NC-17). It would barely get an R
rating now but, for 1969, it was rated X and remains the only
X-rated film to be awarded an Academy Award. Academy Awards
were also presented to John Schlesinger for best director and
Waldo Salt's screenplay, adapted from James Leo Herlihy's
book. It's story of friendship between two unlikely allies
who are both societal misfits. It's still a great film |
