<P> The year was notable for the first--and so far, only--tie for Best Actress (or any female acting category). Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl shared the award . Hepburn also became the second actress and third performer overall to win an acting Oscar two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (The Great Ziegfeld) and 1937 (The Good Earth), and Spencer Tracy in 1937 (Captains Courageous) and 1938 (Boys Town). The previous year, Hepburn had won Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner . </P> <P> As the special effects director and designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects this year . It was the only Oscar he would ever win . </P> <P> Cliff Robertson's performance in Charly was met with a generally mixed reception from critics and audiences . When he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, it engendered some controversy: less than two weeks after the ceremony, TIME mentioned the Academy's generalized concerns over "excessive and vulgar solicitation of votes" and said "many members agreed that Robertson's award was based more on promotion than on performance ." </P> <P> At the ceremony, Young Americans was announced as the Documentary Feature winner . On May 7, 1969, the film was disqualified because it had played in October 1967, thus making it ineligible for a 1968 award . Journey Into Self, the first runner - up, was awarded the Oscar on May 8, 1969 . </P>

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