Midnight Cowboy and Butch Cassidy Wins Writing Awards: 1970 Oscars

Katharine Ross and Jon Voight presenting the Oscar® for Writing (Screenplay — based on material from another medium) to Waldo Salt for “Midnight Cowboy,” and James Earl Jones and Ali MacGraw presenting the Oscar® for Writing (Story and Screenplay — based on material not previously published or produced) to William Goldman for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” at the 42nd Academy Awards.