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Midnight Cowboy Best Picture Oscar winner Jerome Hellman dies at 92 Jolie Lash Jerome Hellman, the Hollywood producer behind 1969 s The Mosquito Coast, has died at 92. Elizabeth Empleton Hellman, his wife, confirmed he passed away on May 26, telling Deadline, we will miss him terribly. Hellman took home the Best Picture Academy Award at the 42nd ceremony for Midnight Cowboy the first and only X-rated film to nab the top prize. According to Vanity Fair, after the film took Best Picture, Hellman and director John Schlesinger were allegedly asked to make edits to get it to an R rating, something they passed on doing. (It did, however, end up with an R rating in 1971). ....