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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). ....
The MGM studio and library – from the James Bond, Rocky and RoboCop films to The Handmaid's Tale, The Voice, Survivor and The Apprentice – have been bought ....
Midnight Cowboy, 1969. (Photo by United Artists / Courtesy of Getty Images) With Shooting “Midnight Cowboy”, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and film historian Glenn Frankel completes a trilogy of behind-the-scenes accounts of cinematic cowboy ballads. Of course, technically speaking, John Schlesinger’s 1969 Best Picture winner isn’t a western like High Noon or The Searchers; its 10-gallon-hat hero Joe Buck styles himself after Gary Cooper and John Wayne, but he’s shooting blanks. Played behind blue eyes by a 29-year-old Jon Voigt, Joe is a rootless dreamer, decamping from Texas to the East Coast via Greyhound. Arriving in New York to try his luck as a hustler, he’s quickly reduced to a face in the crowd. From there, ....