Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

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At the 42nd Academy Awards, the film won three awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. [3] [4] It has since been placed 36th on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and 43rd on its 2007 updated version. In 1994, Midnight Cowboy was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. [5] Plot [ edit ]

Popik, Barry (August 22, 2007). "The Big Apple: "If you don't have an oil well, get one!" (Eddie Chiles of Western Company)". The Big Apple. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015 . Retrieved February 14, 2015.Smith, Grady (August 10, 2012). "Monitor: August 10, 2012". Entertainment Weekly. Time. p.27. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021 . Retrieved February 27, 2021. Two exceptions to this rule come at the beginning of the movie, and during the pair’s desolate strolls through the city streets. In both cases, the music is turned up and the dialogue is kept to a minimum. The songs played during these scenes are “Everybody’s Talkin’” and the movie’s theme, “Midnight Cowboy.”

The Birth of Dustin Hoffman". California Birth Records, 1905 Thru 1995. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 . Retrieved February 14, 2015. Monaco, Paul (2001). History of the American Cinema: 1960–1969. The Sixties. Vol.8. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p.166. ISBN 9780520238046. Played during the scene when Joe boards a bus for New York, those lines seem ironic. After all, the cowboy is leaving the warm climes of Texas, dressed like a hired hand from a rodeo. It is only at the end of the movie that the song’s meaning becomes clear.Ferrante & Teicher's version, by far the most successful, reached #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #2 Easy Listening chart. [53] Outside the US, it went to #11 in Canada [54] and #91 in Australia [55] :110 in 1970. Onda, David. "Greatest Unscripted Movie Moments". Xfinity. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012 . Retrieved September 20, 2012. Frankel, Glenn (2020). SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp.175–176. ISBN 9780374209018. Midnight Cowboy (1969)". IMDb. 25 May 1969. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014 . Retrieved March 14, 2014.