42nd Academy Awards by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees, as well as the first time where every acting nomination, as well as every major nominated film, was in color. This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the ABC television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (broadcasting the event since 1953, but only live since 1964), only two South American
42nd Academy Awards Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live. This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings. The record, , remains unbroken thanks to the emergence of the Super Bowl as the biggest annual event of awards season. "Midnight Cowboy" became the first and so far, the only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture, Carol Reed's "Oliver!". "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" set an Oscar record