Schlesinger's next film, "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), was internationally acclaimed. A story of two hustlers living on the fringe in the bad side of New York City, it was Schlesinger's first film shot in the US, and it won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. During the 1970s, he made an array of films that were mainly about loners, losers and people outside the mainstream world, such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1971), "The Day of the Locust" (1975), "Marathon Man" (1976) and "Yanks" (1979). Later, came the major box office and critical failure of "Honky Tonk Freeway" (1981), followed by films that attracted mixed responses from the public, and low returns, although "The Falcon and the Snowman" (1985) made money and "Pacific Heights" (1990) was a box-office hit. In Britain, he did better with films like "Madame Sousatzka" (1988) and "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995). Other later works include "An Englishman Abroad" (1983), the TV play "A Question of Attribution" (1991), "The Innocent" (1993) and "The Next Best Thing" (2000).