Midnight Cowboy | |
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Directed by | John Schlesinger |
Written by | James Leo Herlihy (novel) Waldo Salt (screenplay) |
Produced by | Jerome Hellman |
Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight |
Cinematography | Adam Holender |
Edited by | Hugh A. Robertson |
Music by | Fred Neil ("Everybody's Talkin'", sung by Harry Nilsson)
Jeffrey Comanor, Floyd Huddleston Warren Zevon (songs), John Barry |
Production companies | Florin Productions, Jerome Hellman Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | May 25, 1969 |
Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English/Italian |
Budget | $3.6 million |
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama movie, released by United Artists. John Schlesinger directed it, and Waldo Salt wrote the screenplay based on the James Leo Herlihy novel. It stars Dustin Hoffman (in his first starring role after The Graduate), along with Jon Voight in the title role.
It is the only X-rated movie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.[1] Schlesinger won a Best Director Award; both Hoffman and Voight were nominated for Best Actor.
In 1971, it was given the "R" rating by the MPAA. Apart from this, nothing was changed in the movie.