Midnight Cowboy

In 1969, United Artists released the film Midnight Cowboy, starring Jon Voight (Joe Buck) and Dustin Hoffman (Ratso Rizzo) as street hustlers in NYC. It became the first X-rated movie to be nominated and win a Best Picture Oscar. In all, the film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It Is the only X-rated film ever to a win Best Picture Oscar, although its rating has since been changed to R. The films “A Clockwork Orange” and “Last Tango in Paris” had X-rated nominations although they did not win Best Picture.