Once some of the cast members got wind of the X rating, they thought their acting careers were kaput. "We said, 'We have big ...

John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, despite being controversial enough to earn an X-rating on its release May 25, 1969. It played an ...

The most quoted moment of the film was never intended.

Image Credit: A still from 'Midnight Cowboy' (1969) (Image: United Artists) Few movie quotes have become as closely ...

“Midnight Cowboy” begins inconspicuously. Joe Buck, a 6-foot-4 stud, stands in front of mirror, clad in full cowboy regalia, a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. As Harry Nilson’s classic song ...

Jerome Hellman, the Oscar-winning producer of the groundbreaking 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy,” has died. He was 92. Over the course of his career, Hellman also worked on 1964’s “The World of Henry ...

In 'Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic,' out March 16, Frankel explores the origins of the Oscar-winning film and how it ultimately signaled a ...

Decades from now, when people wonder what New York City was like in the late ’60s, all they’ll have to do is watch “Midnight Cowboy.” Released 50 years ago, on May 25, 1969, it shows the city in its ...

When it opened in the theaters in 1969, John Schlesinger’s masterpiece Midnight Cowboy shook Hollywood to its core. The story of wannabe hustler, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), and his limping, brash ...

In recent years the Assembly Rooms, one of the major venues on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has hit upon the commercial potential of putting much-loved Hollywood movies on the stage. It is here that ...

Producer Jerome Hellman was known for working on the only X-rated movie to win an Academy Award Jerome Hellman, who produced films like Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home, is dead at the age of 92.