MIDNIGHT COWBOY Italian locandina R80

Midnight Cowboy, the classic 1969 John Schlesinger male prostitution sex melodrama (Best Director & Best Picture Academy Award winner; about a naive Texan who moves to New York to become a male prostitute for wealthy women, and ends up in a "close" relationship with a male street hustler; "Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy") starring Dustin Hoffman (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role as Ratso Rizzo), Jon Voight (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role as Joe Buck), Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), Barnard Hughes, Viva (born Janet Hoffman to a wealthy devout Catholic family with 8 children, she met Andy Warhol in the 1960s, and became one of his "family" of actors who appeared in most of his movies), Gastone Rossilli, Ultra Violet, and Bob Balaban. This was the first (and only) adult movie to win a Best Picture Oscar. Dustin Hoffman not winning the Best Actor Academy Award was certainly the biggest mistake in the history of the Academy Awards!