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 ...

As the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy broke barriers — but Maxwell Musick’s latest single, “Midnight Cowboy,” hinges on expectations.

Despite Harry Nilsson's hit song "Everybody's Talking" for the soundtrack, 1969's "Midnight Cowboy" has been missing from the conversation around groundbreaking New American cinema. The film, starring ...

During the Vietnam War in 1969, the U.S. was in political chaos and social upheaval, but arts and culture were thriving. When the provocative film "Midnight Cowboy" was released that year, it ...