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Best Actor Comedy or Musical | 1970 | Dustin
Best Screenplay | 1970 | John
Best Actress Comedy or Musical | 1970 | Mia
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium | 1970 | John
When Ruth Gordon won her Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for Rosemary's Baby (1968) in April 1969, she was asked backstage by the reporters if Mia Farrow was upset at being overlooked for a nomination in the same film. "Nahhh", Gordon replied, "Besides she'll win it next year for John and Mary (1969)." Alas, Farrow was snubbed for this film as well.
An uncredited Jeff Bridges sang his own song "Lost In Space" on the soundtrack of this movie.
The magazine in Mary's apartment which John is seen reading is the quarterly British film magazine "Sight And Sound"; it is the Winter 1968/9 issue. Whilst this was the current issue at the time of filming, it is perhaps not a coincidence that it contains a detailed and highly laudatory article about "Rosemary's Baby", starring Mia Farrow, and a rave review of "Bullitt", directed by Peter Yates. A later issue of the magazine praised "John And Mary", too.
The original novel is set in London and features exclusively British characters. The first several versions of the screenplay by John Mortimer retained these settings and characters, but Peter Yates was unable to set it up as a British film, and so the script was rewritten for New York characters and settings. However, Mortimer was kept on for these rewrites; it was his only screenplay for an American-made film.
Olympia Dukakis is only six years older than Dustin Hoffman who plays her son.
"Mary: I don't want anymore to do with it. Not with jealousy, competition, the sound of bugles when we're all meant to line up for battle. When the bugle blows, I want to go home quietly. Lock the door, take off the telephone. I'll wash my hair, watch the saturday night movie and go to bed with a plate of cornflakes. I can do that most efficiently. I can vanish."
"John: The great thing is, if men can cook at all, women think it's wonderful. Mary: Well, it is. John: No, it's not. It's really a legend. Like sex and black men."
