Editing Ruth Gordon (section)

=== 1960s ===
In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress]] for ''[[Inside Daisy Clover]]'' opposite [[Natalie Wood]]. It was her first nomination for acting. In 1969, she won an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] for ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'', a film adaptation of [[Ira Levin]]'s bestselling horror novel about a satanic cult residing in an Upper West Side apartment building in Manhattan. In accepting the award onstage at the [[41st Academy Awards]], Gordon thanked the academy by saying "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is ..." (rousing laughter from the audience). At the time she had been in the business for 50 years and was 72 years old. "And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn't: please, excuse me", she added, prompting more laughter and applause.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Skolsky |first=Sidney |date=April 15, 1969 |title=Quake – And a Kiss |work=[[Hollywood Citizen-News]] |page=5 Academy Awards Section}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2024 |title=Ruth Gordon Wins Supporting Actress: 1969 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsLNhH0yjA |access-date=June 25, 2024 |website=[[YouTube]] |via=[[Oscars.org]]}}</ref>

Gordon won another Golden Globe for ''Rosemary's Baby'', and she was nominated again in 1971 for her role as Maude in ''[[Harold and Maude]]'' (with [[Bud Cort]] as her love interest).<ref>{{cite web | title=Ruth Gordon | url=http://www.goldenglobes.com/person/ruth-gordon | access-date=1 November 2016}}</ref>