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The 44th Academy Awards
| 1972
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Monday, April 10, 1972
Honoring movies released in 1971
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Highlights
Best Directing
The French Connection
William Friedkin
Honorary Award
Charlie Chaplin
Best Actress
Klute
Jane Fonda
Memorable Moments
Ben Johnson
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Supporting Actor winner for The Last Picture Show, with presenters Richard Harris and Sally Kellerman
Isaac Hayes
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Original Song winner for "Theme from Shaft" from Shaft
Cloris Leachman
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Supporting Actress winner for The Last Picture Show with Raquel Welch and Gene Hackman
WINNERS & NOMINEES
Actor
Winner
Gene Hackman
The French Connection
Nominees
Peter Finch
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Nominees
Walter Matthau
Kotch
Nominees
George C. Scott
The Hospital
Nominees
Topol
Fiddler on the Roof
Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
Nominees
Jeff Bridges
The Last Picture Show
Nominees
Leonard Frey
Fiddler on the Roof
Nominees
Richard Jaeckel
Sometimes a Great Notion
Nominees
Roy Scheider
The French Connection
Actress
Winner
Jane Fonda
Klute
Nominees
Julie Christie
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Nominees
Glenda Jackson
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Nominees
Vanessa Redgrave
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nominees
Janet Suzman
Nicholas and Alexandra
Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show
Nominees
Ann-Margret
Carnal Knowledge
Nominees
Ellen Burstyn
The Last Picture Show
Nominees
Barbara Harris
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me?
Nominees
Margaret Leighton
The Go-Between
Art Direction
Winner
Nicholas and Alexandra
Art Direction: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
Nominees
The Andromeda Strain
Art Direction: Boris Leven, William Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby Levitt
Nominees
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Nominees
Fiddler on the Roof
Art Direction: Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
Nominees
Mary, Queen of Scots
Art Direction: Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
Cinematography
Winner
Fiddler on the Roof
Oswald Morris
Nominees
The French Connection
Owen Roizman
Nominees
The Last Picture Show
Robert Surtees
Nominees
Nicholas and Alexandra
Freddie Young
Nominees
Summer of '42
Robert Surtees
Costume Design
Winner
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Nominees
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bill Thomas
Nominees
Death in Venice
Piero Tosi
Nominees
Mary, Queen of Scots
Margaret Furse
Nominees
What's the Matter with Helen?
Morton Haack
Directing
Winner
The French Connection
William Friedkin
Nominees
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Nominees
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison
Nominees
The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich
Nominees
Sunday Bloody Sunday
John Schlesinger
Documentary (Feature)
Winner
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green, Producer
Nominees
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Alan Landsburg, Producer
Nominees
On Any Sunday
Bruce Brown, Producer
Nominees
The RA Expeditions
Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers
Nominees
The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophuls, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Winner
Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Nominees
Adventures in Perception
Han van Gelder, Producer
Nominees
Art Is...
Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
Nominees
The Numbers Start with the River
Donald Wrye, Producer
Nominees
Somebody Waiting
Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens, Producers
Film Editing
Winner
The French Connection
Jerry Greenberg
Nominees
The Andromeda Strain
Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes
Nominees
A Clockwork Orange
Bill Butler
Nominees
Kotch
Ralph E. Winters
Nominees
Summer of '42
Folmar Blangsted
Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Italy
Nominees
Dodes'ka-Den
Japan
Nominees
The Emigrants
Sweden
Nominees
The Policeman
Israel
Nominees
Tchaikovsky
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Music (Original Dramatic Score)
Winner
Summer of '42
Michel Legrand
Nominees
Mary, Queen of Scots
John Barry
Nominees
Nicholas and Alexandra
Richard Rodney Bennett
Nominees
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Nominees
Straw Dogs
Jerry Fielding
Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
Winner
Fiddler on the Roof
Adaptation Score by John Williams
Nominees
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
Nominees
The Boy Friend
Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
Nominees
Tchaikovsky
Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
Nominees
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
Music (Song—Original for the Picture)
Winner
Shaft
Theme From Shaft in "Shaft" Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes
Nominees
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Age Of Not Believing in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Nominees
Sometimes a Great Notion
All His Children in "Sometimes a Great Notion" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Nominees
Bless the Beasts & Children
Bless The Beasts & Children in "Bless the Beasts & Children" Music and Lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
Nominees
Kotch
Life Is What You Make It in "Kotch" Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Best Picture
Winner
The French Connection
Philip D'Antoni, Producer
Nominees
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick, Producer
Nominees
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison, Producer
Nominees
The Last Picture Show
Stephen J. Friedman, Producer
Nominees
Nicholas and Alexandra
Sam Spiegel, Producer
Short Subject (Animated)
Winner
The Crunch Bird
Ted Petok, Producer
Nominees
Evolution
Michael Mills, Producer
Nominees
The Selfish Giant
Peter Sander and Murray Shostak, Producers
Short Subject (Live Action)
Winner
Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Nominees
Good Morning
Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald, Producers
Nominees
The Rehearsal
Stephen F. Verona, Producer
Sound
Winner
Fiddler on the Roof
Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Nominees
Diamonds Are Forever
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton
Nominees
The French Connection
Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman
Nominees
Kotch
Richard Portman, Jack Solomon
Nominees
Mary, Queen of Scots
Bob Jones, John Aldred
Special Visual Effects
Winner
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Nominees
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken
Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Winner
The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman
Nominees
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
Nominees
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci
Nominees
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
Nominees
The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Writing (Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
Winner
The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
Nominees
Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Nominees
Klute
Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis
Nominees
Summer of '42
Herman Raucher
Nominees
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Penelope Gilliatt
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Adventures in Perception
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Han van Gelder, Producer
Alaska Wilderness Lake
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Alan Landsburg, Producer
The Andromeda Strain
2 NOMINATIONS
- Art Direction - Art Direction: Boris Leven, William Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby Levitt
- Film Editing - Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes
On Any Sunday
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Bruce Brown, Producer
Art Is...
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
B
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
5 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Special Visual Effects - Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
- Art Direction - Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
- Costume Design - Bill Thomas
- Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) - Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - The Age Of Not Believing in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Bless the Beasts & Children
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - Bless The Beasts & Children in "Bless the Beasts & Children" Music and Lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
The Boy Friend
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) - Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
C
Carnal Knowledge
1 NOMINATION
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Ann-Margret
A Clockwork Orange
4 NOMINATIONS
- Directing - Stanley Kubrick
- Film Editing - Bill Butler
- Best Picture - Stanley Kubrick, Producer
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Stanley Kubrick
The Conformist
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Bernardo Bertolucci
The Crunch Bird
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Short Subject (Animated) - Ted Petok, Producer
D
Death in Venice
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design - Piero Tosi
Diamonds Are Forever
1 NOMINATION
- Sound - Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton
Dodes'ka-Den
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Japan
E
The Emigrants
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Sweden
Evolution
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Animated) - Michael Mills, Producer
F
Fiddler on the Roof
8 NOMINATIONS,
3 WINS
- * Cinematography - Oswald Morris
- * Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) - Adaptation Score by John Williams
- * Sound - Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
- Actor - Topol
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Leonard Frey
- Art Direction - Art Direction: Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
- Directing - Norman Jewison
- Best Picture - Norman Jewison, Producer
The French Connection
8 NOMINATIONS,
5 WINS
- * Actor - Gene Hackman
- * Directing - William Friedkin
- * Film Editing - Jerry Greenberg
- * Best Picture - Philip D'Antoni, Producer
- * Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Ernest Tidyman
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Roy Scheider
- Cinematography - Owen Roizman
- Sound - Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman
G
The Garden of the Finzi Continis
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Foreign Language Film - Italy
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
The Go-Between
1 NOMINATION
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Margaret Leighton
Good Morning
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald, Producers
H
The Hellstrom Chronicle
1 WIN,
1 NOMINATION
- * Documentary (Feature) - Walon Green, Producer
The Hospital
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Paddy Chayefsky
- Actor - George C. Scott
I
Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion
1 NOMINATION
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
K
Klute
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Actress - Jane Fonda
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis
Kotch
4 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Walter Matthau
- Film Editing - Ralph E. Winters
- Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - Life Is What You Make It in "Kotch" Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
- Sound - Richard Portman, Jack Solomon
L
The Last Picture Show
8 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Actor in a Supporting Role - Ben Johnson
- * Actress in a Supporting Role - Cloris Leachman
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Jeff Bridges
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Ellen Burstyn
- Cinematography - Robert Surtees
- Directing - Peter Bogdanovich
- Best Picture - Stephen J. Friedman, Producer
- Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
M
Mary, Queen of Scots
5 NOMINATIONS
- Actress - Vanessa Redgrave
- Art Direction - Art Direction: Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
- Costume Design - Margaret Furse
- Music (Original Dramatic Score) - John Barry
- Sound - Bob Jones, John Aldred
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1 NOMINATION
- Actress - Julie Christie
N
Nicholas and Alexandra
6 NOMINATIONS,
2 WINS
- * Art Direction - Art Direction: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
- * Costume Design - Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
- Actress - Janet Suzman
- Cinematography - Freddie Young
- Music (Original Dramatic Score) - Richard Rodney Bennett
- Best Picture - Sam Spiegel, Producer
The Numbers Start with the River
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Donald Wrye, Producer
P
The Policeman
1 NOMINATION
- Foreign Language Film - Israel
R
The RA Expeditions
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers
The Rehearsal
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Live Action) - Stephen F. Verona, Producer
S
The Selfish Giant
1 NOMINATION
- Short Subject (Animated) - Peter Sander and Murray Shostak, Producers
Sentinels of Silence
2 WINS,
2 NOMINATIONS
- * Documentary (Short Subject) - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
- * Short Subject (Live Action) - Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Shaft
2 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - Theme From Shaft in "Shaft" Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes
- Music (Original Dramatic Score) - Isaac Hayes
Somebody Waiting
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Short Subject) - Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens, Producers
Sometimes a Great Notion
2 NOMINATIONS
- Actor in a Supporting Role - Richard Jaeckel
- Music (Song--Original for the Picture) - All His Children in "Sometimes a Great Notion" Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
The Sorrow and the Pity
1 NOMINATION
- Documentary (Feature) - Marcel Ophuls, Producer
Straw Dogs
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Original Dramatic Score) - Jerry Fielding
Summer of '42
4 NOMINATIONS,
1 WIN
- * Music (Original Dramatic Score) - Michel Legrand
- Cinematography - Robert Surtees
- Film Editing - Folmar Blangsted
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday
4 NOMINATIONS
- Actor - Peter Finch
- Actress - Glenda Jackson
- Directing - John Schlesinger
- Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Penelope Gilliatt
T
Tchaikovsky
2 NOMINATIONS
- Foreign Language Film - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) - Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
W
What's the Matter with Helen?
1 NOMINATION
- Costume Design - Morton Haack
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
1 NOMINATION
- Special Visual Effects - Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me?
1 NOMINATION
- Actress in a Supporting Role - Barbara Harris
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1 NOMINATION
- Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) - Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
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