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1972 Oscars 44th Academy Awards |
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1972 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
| Best Picture: The French Connection – Philip D’Antoni, producer (WINNER) A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick, producer Fiddler on the Roof – Norman Jewison, producer The Last Picture Show – Stephen J. Friedman, producer Nicholas and Alexandra – Sam Spiegel, producer |
| Best Director: William Friedkin – The French Connection (WINNER) Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| Best Actor: Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Det. Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (WINNER) Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Dr. Daniel Hirsch Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher George C. Scott – The Hospital as Dr. Herbert “Herb” Bock Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye |
| Best Actress: Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels (WINNER) Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller as Constance Miller Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Empress Alexandra |
| Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion (WINNER) Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil Richard Jaeckel – Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper Roy Scheider – The French Connection as Det. Buddy ‘Cloudy’ Russo |
| Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper (WINNER) Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow Barbara Harris – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley |
| Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published: The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky (WINNER) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro Klute – Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis Summer of ’42 – Herman Raucher Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt |
| Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman based on the book by Robin Moore (WINNER) A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci based on the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pirro based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry based on the novel by Larry McMurtry |
| Best Foreign Language Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy) in Italian – Vittorio De Sica (WINNER) Dodes’ka-den (Japan) in Japanese – Akira Kurosawa The Emigrants (Sweden) in Swedish – Jan Troell The Policeman (Israel) in Hebrew – Ephraim Kishon Tchaikovsky (USSR) in Russian – Igor Talankin |
| Best Costume Design: Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo (WINNER) Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Bill Thomas Death in Venice – Piero Tosi Mary, Queen of Scots – Margaret Furse What’s the Matter with Helen? – Morton Haack |
| Best Documentary Feature: The Hellstrom Chronicle – Walon Green (WINNER) Alaska Wilderness Lake – Alan Landsburg On Any Sunday – Bruce Brown Ra – Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophüls |
| Best Documentary Short Subject: Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango (WINNER) Adventures in Perception – Han van Gelder Art Is… – Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. The Numbers Start with the River – Donald Wrye Somebody Waiting – Sherwood Omens, Hal Riney and Dick Snider |
| Best Live Action Short Subject: Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango (WINNER) Good Morning – Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald The Rehearsal – Stephen F. Verona |
| Best Animated Short Subject: The Crunch Bird – Ted Petok (WINNER) Evolution – Michael Mills The Selfish Giant – Peter Sander and Murray Shostak |
| Best Original Dramatic Score: Summer of ’42 – Michel Legrand (WINNER) Mary, Queen of Scots – John Barry Nicholas and Alexandra – Richard Rodney Bennett Shaft – Isaac Hayes Straw Dogs – Jerry Fielding |
| Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score: Fiddler on the Roof – Adapted by John Williams (WINNER) Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Adapted by Irwin Kostal; Song Score by The Sherman Brothers: Robert B. and Richard M. The Boy Friend – Adapted by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell Tchaikovsky – Adapted by Dimitri Tiomkin Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – Adapted by Walter Scharf; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley |
| Best Song Original for the Picture: “Theme from Shaft” from Shaft – Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes (WINNER) “The Age of Not Believing” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Music and Lyrics by Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman “All His Children” from Sometimes a Great Notion – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman “Bless the Beasts and Children” from Bless the Beasts and Children – Music and Lyrics by Perry Botkin Jr. and Barry De Vorzon “Life Is What You Make It” from Kotch – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer |
| Best Sound: Fiddler on the Roof – David Hildyard and Gordon K. McCallum (WINNER) Diamonds Are Forever – Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton The French Connection – Christopher Newman and Theodore Soderberg Kotch – Richard Portman and Jack Solomon Mary, Queen of Scots – John Aldred and Bob Jones |
| Best Art Direction: Nicholas and Alexandra – Art Direction: Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon (WINNER) The Andromeda Strain – Art Direction: Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby R. Levitt Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Art Direction: Peter Ellenshaw and John B. Mansbridge; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman and Emile Kuri Fiddler on the Roof – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle and Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont Mary, Queen of Scots – Art Direction: Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt |
| Best Cinematography: Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris (WINNER) The French Connection – Owen Roizman The Last Picture Show – Robert Surtees Nicholas and Alexandra – Freddie Young Summer of ’42 – Robert Surtees |
| Best Film Editing: The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg (WINNER) The Andromeda Strain – Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination) and John W. Holmes A Clockwork Orange – Bill Butler Kotch – Ralph E. Winters Summer of ’42 – Folmar Blangsted |
| Best Special Visual Effects: Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett and Alan Maley (WINNER) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken |
| Honorary Academy Award: Charlie Chaplin received an honorary award at this ceremony, for “the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century”. |
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