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