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Academy Awards, USA: 1972

Oscar

Date:	10 April
Host:	Helen Hayes (I); Alan King (I); Sammy Davis Jr.; Jack Lemmon (I)
Location:	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	French Connection, The (1971) - Philip D'Antoni
Other Nominees:
	Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Stanley Kubrick Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Norman Jewison Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Stephen J. Friedman Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Sam Spiegel (I)

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	French Connection, The (1971) - Gene Hackman
Other Nominees:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Topol Hospital, The (1971) - George C. Scott Kotch (1971) - Walter Matthau Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Peter Finch (I)

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Klute (1971) - Jane Fonda
Other Nominees:
	Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Vanessa Redgrave McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Julie Christie (I) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Janet Suzman Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Glenda Jackson

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Ben Johnson (I)
Other Nominees:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Leonard Frey French Connection, The (1971) - Roy Scheider Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Jeff Bridges (I) Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) - Richard Jaeckel

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Cloris Leachman
Other Nominees:
	Carnal Knowledge (1971) - Ann-Margret Go-Between, The (1970) - Margaret Leighton Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Ellen Burstyn Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) - Barbara Harris (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	French Connection, The (1971) - William Friedkin (I)
Other Nominees:
	Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Stanley Kubrick Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Norman Jewison Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - John Schlesinger (I)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	French Connection, The (1971) - Ernest Tidyman
Other Nominees:
	Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Stanley Kubrick Conformista, Il (1970) - Bernardo Bertolucci Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il (1970) - Ugo Pirro; Vittorio Bonicelli Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Larry McMurtry; Peter Bogdanovich

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced


Winner:
	Hospital, The (1971) - Paddy Chayefsky
Other Nominees:
	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) - Elio Petri; Ugo Pirro Klute (1971) - Andy Lewis (I); Dave Lewis (II) Summer of '42 (1971) - Herman Raucher Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Penelope Gilliatt

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Oswald Morris
Other Nominees:
	French Connection, The (1971) - Owen Roizman Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Robert Surtees Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Freddie Young Summer of '42 (1971) - Robert Surtees

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration


Winner:
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - John Box; Ernest Archer; Jack Maxsted; Gil Parrondo; Vernon Dixon
Other Nominees:
	Andromeda Strain, The (1971) - Boris Leven; William H. Tuntke; Ruby R. Levitt Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - John B. Mansbridge; Peter Ellenshaw; Emile Kuri; Hal Gausman Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Robert F. Boyle; Michael Stringer (III); Peter Lamont Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Terence Marsh; Robert Cartwright; Peter Howitt (I)

Best Costume Design


Winner:
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Yvonne Blake (I); Antonio Castillo (I)
Other Nominees:
	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Bill Thomas (I) Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Margaret Furse Morte a Venezia (1971) - Piero Tosi What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) - Morton Haack

Best Sound


Winner:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Gordon K. McCallum; David Hildyard
Other Nominees:
	Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Gordon K. McCallum; John W. Mitchell; Al Overton French Connection, The (1971) - Theodore Soderberg; Christopher Newman (I) Kotch (1971) - Richard Portman; Jack Solomon Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - Bob Jones (I); John Aldred

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	French Connection, The (1971) - Gerald B. Greenberg
Other Nominees:
	Andromeda Strain, The (1971) - Stuart Gilmore; John W. Holmes Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Bill Butler (II) Kotch (1971) - Ralph E. Winters Summer of '42 (1971) - Folmar Blangsted

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects


Winner:
	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Alan Maley; Eustace Lycett; Danny Lee (II)
Other Nominees:
	When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) - Jim Danforth; Roger Dicken

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Shaft (1971) - Isaac Hayes - For the song "Theme from Shaft".
Other Nominees:
	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Richard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman - For the song "The Age of Not Believing". Bless the Beasts & Children (1971) - Barry De Vorzon; Perry Botkin Jr. - For the song "Bless the Beasts and the Children". Kotch (1971) - Marvin Hamlisch (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics) - For the song "Life Is What You Make It". Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) - Henry Mancini (music); Alan Bergman (I) (lyrics); Marilyn Bergman - For the song "All His Children".

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score


Winner:
	Summer of '42 (1971) - Michel Legrand (I)
Other Nominees:
	Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - John Barry (I) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Richard Rodney Bennett Shaft (1971) - Isaac Hayes Straw Dogs (1971) - Jerry Fielding

Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score


Winner:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - John Williams (I)
Other Nominees:
	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Richard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman; Irwin Kostal Boy Friend, The (1971) - Peter Maxwell Davies; Peter Greenwell Chaykovskiy (1969) - Dimitri Tiomkin Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - Leslie Bricusse; Anthony Newley; Walter Scharf

Best Short Subject, Animated Films


Winner:
	Crunch Bird, The (1971) - Ted Petok
Other Nominees:
	Evolution (1971) - Michael Mills (I) Selfish Giant, The (1971) - Peter Sander (I); Murray Shostak

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films


Winner:
	Centinelas del silencio (1971) - Manuel Arango (I); Robert Amram
Other Nominees:
	Good Morning (1971) - Denny Evans (I); Ken Greenwald (I) Rehearsal, The (1971) - Stephen Verona

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Centinelas del silencio (1971) - Manuel Arango (I); Robert Amram
Other Nominees:
	Adventures in Perception (1971) - Han Van Gelder Art Is... (1971) - Julian Krainin; DeWitt Sage Numbers Start with the River, The (1971) - Donald Wrye Somebody Waiting (1971) - Hal Riney; Dick Snider; Woody Omens

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Hellstrom Chronicle, The (1971) - Walon Green
Other Nominees:
	Alaska Wilderness Lake (1971) - Alan Landsburg Chagrin et la pitié, Le (1969) - Marcel Oph�ls On Any Sunday (1971) - Bruce Brown (I) Ra (1972) - Lennart Ehrenborg; Thor Heyerdahl

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il (1970) - Italy.
Other Nominees:
	Chaykovskiy (1969) - Soviet Union. Dodesukaden (1970) - Japan. Shoter Azulai, Ha- (1970) - Israel. Utvandrarna (1971) - Sweden.

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Charles Chaplin - For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century.

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winner:
	John N. Wilkinson (Optical Radiation Corp.) - For the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Cinema Products Co. - For a control to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras. Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corp. - For the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter. Producers Service Corp.; Consolidated Film Industries; Cinema Research Corp.; Research Products, Inc. - For the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems. Robert D. Auguste; Cinema Products Co. - For the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera. Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson; James R. Rochester; Fenton Hamilton - For the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for motion picture projection.