Best Picture A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, producer (Warner Bros.) Fiddler on the Roof, Norman Jewison, producer (United Artists) The French Connection, Philip D'Antoni, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) The Last Picture Show, Stephen J. Friedman, producer (Columbia) Nicholas and Alexandra, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia) Best Actor Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday Gene Hackman, The French Connection Walter Matthau, Kotch George C. Scott, The Hospital Topol, Fiddler on the Roof Best Actress Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller Jane Fonda, Klute Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots Janet Suzman, Nicholas and Alexandra Actor in a Supporting Role Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show Leonard Frey, Fiddler on the Roof Richard Jaeckel, Sometimes a Great Notion Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show Roy Scheider, The French Connection Actress in a Supporting Role Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show Barbara Harris, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge Directing Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show William Friedkin, The French Connection Norman Jewison, Fiddler on the Roof Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday Writing Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection Original Screenplay Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Bloody Sunday Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis, Klute Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Herman Raucher, Summer of '42 Cinematography Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof Owen Roizman, The French Connection Robert Surtees, The Last Picture Show Robert Surtees, Summer of '42 Freddie Young, Nicholas and Alexandra Art Direction John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo, art direction; Vernon Dixon, set decoration, Nicholas and Alexandra Robert Boyle and Michael Stringer, art direction; Peter Lamont, set decoration, Fiddler on the Roof Boris Leven and William Tuntke, art direction; Ruby Levitt, set decoration, The Andromeda Strain John B. Mansbridge and Peter Ellenshaw, art direction; Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman, set decoration, Bedknobs and Broomsticks Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright, art direction; Peter Howitt, set decoration, Mary, Queen of Scots Sound Bob Jones and John Aldred, Mary, Queen of Scots Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard, Fiddler on the Roof Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton, Diamonds Are Forever Richard Portman and Jack Solomon, Kotch Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman, The French Connection Music

  • Song

�The Age of Not Believing,� Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics �All His Children,� Sometimes a Great Notion, Henry Mancini, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics �Bless the Beasts and Children,� Bless the Beasts and Children, Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr., music and lyrics �Life Is What You Make It,� Kotch, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics �Theme From Shaft,� Shaft, Isaac Hayes, music and lyrics

  • Original Dramatic Score

John Barry, Mary, Queen of Scots Richard Rodney Bennett, Nicholas and Alexandra Jerry Fielding, Straw Dogs Isaac Hayes, Shaft Michel Legrand, Summer of '42

  • Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score

Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, song; Walter Scharf, adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell, The Boy Friend Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; Irwin Kostal, adaptation, Bedknobs and Broomsticks Dimitri Tiomkin, Tchaikovsky John Williams, Fiddler on the Roof Film Editing Folmar Blangsted, Summer of '42 Bill Butler, A Clockwork Orange Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes, The Andromeda Strain Jerry Greenberg, The French Connection Ralph E. Winters, Kotch Costume Design Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo, Nicholas and Alexandra Margaret Furse, Mary, Queen of Scots Morton Haack, What's the Matter With Helen? Bill Thomas, Bedknobs and Broomsticks Piero Tosi, Death in Venice Special Visual Effects Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee, Bedknobs and Broomsticks Short Subjects

  • Animated

The Crunch Bird (Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions; Regency Film Distributing Corp.) Evolution (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia) The Selfish Giant (Potterton Productions; Pyramid Films)

  • Live Action

Good Morning (E/G Films; Seymour Borde and Associates) The Rehearsal (Cinema Verona Production; Schoenfeld Film Distributing Corp.) Sentinels of Silence (Producciones Concord; Paramount) Documentary

  • Short Subject

Adventures in Perception (Hans van Gelder Filmproduktie; Netherlands Information Service) Art Is . . . (Henry Strauss Associates; Sears, Roebuck Foundation) The Numbers Start With the River (WH Picture; U.S. Information Agency) Sentinels of Silence (Producciones Concord; Paramount) Somebody Waiting (Snider Productions; University of California Medical Film Library)

  • Feature

Alaska Wilderness Lake (Alan Landsburg, producer; Alan Landsburg Productions) The Hellstrom Chronicle (David L. Wolper Productions; Cinema 5, Ltd.) On Any Sunday (Bruce Brown-Solar; Cinema 5, Ltd.) The RA Expeditions (Swedish Broadcasting Company; Interwest Film Corp.) The Sorrow and the Pity (Television Rencontre-Norddeutscher Rundfunk-Television Swiss Romande; Cinema 5, Ltd.) Foreign Language Film Dodes'Ka-Den, Japan The Emigrants, Sweden The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Italy The Policeman, Israel Tchaikovsky, U.S.S.R. Honorary Award To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century

Facts:

  • Winners Announced: April 10, 1972
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
  • Hosts: Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Lemmon
  • Eligibility Year: 1971
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