Best Picture Cabaret, Cy Feuer, producer (Allied Artists) Deliverance, John Boorman, producer (Warner Bros.) The Emigrants, Bengt Forslund, producer (Warner Bros.) The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy, producer (Paramount) Sounder, Robert B. Radnitz, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) Best Actor Marlon Brando, The Godfather Michael Caine, Sleuth Laurence Olivier, Sleuth Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class Paul Winfield, Sounder Best Actress Liza Minelli, Cabaret Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues Maggie Smith, Travels With My Aunt Cicely Tyson, Sounder Liv Ullman, The Emigrants Actor in a Supporting Role Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid James Caan, The Godfather Robert Duvall, The Godfather Joel Grey, Cabaret Al Pacino, The Godfather Actress in a Supporting Role Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free Geraldine Page, Pete 'n' Tillie Susan Tyrrell, Fat City Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure Directing John Boorman, Deliverance Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Bob Fosse, Cabaret Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sleuth Jan Troell, The Emigrants Writing Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium Jay Allen, Cabaret Lonne Elder, III, Sounder Julius J. Epstein, Pete 'n' Tillie Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund, The Emigrants Original Screenplay Luis Bu�uel, story and screenplay in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carri�re, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Carl Foreman, Young Winston Jeremy Larner, The Candidate Louis Malle, Murmur of the Heart Terence McCloy, Chris Clark and Suzanne de Passe, Lady Sings the Blues Cinematography Charles B. Lang, Butterflies Are Free Douglas Slocombe, Travels With My Aunt Harold E. Stine, The Poseidon Adventure Harry Stradling, Jr., 1776 Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret Art Direction Carl Anderson, art direction; Reg Allen, set decoration, Lady Sings the Blues Don Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark and William Hutchinson, art direction; Peter James, set decoration, Young Winston John Box, Gil Parrondo and Robert W. Laing, art direction and set decoration, Travels With My Aunt William Creber, art direction; Raphael Bretton, set decoration, The Poseidon Adventure Rolf Zehetbauer and Jurgen Kiebach, art direction; Herbert Strabel, set decoration, Cabaret Sound Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman, The Godfather Robert Knudson and David Hildyard, Cabaret Arthur Piantadosi and Charles Knight, Butterflies Are Free Richard Portman and Gene Cantamessa, The Candidate Theodore Soderberg and Herman Lewis, The Poseidon Adventure Music Song �Ben,� Ben, Walter Scharf, music; Don Black, lyrics �Come Follow, Follow Me,� The Little Ark, Fred Karlin, music; Marsha Karlin, lyrics �Marmalade, Molasses & Honey,� The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Maurice Jarre, music; Marilyn and Alan Bergman, lyrics �The Morning After,� The Poseidon Adventure, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, music and lyrics �Strange Are the Ways of Love,� The Stepmother, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics Original Dramatic Score John Addison, Sleuth Buddy Baker, Napoleon and Samantha Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell, Limelight John Williams, Images John Williams, The Poseidon Adventure Scoring: Adaptation and Original Score Gil Askey, Lady Sings the Blues Ralph Burns, Cabaret Laurence Rosenthal, Man of La Mancha Film Editing David Bretherton, Cabaret Frank P. Keller and Fred W. Berger, The Hot Rock Harold F. Kress, The Poseidon Adventure Tom Priestley, Deliverance William Reynolds and Peter Zinner, The Godfather Costume Design Anna Hill Johnstone, The Godfather Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan and Norma Koch, Lady Sings the Blues Anthony Mendleson, Young Winston Anthony Powell, Travels With My Aunt Paul Zastupnevich, The Poseidon Adventure Short Subjects Animated A Christmas Carol (Richard Williams Production; American Broadcasting Company Film Services) Kama Sutra Rides Again (Bob Godfrey Films, Ltd.; Lion International Films) Tup Tup (Zagreb Film-Corona Cinematografica Production; Manson Distributing) Live Action Frog Story (Gidron Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films) Norman Rockwell's World . . .An American Dream (Concepts Unlimited; Columbia) Solo (Pyramid Films; United Artists) Documentary Short Subject Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (Argos Films-Peter Schamoni Film Production) K-Z (Giorgio Treves, producer; Nexus Film S.r.l. Production) Selling Out (Tadeusz Jaworski, producer; Unit Productions Film) This Tiny World (Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, producers; Charles Huguenot van der Linden Production) The Tide of Traffic (Humphrey Swingler, producer; BP-Greenpark Production) Feature Ape and Super-Ape (Bert Haanstra Film Production; Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Welfare) Malcolm X (Marvin Worth Production; Warner Bros.) Manson (Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, producers; Merrick International Pictures) Marjoe (Cinema X Production; Cinema 5, Ltd.) The Silent Revolution (Eckehard Munck, producer; Leonaris Film Production) Foreign Language Film The Dawns Here Are Quiet, U.S.S.R. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, France I Love You Rosa, Israel My Dearest Se�orita, Spain The New Land, Sweden Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Rosalind Russell Honorary Awards To Charles S. Boren, leader for 38 years of the industry's enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of nondiscrimination To Edward G. Robinson who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen . . .in sum, a Renaissance man Special Achievement Award (Not necessarily given each year) Visual Effects L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers, The Poseidon Adventure

Facts

  • Winners Announced: March 27, 1973
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
  • Hosts: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson
  • Eligibility Year: 1972
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