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