Academy Awards 1972

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The 1972 Academy Awards took place on April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . It was the 44th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, films from the previous year are always awarded, in this case the films from 1971.

Statistics
(films with more than one nomination are listed)
N = nomination; S = victory
Movie N S.
Brooklyn focal point 8th 5
Anatevka 8th 3
The last performance 8th 2
Nikolaus and Alexandra 6th 2
The daring witch in her flying bed 5 1
Mary Queen of Scots Queen of Scotland 5 0
Summer '42 4th 1
Grandpa can't help it 4th 0
Sunday, Bloody Sunday 4th 0
Clockwork Orange 4th 0
Centinelas del silencio 2 2
The garden of the Finzi Contini 2 1
hospital 2 1
Klute 2 1
Shaft 2 1
Andromeda - Deadly dust from space 2 0
They want to be giants 2 0
Tchaikovsky 2 0

Moderation

Helen Hayes , Alan King , Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon hosted the Academy Awards.

Winners and nominations

Best movie

presented by Jack Nicholson

Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection) - Philip D'Antoni

Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof) - Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show) - Stephen J. Friedman
Nikolaus and Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra) - Sam Spiegel
A Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange) - Stanley Kubrick

Best director

presented by Frank Capra and Natalie Wood

William Friedkin - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)

Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
Norman Jewison - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange)
John Schlesinger - Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Best Actor

presented by Liza Minnelli

Gene Hackman - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)

Peter Finch - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Walter Matthau - Grandpa can't help it (Kotch)
George C. Scott - Hospital (The Hospital)
Chaim Topol - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)

Best main actress

presented by Walter Matthau

Jane Fonda - Klute

Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave - Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Janet Suzman - Nikolaus and Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra)

Best supporting actor

presented by Richard Harris and Sally Kellerman

Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)

Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
Leonard Frey - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)
Richard Jaeckel - They Want To Be Giants (Sometimes a Great Notion)
Roy Scheider - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)

The best supporting actress

presented by Gene Hackman and Raquel Welch

Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)

Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
Barbara Harris - Who is Harry Kellerman? (Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?)
Margaret Leighton - The Go-Between (The Go-Between)
Ann-Margret Olsson - The Art of Love (Carnal Knowledge)

Best adapted script

presented by Tennessee Williams

Ernest Tidyman - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)

Bernardo Bertolucci - The Great Error (Conformista, Il)
Peter Bogdanovich , Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
Vittorio Bonicelli , Ugo Pirro - The Garden of the Finzi Contini (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange)

Best original script

presented by Tennessee Williams

Paddy Chayefsky - Hospital (The Hospital)

Penelope Gilliatt - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Andy Lewis , David P. Lewis - Klute
Elio Petri , Ugo Pirro - Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)
Herman Raucher - Summer of '42 (Summer of '42)

Best camera

presented by John Gavin and Ann-Margret Olsson

Oswald Morris - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)

Owen Roizman - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)
Robert Surtees - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
Robert Surtees - Summer of '42 (Summer of '42)
Freddie Young - Nikolaus and Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra)

Best production design

presented by Timothy Bottoms and Jennifer O'Neill

Ernest Archer , John Box , Vernon Dixon , Jack Maxsted , Gil Parrondo - Nikolaus und Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra)

Robert F. Boyle , Peter Lamont , Michael Stringer - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)
Robert Cartwright , Peter Howitt , Terence Marsh - Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Peter Ellenshaw , Hal Gausman , Emile Kuri , John B. Mansbridge - The Daredevil Witch in Her Flying Bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
Boris Leven , Ruby R. Levitt , William H. Tuntke - Andromeda - Deadly dust from space (The Andromeda Strain)

Best costume design

presented by Timothy Bottoms and Jennifer O'Neill

Yvonne Blake , Antonio Castillo - Nikolaus and Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra)

Margaret Furse - Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Morton Haack - What's the matter with Helen? (What's the Matter with Helen?)
Bill Thomas - The daredevil witch in her flying bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
Piero Tosi - Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)

Best Score (Original Dramatic Score)

presented by Betty Grable and Dick Haymes

Michel Legrand - Summer of '42 (Summer of '42)

John Barry - Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Richard Rodney Bennett - Nicholas and Alexandra (Nicholas and Alexandra)
Jerry Fielding - Straw Dogs (Straw Dogs)
Isaac Hayes - Shaft

Best Score (Original Song Score)

presented by Betty Grable and Dick Haymes

John Williams - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)

Leslie Bricusse , Anthony Newley , Walter Scharf - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
Peter Maxwell Davies , Peter Greenwell - Boyfriend (The Boy Friend)
Irwin Kostal , Richard M. Sherman , Robert B. Sherman - The daredevil witch in her flying bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
Dimitri Tiomkin - Tchaikovsky (Chaykovskiy)

Best movie song

presented by Joel Gray

" Theme from Shaft " from Shaft - Isaac Hayes

"All His Children" made you want to be giants (Sometimes a Great Notion) - Alan Bergman , Marilyn Bergman , Henry Mancini
"Bless the Beasts and the Children" from Don't you think we're crying (Bless the Beasts & Children) - Perry Botkin Jr. , Barry De Vorzon
"Life Is What You Make It" from Grandpa can't help but (Kotch) - Marvin Hamlisch , Johnny Mercer
"The Age of Not Believing" from The Daredevil Witch in Her Flying Bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) - Richard M. Sherman , Robert B. Sherman

Best cut

presented by Red Buttons and Jill St. John

Gerald B. Greenberg - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)

Folmar Blangsted - Summer of '42 (Summer of '42)
Bill Butler - A Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange)
Stuart Gilmore , John W. Holmes - Andromeda - Deadly Dust from Space (The Andromeda Strain)
Ralph E. Winters - Grandpa can't help it (Kotch)

Best tone

presented by Sandy Duncan and Michael York

David Hildyard , Gordon K. McCallum - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)

John Aldred , Bob Jones - Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Gordon K. McCallum , John W. Mitchell , Al Overton - James Bond 007 - Diamonds Are Forever
Christopher Newman , Theodore Soderberg - Focal Point Brooklyn (The French Connection)
Richard Portman , Jack Solomon - Grandpa Can't Stop (Kotch)

Best visual effects

presented by Karen Black and Richard Chamberlain

Danny Lee , Eustace Lycett , Alan Maley - The daredevil witch in her flying bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)

Jim Danforth , Roger Dicken - When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth)

Best animated short film

presented by Cloris Leachman and Richard Roundtree

The Crunch Bird - Ted Petok

The Selfish Giant (The Selfish Giant) - Murray Shostak , Peter Zander
Evolution - Michael Mills

Best short film

presented by Cloris Leachman and Richard Roundtree

Centinelas del silencio - Robert Amram , Manuel Arango

Good Morning - Denny Evans , Ken Greenwald
The Rehearsal - Stephen Verona

Best Documentary (Short Film)

presented by James Caan and Joey Heatherton

Centinelas del silencio - Robert Amram , Manuel Arango

Adventures in Perception - Han Van Gelder
Art Is… - Julian Krainin , DeWitt Sage
Somebody Waiting - Woody Omens , Hal Riney , Dick Snider
The Numbers Start with the River - Donald Wrye

Best documentary

presented by James Caan and Joey Heatherton

The Hellstrom Chronicle - Walon Green

Alaska Wilderness Lake - Alan Landsburg
The house next door - Chronicle of a French town during the war (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) - Marcel Ophüls
Ra - Lennart Ehrenborg , Thor Heyerdahl
The devil on hot fire chairs (On Any Sunday) - Bruce Brown

Best foreign language film

presented by Leslie Caron and Jack Valenti

The garden of the Finzi Contini (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini) , Italy - Vittorio De Sica

Emigrants (Utvandrarna) , Sweden - Jan Troell
Dodeskaden - people on the sidelines (Dō desu ka den) , Japan - Akira Kurosawa
Sleep well, sergeant! (Ha-Shoter Azulai) , Israel - Ephraim Kishon
Tchaikovsky (Chaykovskiy) , Soviet Union - Igor Wassiljewitsch Talankin

Prizes of honor

Honorary Oscar

Charles Chaplin

Scientific and Engineering Award

John N. Wilkinson

Technical Achievement Award

Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson , James R. Rochester , Fenton Hamilton
Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corp.
Robert D. Auguste
Producers Service Corp. , Consolidated Film Industries , Cinema Research Corp. , Research Products, Inc.
Cinema Products Co.

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