44th Academy Awards

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

  • 3.1 Honorary Oscar
  • 3.2 Scientific and Engineering Award
  • 3.3 Technical Achievement Award

Presentation

Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. and Jack Lemmon as facilitators led by the Oscar ceremony.

Winners and nominations

Best Picture

Focus Brooklyn (The French Connection ) - Philip D' Antoni

Best Director

William Friedkin - focus Brooklyn (The French Connection )

Best Actor

Gene Hackman - focus Brooklyn (The French Connection )

Best Actress

Jane Fonda - Klute

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

Focus Brooklyn (The French Connection ) - Ernest Tidyman

Best Original Screenplay

Hospital ( The Hospital ) - Paddy Chayefsky

Best Camera

Anatevka ( Fiddler on the Roof ) - Oswald Morris

Best Art

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

Best Costume Design

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

Best Editing

Focus Brooklyn (The French Connection ) - Gerald B. Greenberg

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Music (Original Dramatic Score )

Spring through the summer ( Summer of '42 ) - Michel Legrand

Best Music ( Original Song Score)

Anatevka ( Fiddler on the Roof ) - John Williams

Best Song

" Theme from Shaft" from Shaft - Isaac Hayes

Best Animated Short Film

The Crunch Bird - Ted Petok

Best Short Film

Centinelas del silencio - Manuel Arango, Robert Amram

Best Documentary (Short Film )

Centinelas del silencio - Manuel Arango, Robert Amram

Best Documentary

The Hellstrom Chronicle - Walon Green

Best Foreign Language Film

The Garden of the Finzi Contini ( Il Giardino dei Finzi - Contini ) by Vittorio De Sica - Italy

Prizes

Honorary Oscar

Scientific and Engineering Award

Technical Achievement Award

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