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