47th Academy Awards
The Academy Awards 1975 took place on April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. It was the 47th Annual Academy Awards. In the year of award films of the past year are always excellent, in this case, the films of the year 1974.
Francis Ford Coppola was also nominated in four categories and in an even twice. For The Godfather - Part II, he won the awards as producer ( Best Picture ), Director ( Best Director ) and author ( Best Adapted Screenplay). For the dialogue he was nominated in the categories Best Film (as producer) and Best Original Screenplay. Prior to this, only Orson Welles in four different categories at Oscar nominations reap (1941 Citizen Kane ).
Coppola's The Godfather - Part II was also the first continuation of the Oscar-winning film ( The Godfather ), which could also win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- 3.1 Honorary Oscar
- 3.2 Special Achievement Award
- 3.3 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
- 3.4 Scientific and Engineering Award
- 3.5 Technical Achievement Award
Presentation
Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra as facilitators led by the Oscar ceremony.
Winners and nominations
Best Picture
The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II) - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
Best Director
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II)
Best Actor
Art Carney - Harry and Tonto ( Harry and Tonto )
Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn - Alice Does not Live Here more (Alice Does not Live Here Anymore )
Best Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro - The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II)
Best Supporting Actress
Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express ( Murder on the Orient Express)
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II) - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Best Original Screenplay
Chinatown - Robert Towne
Best Camera
The Towering Inferno ( The Towering Inferno ) - Fred J. Koenekamp, Joseph F. Biroc
Best Art
The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II) - Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson
Best Costume Design
The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ) - Theoni V. Aldredge
Best Editing
The Towering Inferno ( The Towering Inferno ) - Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress
Best Sound
Earthquake ( Earthquake ) - Ronald Pierce, Melvin M. Metcalfe, Sr.
Best Music (Original Dramatic Score )
The Godfather - Part II ( The Godfather: Part II) - Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola
Best Music ( Original Song Score)
The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ) - Nelson Riddle
Best Song
" We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno ( The Towering Inferno ) - Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
Best Animated Short Film
Closed Mondays - Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner
Best Short Film
Les rois sont ... borgnes - Paul Claudon, Edmond Séchan
Best Documentary (Short Film )
Do not - Robin Lehman
Best Documentary
Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis, Bert Schneider
Best Foreign Language Film
Amarcord by Federico Fellini - Italy