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All awards44th Academy Awards (1972) - Movies from 1971
Main awards
Best Director: William Friedkin
Best Leading Actor: Gene Hackman
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman
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Best Picture Year 1972
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Best Picture
Winner
 
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Nominees
Best Director
Winner
 
William Friedkin
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
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Best Leading Actor
Winner
 
Gene Hackman
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Nominees
Best Leading Actress
Winner
 
Jane Fonda
Klute
(2 Nominations1 Award)
Alan J. Pakula
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider
Nominees
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
 
Ben Johnson
Peter Bogdanovich
Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman
Nominees
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
 
Cloris Leachman
Peter Bogdanovich
Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman
Nominees
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
 
Vittorio De Sica
Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Nominees
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
 
Paddy Chayefsky
Arthur Hiller
George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes
Nominees
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
 
Ernest Tidyman
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Nominees
Best Film Editing
Winner
 
Gerald B. Greenberg
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Nominees
Best Cinematography
Winner
 
Oswald Morris
Norman Jewison
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Nominees
Best Original Dramatic Score
Winner
 
Michel Legrand
Robert Mulligan
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser
Nominees
  • John Barry
     Mary, Queen of Scots
    Charles Jarrott
    Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
    (5 Nominations )
  • Richard Rodney Bennett
     Nicholas and Alexandra
    Franklin J. Schaffner
    Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker, Laurence Olivier
    (6 Nominations2 Awards)
  • Isaac Hayes
     Shaft
    Gordon Parks
    Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Gwenn Mitchell
    (2 Nominations1 Award)
  • Jerry Fielding
     Straw Dogs
    Sam Peckinpah
    Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, David Warner, Peter Vaughan
Best Song
Winner
 
Isaac Hayes ("Theme from Shaft")
Shaft
(2 Nominations1 Award)
Gordon Parks
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Nominees
  • Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman ("The Age of Not Believing")
     Bedknobs & Broomsticks
    Robert Stevenson
    Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe
    (5 Nominations1 Award)
  • Barry De Vorzon, Perry Botkin Jr. ("Bless the Beasts and the Children")
     Bless the Beasts & Children
    Stanley Kramer
    Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin, Darel Glaser
  • Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Mercer ("Life Is What You Make It")
     Kotch
    Jack Lemmon
    Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman
    (4 Nominations )
  • Henry Mancini, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman ("All His Children")
     Sometimes a Great Notion
    Paul Newman
    Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin
    (2 Nominations )
Best Music, Original Song Score
Winner
 
John Williams
Norman Jewison
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Nominees
Best Art Direction
Winner
 
John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker
Nominees
Best Costume Design
Winner
 
Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Tom Baker
Nominees
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
 
Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Norman Jewison
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Nominees
  • Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell, Al Overton
     Diamonds are Forever
    Guy Hamilton
    Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood
  • Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman
     The French Connection
    William Friedkin
    Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco
    (8 Nominations5 Awards)
  • Richard Portman, Jack Solomon
     Kotch
    Jack Lemmon
    Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman
    (4 Nominations )
  • Bob Jones, John Aldred
     Mary, Queen of Scots
    Charles Jarrott
    Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
    (5 Nominations )
Best Visual Effects
Winner
 
Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Robert Stevenson
Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall
Nominees
Best Short Film - Animated
Winner
 
Ted Petok
Animation
Nominees
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
 
Ed Spiegel, Walon Green
Documentary
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