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44th Academy Awards (1972) - Movies from 1971

Highlights

Best Picture: The French Connection
Best Director: William Friedkin
Best Leading Actress: Jane Fonda
Best Leading Actor: Gene Hackman
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman
Best International Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Best Original Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky

Best Adapted Screenplay: Ernest Tidyman
Best Film Editing: Gerald B. Greenberg
Best Cinematography: Oswald Morris
Best Original Dramatic Score: Michel Legrand
Best Song: Isaac Hayes ("Theme from Shaft")
Best Music, Original Song Score: John Williams
Best Production Design: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon
Best Costume Design: Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Best Sound Mixing: Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Best Visual Effects: Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Best Short Film - Animated: The Crunch Bird (S)
Best Documentary Feature: The Hellstrom Chronicle
Best Short Film: Sentinels of Silence (S)
Honorary Award: Charles Chaplin

Most awarded films

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1
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Most nominated films

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5
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2

Best Picture - 1972

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Migration

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- Gene Hackman
  
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The French Connection
8 nominations 5 awards
- Topol
Fiddler on the Roof
- George C. Scott
The Hospital
- Walter Matthau
Kotch
- Peter Finch
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

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Argylle

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- Isaac Hayes ("Theme from Shaft")
  
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Shaft
2 nominations 1 award
- Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman ("The Age of Not Believing")
Bedknobs & Broomsticks
- Barry De Vorzon, Perry Botkin ("Bless the Beasts and the Children")
Bless the Beasts & Children
- Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Mercer ("Life Is What You Make It")
Kotch
- Henry Mancini, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman ("All His Children")
Sometimes a Great Notion

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- Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
  
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Bedknobs & Broomsticks
5 nominations 1 award
- Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

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Sentinels of Silence (S)
Winner

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- Charles Chaplin
  
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