1972 (45th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1972. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Sleuth, Palomar Pictures International Production; 20th Century-Fox. (UK, USA) Joseph L. Mankiewicz.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Art direction by Rolf Zehetbauer and Jurgen Kiebach; set decoration by Herbert Strabel.Lady Sings the Blues, Motown-Weston-Furie Production; Paramount. Art direction by Carl Anderson; set decoration by Reg Allen.The Poseidon Adventure, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by William Creber; set decoration by Raphael Bretton.Travels with My Aunt, Robert Fryer Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. John Box, Gil Parrondo and Robert W. Laing.Young Winston, Open Road Films, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by Geoffrey Drake, Don Ashton, John Graysmark and William Hutchinson; set decoration by Peter James.Cinematography
Costume Design
Lady Sings the Blues, Motown-Weston-Furie Production; Paramount. Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan and Norma Koch.Documentary
(Feature)
Ape and Super-Ape, Bert Haanstra Film Production; The Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Welfare. (Netherlands) Bert Haanstra, Producer.(Short Subject)
Hundertwasser’s Rainy Day, Argos Films-Peter Schamoni Filmproduktion. (West Germany, France) Peter Schamoni, Producer.This Tiny World, Charles Huguenot van der Linden Production. (Netherlands) Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Gorky Film Studios Production. (Soviet Union)The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Serge Silberman Production; 20th Century-Fox. (France)I Love You Rosa, Noah Films, Ltd. Production. (Israel)My Dearest Senorita, El Iman Production. (Spain)The New Land, A.B. Svensk Filmindustri Production. (Sweden)Music
(Original Dramatic Score)
The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount. Nino Rota. [NOTE: The Godfather score, composed by Nino Rota, was originally announced as one of the five official nominees. It was later pointed out that portions of the score and the main theme were composed by Rota for his score to the 1958 Italian film Fortunella. The Music Branch was given this information and re-balloted to determine the fifth nomination. The list of six films they were to choose from were the remaining five of the top ten preliminary listings, plus The Godfather score. The results of the re-balloting was that the fifth nomination became Sleuth, composed by John Addison, and The Godfather was dropped.]Limelight, Charles Chaplin Productions; Columbia. Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell. [NOTE: Limelight, made in 1952, was belatedly eligible for 1972 consideration because it had not previously been shown in a Los Angeles theater as Academy rules require.](Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
Man of La Mancha, P.E.A. Produzioni Europee Associate S.p.A. Production; United Artists. (Italy, USA) Adaptation score by Laurence Rosenthal.(Song [Original for the Picture])
Come Follow, Follow Me from The Little Ark, Robert Radnitz Productions, Ltd.; Cinema Center Films Presentation; National General Pictures. Music by Fred Karlin; lyrics by Marsha Karlin.Marmalade, Molasses & Honey from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, First Artists Production Company, Ltd. Production; National General Pictures. Music by Maurice Jarre; lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman.The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.Strange Are the Ways of Love from The Stepmother, Magic Eye of Hollywood Productions; Crown International. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.Short Subjects
(Animated)
A Christmas Carol, Richard Williams Production; American Broadcasting Company Film Services. Richard Williams, Producer.Kama Sutra Rides Again, Bob Godfrey Films, Ltd.; Lion International Films. (UK) Bob Godfrey, Producer.Tup Tup, Zagreb Film-Corona Cinematografica Production; Manson Distributing Corporation. (Yugoslavia, Italy) Nedeljko Dragic, Producer.(Live Action)
Frog Story, Gidron Productions; Schoenfeld Film Distributing Corporation. Ron Satlof and Ray Gideon, Producers.Norman Rockwell’s World . . . An American Dream, Concepts Unlimited Production; Columbia. Richard Barclay, Producer.Sound
The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount. Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman.The Poseidon Adventure, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox. Theodore Soderberg and Herman Lewis.Special Achievement Award
(Visual Effects)
Writing
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
The Emigrants, A.B. Svensk Filmindustri Production; Warner Bros. (Sweden) Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund.(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Serge Silberman Production; 20th Century-Fox. (France) Story and screenplay by Luis Buñuel; in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière.Lady Sings the Blues, Motown-Weston-Furie Production; Paramount. Terence McCloy, Chris Clark and Suzanne de Passe.Murmur of the Heart, Nouvelles Editions De Films-Marianne Productions-Vides Cinematografica-Franz Seitz Filmproduktion; Continental Distributing, Inc. (France, Italy, West Germany) Louis Malle.Honorary Award
To Charles S. Boren, leader for 38 years of the industry’s enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of non-discrimination. With respect and affection of all who work in films. [ [Statuette]]To Edward G. Robinson who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen . . . in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves. [ [Statuette]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To Joseph E. Bluth for research and development in the field of electronic photography and transfer of video tape to motion picture film.To Edward H. Reichard and Howard T. La Zare of Consolidated Film Industries, and Edward Efron of IBM for the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the development and engineering of the Panaflex motion picture camera.(Class III)
To Photo Research, a Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, and PSC Technology, Inc., Acme Products Division, for the Spectra Film Gate Photometer for motion picture printers.To Carter Equipment Company, Inc. and RAMtronics for the RAMtronics light-valve photometer for motion picture printers.To David Degenkolb, Harry Larson, Manfred Michelson and Fred Scobey of DeLuxe General Incorporated for the development of a computerized motion picture printer and process control system.To Jiro Mukai and Ryusho Hirose of Canon, Inc., and Wilton R. Holm of the AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for development of the Canon Macro Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.To Philip V. Palmquist and Leonard L. Olson of the 3M Company, and Frank P. Clark of the AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for development of the Nextel simulated blood for motion picture color photography.To E. H. Geissler and G. M. Berggren of Wil-Kin Inc., for engineering of the Ultra-Vision Motion Picture Theater Projection System.