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- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGeorge C. ScottKarl MaldenStephen YoungThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Best Film
Winner: Patton
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
M*A*S*H
Women in Love - DirectorGeorge SeatonHenry HathawayStarsBurt LancasterDean MartinGeorge KennedyA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.Best Director
Winner: Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton
Elio Petri – Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces
Arthur Hiller – Love Story
Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
Ken Russell – Women in Love
Sound: Patton
Airport
Kelly's Heroes
Ryan's Daughter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock - DirectorArthur HillerStarsAli MacGrawRyan O'NealJohn MarleyA boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.Best Actor
Winner: George C. Scott – Patton
Melvyn Douglas – I Never Sang for My Father
Gene Hackman – I Never Sang for My Father
James Earl Jones – The Great White Hope
Jack Nicholson – Five Easy Pieces
Ryan O'Neal – Love Story
Cinematography: Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young
Airport
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love
Woodstock - DirectorKen RussellStarsAlan BatesOliver ReedGlenda JacksonTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.Best Actress
Winner: Glenda Jackson – Women In Love
Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope
Faye Dunaway – Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Ali MacGraw – Love Story
Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter
Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife
Production: Patton – Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo
Airport
The Molly Maguires
Scrooge
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love - DirectorArthur PennStarsDustin HoffmanFaye DunawayChief Dan GeorgeJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Chief Dan George – Little Big Man
Richard Castellano – Lovers and Other Strangers
Trevor Howard – Ryan's Daughter
Frank Langella – Diary of a Mad Housewife
John Marley – Love Story
John Mills – Ryan's Daughter
Film Editing: Patton – Hugh S. Fowler
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
M*A*S*H
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock - DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJack NicholsonKaren BlackBilly Green BushA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces
Beatrice Arthur – Lovers and Other Strangers
Lee Grant – The Landlord
Helen Hayes – Airport
Sally Kellerman – M*A*S*H
Maureen Stapleton – Airport
Costume: Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese
Airport
Darling Lili
The Hawaiians
Scrooge
Women In Love - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.Best Screenplay
Original: Patton – Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North
Five Easy Pieces
Husbands
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Joe
Love Story
Adapted: M*A*S*H – Ring Lardner Jr.
Airport
Diary of a Mad Housewife
I Never Sang for My Father
Lovers and Other Strangers
Women in Love - DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy) – Elio Petri
First Love (Switzerland)
Hoa-Binh (France)
Peace Over the Fields (Belgium)
A Swedish Love Story (Sweden)
Tristana (Spain)
Visual Effect: Tora! Tora! Tora!
Airport
Patton - DirectorCy HowardStarsGig YoungBea ArthurBonnie BedeliaMike and Susan's wedding is overshadowed by family drama, including Mike's brother's divorce, Susan's father's affair, her sister's marital troubles, and Mike's friend pursuing the maid of honor.Best Soundtrack
Song: "For All We Know" Lovers and Other Strangers – Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer
"Pieces of Dreams" Pieces of Dreams
"Suicide Is Painless" M*A*S*H
"Thank You Very Much" Scrooge
"Till Love Touches Your Life" Madron
"Whistling Away the Dark" Darling Lili
Score: Love Story – Francis Lai
Airport
Cromwell
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Let It Be
Patton - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.Best Film
Winner: The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Sunday Bloody Sunday - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesAlex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize in a decaying near-future.Best Director
Winner: William Friedkin – The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
Jan Troell – The Emigrants
Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sound: Fiddler on the Roof
A Clockwork Orange
Diamonds Are Forever
The French Connection
Kotch
Mary, Queen of Scots - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsTopolNorma CraneLeonard FreyIn pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.Best Actor
Winner: Gene Hackman – The French Connection
Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Walter Matthau – Kotch
Malcolm McDowell – A Clockwork Orange
George C. Scott – The Hospital
Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof
Cinematography: Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Summer of '42
Walkabout - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsJane FondaDonald SutherlandCharles CioffiA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.Best Actress
Winner: Jane Fonda – Klute
Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra
Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants
Production: Nicholas and Alexandra – Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo
The Andromeda Strain
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
Mary, Queen of Scots - DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show
Tom Baker – Nicholas and Alexandra
Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Jaeckel – Sometimes a Great Notion
Roy Scheider – The French Connection
Film Editing: The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg
The Andromeda Strain
A Clockwork Orange
Kotch
Summer of '42
Sunday Bloody Sunday - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsMichael JaystonJanet SuzmanRoderic NobleTsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show
Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge
Candice Bergen – Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show
Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between
Diana Rigg – The Hospital
Costume: Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Boyfriend
Death in Venice
Mary, Queen of Scots
What's the Matter with Helen? - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsPeter FinchGlenda JacksonMurray HeadThe emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.Best Screenplay
Original: Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt
Carnal Knowledge
Harold and Maude
The Hospital
Klute
Summer of '42
Adapted: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman
A Clockwork Orange
The Conformist
The Emigrants
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Last Picture Show - DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannEddie AxbergSmåland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Emigrants (Sweden) – Jan Troell
Dodes'ka-den (Japan)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy)
Mon oncle Antoine (Canada)
The Policeman (Israel)
Tchaikovsky (Soviet Union)
Visual Effect: Bedknobs and Broomsticks
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnCharles CioffiA crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Theme from Shaft" Shaft – Isaac Hayes
"The Age of Not Believing" Bedknobs and Broomsticks
"All His Children" Sometimes a Great Notion
"Bless the Beasts and Children" Bless the Beasts and Children
"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" Harold and Maude
"Life Is What You Make It" Kotch
Score: Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nicholas and Alexandra
Shaft
Straw Dogs
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Best Film
Winner: The Godfather
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
Deliverance
Sleuth
Sounder - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLaurence OlivierMichael CaineAlec CawthorneA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.Best Director
Winner: Bob Fosse – Cabaret
Ingmar Bergman – Cries & Whispers
John Boorman – Deliverance
Alfred Hitchcock – Frenzy
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth
Sound: Cabaret
Butterflies Are Free
The Candidate
Deliverance
The Godfather
The Poseidon Adventure - DirectorMartin RittStarsCicely TysonPaul WinfieldKevin HooksThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.Best Actor
Winner: Marlon Brando – The Godfather
Michael Caine – Sleuth
Laurence Olivier – Sleuth
Peter O'Toole – The Ruling Class
Al Pacino – The Godfather
Paul Winfield – Sounder
Cinematography: The Godfather – Gordon Willis
Butterflies Are Free
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
The Poseidon Adventure
Travels with My Aunt - DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.Best Actress
Winner: Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
Goldie Hawn – Butterflies Are Free
Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith – Travel with My Aunt
Cicely Tyson – Sounder
Joanne Woodward – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Production: Cabaret – Hans Jurgen Kiebach and Rolf Zehetbauer
The Godfather
Lady Sings the Blues
The Poseidon Adventure
Travel with My Aunt
Young Winston - DirectorJohn BoormanStarsJon VoightBurt ReynoldsNed BeattyIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Joel Grey – Cabaret
Eddie Albert – The Heartbreak Kid
Ned Beatty – Deliverance
Ernest Borgnine – The Poseidon Adventure
James Caan – The Godfather
Robert Duvall – The Godfather
Film Editing: The Godfather – William Reynolds and Peter Zinner
Cabaret
Deliverance
Frenzy
The Hot Rock
The Poseidon Adventure - DirectorMilton KatselasStarsGoldie HawnEdward AlbertEileen HeckartA blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid
Geraldine Page – Pete 'n' Tillie
Talia Shire – The Godfather
Susan Tyrrell – Fat City
Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure
Costume: Travels with My Aunt – Anthony Powell
Cabaret
Cries & Whispers
The Godfather
Lady Sings the Blues
The Poseidon Adventure - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLiv UllmannKari SylwanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.Best Screenplay
Original: Cries & Whispers – Ingmar Bergman
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Candidate
Lady Sings the Blues
What’s Up, Doc?
Young Winston
Adapted: The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Cabaret
The Heartbreak Kid
Pete 'n' Tillie
Sleuth
Sounder