44th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1972)
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- Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 10, 1972
- For films released in: 1971
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 44th Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
- A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick [Producer] - Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison [Producer] - The French Connection
Philip D'Antoni [Producer] - The Last Picture Show
Stephen J. Friedman [Producer] - Nicholas and Alexandra
Sam Spiegel
Best Directing
- A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick - Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison - The French Connection
William Friedkin - The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich - Sunday Bloody Sunday
John Schlesinger
Best Actor
- Fiddler on the Roof
Topol - The French Connection
Gene Hackman - The Hospital
George C. Scott - Kotch
Walter Matthau - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Peter Finch
Best Actress
- Klute
Jane Fonda - Mary, Queen of Scots
Vanessa Redgrave - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Julie Christie - Nicholas and Alexandra
Janet Suzman - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Glenda Jackson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Fiddler on the Roof
Leonard Frey - The French Connection
Roy Scheider - The Last Picture Show
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
Ben Johnson - Sometimes a Great Notion
Richard Jaeckel
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Carnal Knowledge
Ann-Margret - The Go-Between
Margaret Leighton - The Last Picture Show
Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
Cloris Leachman - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me?
Barbara Harris
Best Foreign Language Film
- Dodes'ka-Den
- The Emigrants
- The Garden of the Finzi Continis
- The Policeman
- Tchaikovsky
Best Art Direction
- The Andromeda Strain
Boris Leven [Art Direction], William Tuntke [Art Direction] and Ruby Levitt [Set Decoration] - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
John B. Mansbridge [Art Direction], Peter Ellenshaw [Art Direction], Emile Kuri [Set Decoration] and Hal Gausman [Set Decoration] - Fiddler on the Roof
Robert Boyle [Art Direction], Michael Stringer [Art Direction] and Peter Lamont [Set Decoration] - Mary, Queen of Scots
Terence Marsh [Art Direction], Robert Cartwright [Art Direction] and Peter Howitt [Set Decoration] - Nicholas and Alexandra
John Box [Art Direction], Ernest Archer [Art Direction], Jack Maxsted [Art Direction], Gil Parrondo [Art Direction] and Vernon Dixon [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography
- Fiddler on the Roof
Oswald Morris - The French Connection
Owen Roizman - The Last Picture Show
Robert Surtees - Nicholas and Alexandra
Freddie Young - Summer of '42
Robert Surtees
Best Costume Design
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bill Thomas - Death in Venice
Piero Tosi - Mary, Queen of Scots
Margaret Furse - Nicholas and Alexandra
Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo - What's the Matter with Helen?
Morton Haack
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Alaska Wilderness Lake
Alan Landsburg - The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green - On Any Sunday
Bruce Brown - The RA Expeditions
Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl - The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophuls
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Adventures in Perception
Han van Gelder - Art Is...
Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr. - The Numbers Start with the River
Donald Wrye - Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram - Somebody Waiting
Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens
Best Film Editing
- The Andromeda Strain
Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes - A Clockwork Orange
Bill Butler - The French Connection
Jerry Greenberg - Kotch
Ralph E. Winters - Summer of '42
Folmar Blangsted
Best Music (Original Dramatic Score)
- Mary, Queen of Scots
John Barry - Nicholas and Alexandra
Richard Rodney Bennett - Shaft
Isaac Hayes - Straw Dogs
Jerry Fielding - Summer of '42
Michael Legrand
Best Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Richard M. Sherman [Song Score by], Robert B. Sherman [Song Score by] and Irwin Kostal [Adaptation Score by] - The Boy Friend
Peter Maxwell Davies [Adaptation Score by] and Peter Greenwell [Adaptation Score by] - Fiddler on the Roof
John Williams [Adaptation Score by] - Tchaikovsky
Dimitri Tiomkin [Adaptation Score by] - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Leslie Bricusse [Song Score by], Anthony Newley [Song Score by] and Walter Scharf [Adaptation Score by]
Best Music (Song - Original for the Picture)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks "The Age of Not Believing"
Richard M. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] and Robert B. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] - Bless the Beasts & Children "Bless the Beasts & Children"
Barry DeVorzon [Music and Lyrics by] and Perry Botkin, Jr. [Music and Lyrics by] - Kotch "Life Is What You Make It"
Marvin Hamlisch [Music by] and Johnny Mercer [Lyrics by] - Shaft "Theme from Shaft"
Isaac Hayes [Music and Lyrics by] - Sometimes a Great Notion "All His Children"
Henry Mancini [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyrics by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyrics by]
Best Short Subject (Animated)
- The Crunch Bird
Ted Petok - Evolution
Michael Mills - The Selfish Giant
Peter Sander and Murray Shostak
Best Short Subject (Live Action)
- Good Morning
Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald - The Rehearsal
Stephen F. Verona - Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram
Best Sound
- Diamonds Are Forever
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton - Fiddler on the Roof
Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard - The French Connection
Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman - Kotch
Richard Portman and Jack Solomon - Mary, Queen of Scots
Bob Jones and John Aldred
Best Special Visual Effects
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee - When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick - The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci - The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman - The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli - The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
- The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky - Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion
Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro - Klute
Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis - Summer of '42
Herman Raucher - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Penelope Gilliatt