45th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1973)

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• Date of Ceremony: Tuesday, March 27, 1973
• For films released in: 1972

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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 45th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

• Cabaret
  Cy Feuer [Producer]
• Deliverance
  John Boorman [Producer]
• The Emigrants
  Bengt Forslund [Producer]
• The Godfather
  Albert S. Ruddy [Producer]
• Sounder
  Robert B. Radnitz [Producer]

Best Directing

• Cabaret
  Bob Fosse
• Deliverance
  John Boorman
• The Emigrants
  Jan Troell
• The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Sleuth
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Best Actor

• The Godfather
  Marlon Brando
• The Ruling Class
  Peter O'Toole
• Sleuth
  Michael Caine
• Sleuth
  Laurence Olivier
• Sounder
  Paul Winfield

Best Actress

• Cabaret
  Liza Minnelli
• The Emigrants
  Liv Ullmann
• Lady Sings the Blues
  Diana Ross
• Sounder
  Cicely Tyson
• Travels with My Aunt
  Maggie Smith

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Cabaret
  Joel Grey
• The Godfather
  James Caan
• The Godfather
  Robert Duvall
• The Godfather
  Al Pacino
• The Heartbreak Kid
  Eddie Albert

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Butterflies Are Free
  Eileen Heckart
• Fat City
  Susan Tyrrell
• The Heartbreak Kid
  Jeannie Berlin
• Pete 'n' Tillie
  Geraldine Page
• The Poseidon Adventure
  Shelley Winters

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Dawns Here Are Quiet
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• I Love You Rosa
• My Dearest Señorita
• The New Land

Best Art Direction

• Cabaret
  Rolf Zehetbauer [Art Direction], Jurgen Kiebach [Art Direction] and Herbert Strabel [Set Decoration]
• Lady Sings the Blues
  Carl Anderson [Art Direction] and Reg Allen [Set Decoration]
• The Poseidon Adventure
  William Creber [Art Direction] and Raphael Bretton [Set Decoration]
• Travels with My Aunt
  Joe Box [Art Direction], Gil Parrondo [Art Direction] and Robert W. Laing [Art Direction]
• Young Winston
  Geoffrey Drake [Art Direction], Don Ashton [Art Direction], John Graysmark [Art Direction], William Hutchinson [Art Direction] and Peter James [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

• 1776
  Harry Stradling Jr.
• Butterflies Are Free
  Charles B. Lang Jr.
• Cabaret
  Geoffrey Unsworth
• The Poseidon Adventure
  Harold E. Stine
• Travels with My Aunt
  Douglas Slocombe

Best Costume Design

• The Godfather
  Anna Hill Johnstone
• Lady Sings the Blues
  Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan and Norma Koch
• The Poseidon Adventure
  Paul Zastupnevich
• Travels with My Aunt
  Anthony Powell
• Young Winston
  Anthony Mendleson

Best Documentary (Feature)

• Ape and Super-Ape
  Bert Haanstra
• Malcolm X
  Marvin Worth and Arnold Perl
• Manson
  Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick
• Marjoe
  Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan
• The Silent Revolution
  Eckehard Munck

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
  Peter Schamoni
• K-Z
  Giorgio Treves
• Selling Out
  Tadeusz Jaworski
• This Tiny World
  Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden
• The Tide of Traffic
  Humphrey Swingler

Best Film Editing

• Cabaret
  David Bretherton
• Deliverance
  Tom Priestley
• The Godfather
  William Reynolds and Peter Zinner
• The Hot Rock
  Frank P. Keller and Fred W. Berger
• The Poseidon Adventure
  Harold F. Kress

Best Music (Original Dramatic Score)

• The Godfather
  Nino Rota [Nomination withdrawn]
• Images
  John Williams
• Limelight
  Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell
• Napoleon and Samantha
  Buddy Baker
• The Poseidon Adventure
  John Williams
• Sleuth
  John Addison

Best Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)

• Cabaret
  Ralph Burns [Adaptation Score by]
• Lady Sings the Blues
  Gil Askey [Adaptation Score by]
• Man of La Mancha
  Laurence Rosenthal [Adaptation Score by]

Best Music (Song - Original for the Picture)

• Ben "Ben"
  Walter Scharf [Music by] and Don Black [Lyrics by]
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"
  Maurice Jarre [Music by], Marilyn Bergman [Lyrics by] and Alan Bergman [Lyrics by]
• The Little Ark "Come Follow, Follow Me"
  Fred Karlin [Music by] and Marsha Karlin [Lyrics by]
• The Poseidon Adventure "The Morning After"
  Al Kasha [Music and Lyrics by] and Joel Hirschhorn [Music and Lyrics by]
• The Stepmother "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
  Sammy Fain [Music by] and Paul Francis Webster [Lyrics by]

Best Short Subject (Animated)

• A Christmas Carol
  Richard Williams
• Kama Sutra Rides Again
  Bob Godfrey
• Tup Tup
  Nedeljko Dragic

Best Short Subject (Live Action)

• Frog Story
  Ron Stalof and Ray Gideon
• Norman Rockwell's World...An American Dream
  Richard Barclay
• Solo
  David Adams

Best Sound

• Butterflies Are Free
  Arthur Piantadosi and Charles Knight
• Cabaret
  Robert Knudson and David Hildyard
• The Candidate
  Richard Portman and Gene Cantamessa
• The Godfather
  Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman
• The Poseidon Adventure
  Theodore Soderberg and Herman Lewis

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

• Cabaret
  Jay Allen
• The Emigrants
  Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund
• The Godfather
  Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
• Pete 'n' Tillie
  Julius J. Epstein
• Sounder
  Lonne Elder, III

Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)

• The Candidate
  Jeremy Larner
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  Luis Buñuel [Story and Screenplay by] and Jean-Claude Carrière [in collaboration with]
• Lady Sings the Blues
  Terence McCloy, Chris Clark and Suzanne de Passe
• Murmur of the Heart
  Louis Malle
• Young Winston
  Carl Foreman