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1972 Academy Awards

The 1972 Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

Cabaret, Cy Feuer, producer (Allied Artists)

Deliverance, John Boorman, producer (Warner Bros.)

The Emigrants, Bengt Forslund, producer (Warner Bros.)

The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy, producer (Paramount)

Sounder, Robert B. Radnitz, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Best Actor

Marlon Brando, The Godfather

Michael Caine, Sleuth

Laurence Olivier, Sleuth

Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class

Paul Winfield, Sounder

Best Actress

Liza Minelli, Cabaret

Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues

Maggie Smith, Travels With My Aunt

Cicely Tyson, Sounder

Liv Ullman, The Emigrants

Actor in a Supporting Role

Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid

James Caan, The Godfather

Robert Duvall, The Godfather

Joel Grey, Cabaret

Al Pacino, The Godfather

Actress in a Supporting Role

Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid

Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free

Geraldine Page, Pete 'n' Tillie

Susan Tyrrell, Fat City

Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure

Directing

John Boorman, Deliverance

Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather

Bob Fosse, Cabaret

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sleuth

Jan Troell, The Emigrants

Writing

Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium	Jay Allen, Cabaret
	Lonne Elder, III, Sounder
	Julius J. Epstein, Pete 'n' Tillie
	Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
	Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund, The Emigrants
Original Screenplay	Luis Buñuel, story and screenplay in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
	Carl Foreman, Young Winston
	Jeremy Larner, The Candidate
	Louis Malle, Murmur of the Heart
	Terence McCloy, Chris Clark and Suzanne de Passe, Lady Sings the Blues

Cinematography

Charles B. Lang, Butterflies Are Free

Douglas Slocombe, Travels With My Aunt

Harold E. Stine, The Poseidon Adventure

Harry Stradling, Jr., 1776

Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret

Art Direction

Carl Anderson, art direction; Reg Allen, set decoration, Lady Sings the Blues

Don Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark and William Hutchinson, art direction; Peter James, set decoration, Young Winston

John Box, Gil Parrondo and Robert W. Laing, art direction and set decoration, Travels With My Aunt

William Creber, art direction; Raphael Bretton, set decoration, The Poseidon Adventure

Rolf Zehetbauer and Jurgen Kiebach, art direction; Herbert Strabel, set decoration, Cabaret

Sound

Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman, The Godfather

Robert Knudson and David Hildyard, Cabaret

Arthur Piantadosi and Charles Knight, Butterflies Are Free

Richard Portman and Gene Cantamessa, The Candidate

Theodore Soderberg and Herman Lewis, The Poseidon Adventure

Music

Song	“Ben,” Ben, Walter Scharf, music; Don Black, lyrics
	“Come Follow, Follow Me,” The Little Ark, Fred Karlin, music; Marsha Karlin, lyrics
	“Marmalade, Molasses & Honey,” The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Maurice Jarre, music; Marilyn and Alan Bergman, lyrics
	*“The Morning After,” The Poseidon Adventure, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, music and lyrics*
	“Strange Are the Ways of Love,” The Stepmother, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics
Original Dramatic Score	John Addison, Sleuth
	Buddy Baker, Napoleon and Samantha
	Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell, Limelight
	John Williams, Images
	John Williams, The Poseidon Adventure
Scoring: Adaptation and Original Score	Gil Askey, Lady Sings the Blues
	Ralph Burns, Cabaret
	Laurence Rosenthal, Man of La Mancha

Film Editing

David Bretherton, Cabaret

Frank P. Keller and Fred W. Berger, The Hot Rock

Harold F. Kress, The Poseidon Adventure

Tom Priestley, Deliverance

William Reynolds and Peter Zinner, The Godfather

Costume Design

Anna Hill Johnstone, The Godfather

Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan and Norma Koch, Lady Sings the Blues

Anthony Mendleson, Young Winston

Anthony Powell, Travels With My Aunt

Paul Zastupnevich, The Poseidon Adventure

Short Subjects

Animated	A Christmas Carol (Richard Williams Production; American Broadcasting Company Film Services)
	Kama Sutra Rides Again (Bob Godfrey Films, Ltd.; Lion International Films)
	Tup Tup (Zagreb Film-Corona Cinematografica Production; Manson Distributing)
Live Action	Frog Story (Gidron Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
	Norman Rockwell's World…An American Dream (Concepts Unlimited; Columbia)
	Solo (Pyramid Films; United Artists)

Documentary

Short Subject	Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (Argos Films-Peter Schamoni Film Production)
	K-Z (Giorgio Treves, producer; Nexus Film S.r.l. Production)
	Selling Out (Tadeusz Jaworski, producer; Unit Productions Film)
	This Tiny World (Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, producers; Charles Huguenot van der Linden Production)
	The Tide of Traffic (Humphrey Swingler, producer; BP-Greenpark Production)
Feature	Ape and Super-Ape (Bert Haanstra Film Production; Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Welfare)
	Malcolm X (Marvin Worth Production; Warner Bros.)
	Manson (Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, producers; Merrick International Pictures)
	Marjoe (Cinema X Production; Cinema 5, Ltd.)
	The Silent Revolution (Eckehard Munck, producer; Leonaris Film Production)