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1973 Academy Awards

The 1973 Academy Awards were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

American Graffiti, Francis Ford Coppola, producer; Gary Kurtz, co-producer (Universal)

Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman, producer (New World Pictures)

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, producer (Warner Bros.)

The Sting, Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, producers (Universal)

A Touch of Class, Melvin Frank, producer (Avco Embassy)

Best Actor

Marlon Brando, Last Tango in Paris

Jack Lemmon, Save the Tiger

Jack Nicholson, The Last Detail

Al Pacino, Serpico

Robert Redford, The Sting

Best Actress

Ellen Burstyn, The Exorcist

Glenda Jackson, A Touch of Class

Marsha Mason, Cinderella Liberty

Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were

Joanne Woodward, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Actor in a Supporting Role

Vincent Gardenia, Bang the Drum Slowly

Jack Gilford, Save the Tiger

John Houseman, The Paper Chase

Jason Miller, The Exorcist

Randy Quaid, The Last Detail

Actress in a Supporting Role

Linda Blair, The Exorcist

Candy Clark, American Graffiti

Madeline Kahn, Paper Moon

Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon

Sylvia Sidney, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon

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Directing

Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers

Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris

William Friedkin, The Exorcist

George Roy Hill, The Sting

George Lucas, American Graffiti

Writing

Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium	William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
	James Bridges, The Paper Chase
	Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler, Serpico
	Alvin Sargent, Paper Moon
	Robert Towne, The Last Detail
Original Screenplay	Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers
	Melvin Frank and Jack Rose, A Touch of Class
	George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, American Grafitti
	Steve Shagan, Save the Tiger
	David S. Ward, The Sting

Cinematography

Jack Couffer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Sven Nykvist, Cries and Whispers

Owen Roizman, The Exorcist

Harry Stradling, Jr., The Way We Were

Robert Surtees, The Sting

Art Direction

Henry Bumstead, art direction; James Payne, set decoration, The Sting

Stephen Grimes, art direction; William Kiernan, set decoration, The Way We Were

Philip Jefferies, art direction; Robert de Vestel, set decoration, Tom Sawyer

Bill Malley, art direction; Jerry Wunderlich, set decoration, The Exorcist

Lorenzo Mongiardino and Gianni Quaranta, art direction; Carmelo Patrono, set decoration, Brother Sun Sister Moon

Sound

Robert Knudson and Chris Newman, The Exorcist

Donald O. Mitchell and Lawrence O. Jost, The Paper Chase

Ronald K. Pierce and Robert Bertrand, The Sting

Richard Portman and Les Fresholtz, Paper Moon

Richard Portman and Lawrence O. Jost, The Day of the Dolphin

Music

Song	“All That Love Went to Waste,” A Touch of Class, George Barrie, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
	“Live and Let Die,” Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, music and lyrics
	“Love,” Robin Hood, George Bruns, music; Floyd Huddleston, lyrics
	“Nice to Be Around,” Cinderella Liberty, John Williams, music; Paul Williams, lyrics
	*“The Way We Were,” The Way We Were, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics*
Original Dramatic Score	John Cameron, A Touch of Class
	Georges Delerue, The Day of the Dolphin
	Jerry Goldsmith, Papillon
	Marvin Hamlisch, The Way We Were
	John Williams, Cinderella Liberty
Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation	Marvin Hamlisch, The Sting
	André Previn, Herbert Spencer and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar
	Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; John Williams, adaptation, Tom Sawyer

Film Editing

Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas, American Graffiti

Frank P. Keller and James Galloway, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Ralph Kemplen, The Day of the Jackal

Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman and Norman Gay, The Exorcist

William Reynolds, The Sting

Costume Design

Donfeld, Tom Sawyer

Edith Head, The Sting

Dorothy Jeakins and Moss Mabry, The Way We Were

Piero Tosi, Ludwig

Marik Vos, Cries and Whispers

Short Subjects

Animated	Frank Film (Frank Mouris, producer; Frank Mouris Production)
	The Legend of John Henry (Nick Bosustow and David Adams, producers; Bosustow-Pyramid Films Production)
	Pulcinella (Emanuele Luzzati and Guilio Gianini, producers; Luzzati-Gianini Production)
Live Action	The Bolero (Allan Miller and William Fertik, producers; Allan Miller Production)
	Clockmaker (Richard Gayer, producer; James Street Productions)
	Life Times Nine (Pen Densham and John Watson, producers; Insight Productions)

Documentary

Short Subject	Background (Carmen D'Avino, producer; D'Avino and Fucci-Stone Productions)
	Children at Work (Paisti Ag Obair) (Louis Marcus, producer; Gael-Linn Films)
	Christo's Valley Curtain (Albert Maysles and David Maysles, producers; Maysles Films Production)
	Four Stones for Kanemitsu (Terry Sanders and June Wayne, producers; Tamarind Production)
	Princeton: A Search for Answers (Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., producers; Krainin-Sage Productions)
Feature	Always a New Beginning (John D. Goodell, producer; Goodell Motion Pictures)
	Battle of Berlin (Bengt von zur Muehlen, producer; Chronos Film GmbH)
	The Great American Cowboy (Keith Merrill, producer; Keith Merrill Associates-Rodeo Film Productions)
	Journey to the Outer Limits (Alex Grasshoff, producer; National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions)
	Walls of Fire (Gertrude Ross Marks and Edmund F. Penney, producers; Mentor Productions)

Foreign Language Film

Day for Night, France

The House of Chelouche Street, Israel

L'Invitation, Switzerland

The Pedestrian, Federal Republic of Germany—West

Turkish Delight, Netherlands

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Lawrence Weingarten

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Lew Wasserman

Honorary Awards

To Henri Langlois for his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future

To Groucho Marx in recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled acheivements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy

1974 Academy Awards

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1972 Academy Awards