44th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1972)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 10, 1972
  • For films released in: 1971
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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
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