44th Academy Awards
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- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for William Friedkin
Winner - Best Actor for Gene Hackman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Roy Scheider
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ernest Tidyman
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Chris Newman and Theodore Soderberg
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Owen Roizman
Winner - Best Film Editing for Gerald B. Greenberg - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Stanley Kubrick
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Stanley Kubrick
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Bill Butler - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsTopolNorma CraneLeonard FreyIn pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Norman Jewison
Nominated - Best Actor for Chaim Topol
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Leonard Frey
Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Winner - David Hildyard and Gordon McCallum
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for Oswald Morris - DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsTimothy BottomsJeff BridgesCybill ShepherdIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Peter Bogdanovich
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Ben Johnson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jeff Bridges
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Cloris Leachman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Ellen Burstyn
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsMichael JaystonJanet SuzmanRoderic NobleTsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actress for Janet Suzman
Winner - Best Costume Design for Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
Nominated - Best Original Score (Dramatic) for Richard Rodney Bennett
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Freddie Young - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsPeter FinchGlenda JacksonMurray HeadThe emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.Nominated - Best Director for John Schlesinger
Nominated - Best Actor for Peter Finch
Nominated - Best Actress for Glenda Jackson
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Penelope Gilliatt - DirectorJack LemmonStarsWalter MatthauDeborah WintersFelicia FarrWanting to avoid settling in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenager and begins to understand the true meaning of life as he helps the girl give birth to her child.Nominated - Best Actor for Walter Matthau
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Life Is What You Make It"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Richard Portman and Jack Solomon
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Ralph E. Winters - DirectorArthur HillerStarsGeorge C. ScottDiana RiggBarnard HughesA hospital's chief-of-staff struggles to find meaning in his life during a spate of staff deaths.Nominated - Best Actor for George C. Scott
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Paddy Chayefsky - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsJane FondaDonald SutherlandCharles CioffiA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.Winner - Best Actress for Jane Fonda
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsWarren BeattyJulie ChristieRene AuberjonoisA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.Nominated - Best Actress for Julie Christie
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsVanessa RedgraveGlenda JacksonPatrick McGoohanDuring the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.Nominated - Best Actress for Vanessa Redgrave
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Margaret Furse
Nominated - Best Original Score (Dramatic) for John Barry
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for John Aldred and Bob Jones
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorPaul NewmanStarsPaul NewmanHenry FondaLee RemickA family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Richard Jaeckel
Nominated - Best Original Song for "All His Children" - DirectorMike NicholsStarsJack NicholsonCandice BergenArt GarfunkelChronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and become friends in college.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Ann-Margret
- 19711h 48mR5.4 (1.1K)DirectorUlu GrosbardStarsDustin HoffmanBarbara HarrisJack WardenGeorgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Barbara Harris
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJulie ChristieAlan BatesDominic GuardA tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Leighton
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsJennifer O'NeillGary GrimesJerry HouserDuring his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Herman Raucher
Winner - Best Original Score (Dramatic) for Michel Legrand
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Folmar Blangsted - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantStefania SandrelliGastone MoschinA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsDominique SandaLino CapolicchioHelmut BergerThe story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pirro
Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsYoshitaka ZushiKin SugaiToshiyuki TonomuraVarious tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Japan)
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannEddie AxbergSmåland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden) (1972)
Nominated - Best Picture (1973)
Nominated - Best Director for Jan Troell (1973)
Nominated - Best Actress for Liv Ullmann (1973)
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Bengt Forslund and Jan Troell (1973) - DirectorEphraim KishonStarsShaike OphirZaharira HarifaiAvner HizkiyahuOne of Israel's most beloved films, this film centers around the policeman Azulai, who is as kind as he as inept.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Israel)
- DirectorIgor TalankinStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyAntonina ShuranovaKirill LavrovThe life and work of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky is shown through his relationship with aristocratic art connoisseur Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (USSR)
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score - DirectorRobert StevensonWard KimballStarsAngela LansburyDavid TomlinsonRoddy McDowallAn apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical magician conman search for the missing component to a magic spell to be used in the defense of Britain in World War II.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Bill Thomas
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Age of Not Believing"
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Visual Effects for Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett and Alan Maley - DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeRomolo ValliMark BurnsWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Piero Tosi
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsDebbie ReynoldsShelley WintersDennis WeaverTwo middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Morton Haack
- DirectorWalon GreenEd SpiegelStarsLawrence PressmanConlan CarterIan McShaneA scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorBruce BrownStarsSteve McQueenDave AldanaMark BrelsfordDocumentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLennart EhrenborgThor HeyerdahlStarsNorman BakerRoscoe Lee BrowneAbdullah DilbrineDocumentary of the Ra expedition organized by Thor Heyerdahl, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat in 1969 and 1970.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsHelmut TausendMarcel VerdierAlexis GraveAn in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorRobert AmramStarsRicardo MontalbanOrson WellesAn 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.Winner - Best Documentary Short
Winner - Best Live Action Short - DirectorHan Van GelderAn introduction to the work of graphic artist M.C. Escher.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJulian KraininDeWitt Sage"What is art?" The film offers some new answers to the age old question.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorDonald WryeStarsPeter HaskellWilliam ChalleeFlorence WhiteDepicts the quality of life in a small river town in the heartland of America. There are thousands of such towns across the United States. Illustrates an old farm couple's memories of play, work, family life, courtship, and marriage.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorHal RineyDick SniderStarsJames DalyMarie FitzgeraldJoan MohrAt Corcoran Cottage at Sonoma State Hospital in California, staff try to improve the lives of intellectually disabled children.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorKen GreenwaldStarsRoger CarrollVern RoweA man wakes up hoping to have a good day, but reality keeps getting in the way.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorStephen VeronaStarsDick ClairJenna McMahonA humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with an inquisitive actress during the rehearsal of a play.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorTed PetokStarsLen MaxwellA woman goes into a pet store seeking a gift for her husband. She decides to get him a bird with a most unusual talent, but her gift brings about an unforeseen result.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorMichael MillsA humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorPeter SanderStarsPaul HechtCharles AznavourThe King SistersA giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but then winter sets in permanently.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnCharles CioffiA crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.Nominated - Best Original Score (Dramatic) for Isaac Hayes
Winner - Best Original Song for "Theme from Shaft" - DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsDustin HoffmanSusan GeorgePeter VaughanA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.Nominated - Best Original Score (Dramatic) for Jerry Fielding
- DirectorKen RussellStarsTwiggyChristopher GableMax AdrianWhen the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- DirectorMel StuartStarsGene WilderJack AlbertsonPeter OstrumA poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsBill MumyBarry RobinsMiles ChapinA group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Bless the Beasts and Children"
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsSean ConneryJill St. JohnCharles GrayA diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing for Gordon McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames OlsonArthur HillDavid WayneTop scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes - DirectorVal GuestStarsVictoria VetriRobin HawdonPatrick AllenSanna escapes being sacrificed and meets Tara. Together, they live in a seaside tribe that worships the Sun God and survive the dangers of the creatures from the Mesozoic Era.Nominated - Best Visual Effects for Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken