Academy Awards®
Awards for 1972
Picture
Cy Feuer - Producer, CABARET
Won eight Awards.
John Boorman - Producer, DELIVERANCE
Bengt Forslund - Producer, THE EMIGRANTS
* Albert S. Ruddy - Producer, THE GODFATHER
Robert B. Radnitz - Producer, SOUNDER
Actor
* Marlon Brando, THE GODFATHER
Michael Caine, SLEUTH
Lord Laurence Olivier, SLEUTH
Peter O'Toole, THE RULING CLASS
Paul Winfield, SOUNDER
Actress
* Liza Minnelli, CABARET
Diana Ross, LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Dame Maggie Smith, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Cicely Tyson, SOUNDER
Liv Ullmann, THE EMIGRANTS
Supporting Actor
Eddie Albert, THE HEARTBREAK KID
James Caan, THE GODFATHER
Robert Duvall, THE GODFATHER
* Joel Grey, CABARET
Al Pacino, THE GODFATHER
Supporting Actress
Jeannie Berlin, THE HEARTBREAK KID
* Eileen Heckart, BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Geraldine Page, PETE 'N' TILLIE
Susan Tyrrell, FAT CITY
Shelley Winters, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Director
John Boorman, DELIVERANCE
Francis Ford Coppola, THE GODFATHER
* Bob Fosse, CABARET
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, SLEUTH
Jan Troell, THE EMIGRANTS
Writing - Story and Screenplay (Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
* Jeremy Larner, THE CANDIDATE
Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne DePasse, LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Louis Malle, MURMUR OF THE HEART
Carl Foreman, YOUNG WINSTON
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
Jay Presson Allen, CABARET
Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund, THE EMIGRANTS
* Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, THE GODFATHER
Julius J. Epstein, PETE 'N' TILLIE
Lonne Elder, III, SOUNDER
Foreign Film
THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET
(U.S.S.R.)
* THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
(France)
I LOVE YOU ROSA
(Israel)
MY DEAREST SEÑORITA
(Spain)
THE NEW LAND
(Sweden)
Art Direction
Carl Anderson - Art Direction, Reg Allen - Set Decoration, LADY SINGS THE BLUES
* Rolf Zehetbauer - Art Direction, Jurgen Kiebach - Art Direction, Herbert Strabel - Set Decoration, CABARET
John Box - Art Direction, Gil Parrondo - Art Direction, Robert W. Laing - Art Direction, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
William Creber - Art Direction, Raphael Bretton - Set Decoration, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Don Ashton - Art Direction, Geoffrey Drake - Art Direction, John Graysmark - Art Direction, William Hutchinson - Art Direction, Peter James - Set Decoration, YOUNG WINSTON
Cinematography
Charles B. Lang, BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
* Geoffrey Unsworth, CABARET
Harold E. Stine, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Harry Stradling, Jr., 1776
Douglas Slocombe, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Costume Design
Anna Hill Johnstone, THE GODFATHER
Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch, LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Paul Zastupnevich, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
* Anthony Powell, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Anthony Mendleson, YOUNG WINSTON
Documentary Feature
Bert Haanstra - Producer, APE AND SUPER APE
Marvin Worth - Producer, Arnold Perl - Producer, MALCOLM X
* Howard Smith - Producer, Sarah Kernochan - Producer, MARJOE
Eckehard Munck - Producer, THE SILENT REVOLUTION
Robert Hendrickson - Producer, Laurence Merrick - Producer, MANSON
Documentary Short Story
(formerly Short Subject)
Peter Schamoni - Producer, HUNDERTWASSER'S RAINY DAY
Giorgio Treves - Producer, K-Z
Tadeusz Jaworski - Producer, SELLING OUT
* Charles Huguenot van der Linden - Producer, Martina Huguenot van der Linden - Producer, THIS TINY WORLD
Humphrey Swingler - Producer, THE TIDE OF TRAFFIC
Film Editing
* David Bretherton, CABARET
Tom Priestly, DELIVERANCE
William H. Reynolds, Peter Zinner, THE GODFATHER
Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger, THE HOT ROCK
Harold F. Kress, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Music - Original Dramatic Score
John Williams, IMAGES
* Sir Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell, LIMELIGHT
Buddy Baker, NAPOLEON AND SAMANTHA
John Williams, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
John Addison, SLEUTH
Music - Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score
* Ralph Burns, CABARET
Gil Askey, LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Laurence Rosenthal, MAN OF LA MANCHA
Music - Song (Original to the Picture)
Walter Scharf - Music, Don Black - Lyrics, BEN
"Ben"
Fred Karlin - Music, Marsha Karlin - Lyrics, THE LITTLE ARK
"Come Follow, Follow Me"
Maurice Jarre - Music, Marilyn Bergman - Lyrics, Alan Bergman - Lyrics, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN
"Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"
* Al Kasha - Music & Lyrics, Joel Hirschhorn - Music & Lyrics, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
"The Morning After"
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, THE STEPMOTHER
"Strange Are the Ways of Love"
Short Subjects - Animated Films
* Richard Williams - Producer, A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Bob Godfrey - Producer, KAMA SUTRA RIDES AGAIN
Nedeljko Dragic - Producer, TUP TUP
Short Subjects - Live Action Films
* Richard Barclay - Producer, NORMAN ROCKWELL'S WORLD... AN AMERICAN DREAM
David Adams - Producer, SOLO
Ron Satlof - Producer, Ray Gideon - Producer, FROG STORY
Sound
Arthur Piantadosi, Charles Knight, BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
* Robert Knudson, David Hildyard, CABARET
Richard Portman, Gene Cantamessa, THE CANDIDATE
Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman, Christopher Newman, THE GODFATHER
Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Sound Effects
This award discontinued 1968-1981.
Special Visual Effects
No award given for 1972. See Special Achievement Awards 1972.
Special Achievement
* L.B. Abbott - Visual Effects, A.D. Flowers - Visual Effects, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1972.
Class II (Plaque)
* Joseph E. Bluth, For research and development in the field of electronic photography and transfer of video tape to motion picture film.
* Edward H. Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries)
Howard T. Lazare (Consolidated Film Industries)
Edward Efron (IBM)
For the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.
* Panavision Incorporated, For the development and engineering of the Panaflex motion picture camera.
Class III (Citation)
* David Degenkolb (DeLuxe General Inc.)
Harry Larson (DeLuxe General Inc.)
Manfred Michelson (DeLuxe General Inc.)
Fred Scobey (DeLuxe General Inc.)
For the development of a computerized motion picture printer and process control system.
* Carter Equipment Company Inc.
Ramtronics, For the RAMtronics light-valve photometer for motion picture printers.
* Jiro Mukai - Canon Inc.
Ryusho Hirose - Canon Inc.
Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Pictures and Television Research Center)
For the development of the Canon Macro Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.
* Philip V. Palmquist (3M Company)
Leonard L. Olson (3M Company)
Frank P. Clark (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center)
For development of the Nextel simulated blood for motion picture color photography.
* E.H. Geissler (Wil-Kin Inc.)
Glenn M. Berggren (Wil-Kin Inc.)
For engineering of the Ultra-Vision Motion Picture Theater Projection System.
* Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, PSC Technology Inc.--Acme Products Division, For the Spectra Film Gate Photometer for motion picture printers.
Honorary and Other Awards
* Charles S. Boren, Leader for 38 years of the industry's enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of non-discrimination. With the respect and affection of all who work in films. Winner presented a Statuette.
* Edward G. Robinson, Who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen...in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves. Winner presented a Statuette.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1972.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
* Rosalind Russell,