1972 ceremony · films of 1971

The 44th Oscars

103 nominations in 22 categories.

Nominations and wins

The night's big films

Winners first

Every category

Best Picture

The French Connection
Philip D'Antoni, Producer
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick, Producer
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison, Producer
Nicholas and Alexandra
Sam Spiegel, Producer
The Last Picture Show
Stephen J. Friedman, Producer

Best Director

Best Actor

Announced as Actor

Gene Hackman · Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle
The French Connection
Topol · Tevye
Fiddler on the Roof
Walter Matthau · Joseph P. Kotcher
Kotch
Peter Finch · Dr. Daniel Hirsh
Sunday Bloody Sunday
George C. Scott · Dr. Herbert Bock
The Hospital

Best Actress

Announced as Actress

Jane Fonda · Bree Daniel
Klute
Vanessa Redgrave · Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
Julie Christie · Mrs. Constance Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Janet Suzman · Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra
Glenda Jackson · Alex Greville
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson · Sam the Lion
The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey · Motel
Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Jaeckel · Joe Ben Stamper
Sometimes a Great Notion
Roy Scheider · Buddy Russo
The French Connection
Jeff Bridges · Duane Jackson
The Last Picture Show

Best Supporting Actress

Cloris Leachman · Ruth Popper
The Last Picture Show
Ann-Margret · Bobbie
Carnal Knowledge
Margaret Leighton · Mrs. Maudsley
The Go-Between
Ellen Burstyn · Lois Farrow
The Last Picture Show
Barbara Harris · Allison
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Best Original Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Story and Screenplay--Based On Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Announced as Writing (Screenplay--Based On Material From Another Medium)

Best International Feature

Announced as Foreign Language Film

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Italy
Dodes'ka-den
Japan
Tchaikovsky
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Emigrants
Sweden
The Policeman
Israel

Best Documentary Feature

The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green, Producer
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Alan Landsburg, Producer
On Any Sunday
Bruce Brown, Producer
The Ra Expeditions
Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers
The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophuls, Producer
Marcel Ophüls

Best Cinematography

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design

Nicholas and Alexandra
Art Direction: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Fiddler on the Roof
Art Direction: Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
Robert F. Boyle
Mary, Queen of Scots
Art Direction: Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
The Andromeda Strain
Art Direction: Boris Leven, William Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby Levitt
William H. Tuntke Ruby R. Levitt

Best Costume Design

Best Original Score

Announced as Music (Original Dramatic Score)

Best Song Score or Adaptation Score

Announced as Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)

Fiddler on the Roof
Adaptation Score by John Williams
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
Tchaikovsky
Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
The Boy Friend
Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf

Best Original Song

Announced as Music (Song--Original for the Picture)

Shaft · Theme From Shaft
Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes
Bedknobs and Broomsticks · The Age Of Not Believing
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Bless the Beasts & Children · Bless The Beasts & Children
Music and Lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
Barry De Vorzon Perry Botkin Jr.
Kotch · Life Is What You Make It
Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sometimes a Great Notion · All His Children
Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

Best Sound

Announced as Sound

Fiddler on the Roof
Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Diamonds Are Forever
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton
John W. Mitchell Al Overton
Kotch
Richard Portman, Jack Solomon
Mary, Queen of Scots
Bob Jones, John Aldred
The French Connection
Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman

Best Visual Effects

Announced as Special Visual Effects

Best Documentary Short

Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Adventures in Perception
Han van Gelder, Producer
Han Van Gelder
Art Is...
Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
DeWitt Sage
Somebody Waiting
Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens, Producers
Woody Omens
The Numbers Start with the River
Donald Wrye, Producer

Best Animated Short

Announced as Short Subject (Animated)

The Crunch Bird
Ted Petok, Producer
Evolution
Michael Mills, Producer
The Selfish Giant
Peter Sander and Murray Shostak, Producers

Best Live Action Short

Announced as Short Subject (Live Action)

Sentinels of Silence
Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Good Morning
Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald, Producers
The Rehearsal
Stephen F. Verona, Producer
Stephen Verona

Not competitive

Honorary and special awards

Honorary Award

Charles Chaplin
To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century.