44th Academy Awards (1972)
Highlights of 44th Academy Awards ceremony
The 44th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1971.
The award ceremony was held on 10th April 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Lemmon
The French Connection won the Best Picture award.
Gene Hackman won the Best Actor award for his role in The French Connection.
Jane Fonda won the Best Actess award for her role in Klute.
William Friedkin won the Best Director award for The French Connection.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Best Director
The French Connection
- William Friedkin
A Clockwork Orange
- Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof
- Norman Jewison
The Last Picture Show
- Peter Bogdanovich
Sunday Bloody Sunday
- John Schlesinger
Best Original Screenplay
The Hospital
- Paddy Chayefsky
Investigation of a Private Citizen
- Ugo Pirro and Elio Petri
Klute
- Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis
Summer of '42
- Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Penelope Gilliatt
Best Adapted Screenplay
The French Connection
- Ernest Tidyman
A Clockwork Orange
- Stanley Kubrick
The Conformist
- Bernardo Bertolucci
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonecelli
The Last Picture Show
- Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The French Connection
- Gene Hackman
Fiddler on the Roof
- Topol
The Hospital
- George C. Scott
Kotch
- Walter Matthau
Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Peter Finch
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Klute
- Jane Fonda
Mary, Queen of Scots
- Vanessa Redgrave
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Julie Christie
Nicholas and Alexandra
- Janet Suzman
Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Glenda Jackson
Best Supporting Actor
The Last Picture Show
- Ben Johnson
Fiddler on the Roof
- Leonard Frey
The French Connection
- Roy Scheider
The Last Picture Show
- Jeff Bridges
Sometimes a Great Notion
- Richard Jaeckel
Best Supporting Actress
The Last Picture Show
- Cloris Leachman
Carnal Knowledge
- Ann-Margret
The Go-Between
- Margaret Leighton
The Last Picture Show
- Ellen Burstyn
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- Barbara Harris
Best Art Direction
Nicholas and Alexandra
- John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon
Best Cinematography
Fiddler on the Roof
- Oswald Morris
Best Original Song
Shaft
- Isaac Hayes
for "Theme from Shaft"
Best Original Score
Summer of '42
- Michel Legrand
Best Sound Mixing
Fiddler on the Roof
- Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Best Visual Effects
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Alan Maley, Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett
Best Costume Design
Nicholas and Alexandra
- Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Best Animated Short Film
The Crunch Bird
Best Documentary Feature
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Best Documentary Short Subject
Sentinels of Silence
Best Foreign Language Film
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Academy Honorary Award
Charles Chaplin
Best Live Action Short Film
Sentinels of Silence
Best Film Editing
The French Connection
- Gerald B.Greenberg
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Fiddler on the Roof
- John Williams