46th Academy Awards (1974)
Highlights of 46th Academy Awards ceremony
The 46th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1973.
The award ceremony was held on 2nd April 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven
The Sting won the Best Picture award.
Jack Lemmon won the Best Actor award for his role in Save the Tiger.
Glenda Jackson won the Best Actess award for her role in A Touch of Class.
George Roy Hill won the Best Director award for The Sting.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Sting
American Graffiti
Cries and Whispers
The Exorcist
A Touch of Class
Best Director
The Sting
- George Roy Hill
American Graffiti
- George Lucas
Cries and Whispers
- Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist
- William Friedkin
Last Tango in Paris
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Best Original Screenplay
The Sting
- David S. Ward
American Graffiti
- George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
Cries and Whispers
- Ingmar Bergman
Save the Tiger
- Steve Shagan
A Touch of Class
- Melvin Frank, Jack Rose
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Exorcist
- William Peter Blatty
The Last Detail
- Robert Towne
The Paper Chase
- James Bridges
Paper Moon
- Alvin Sargent
Serpico
- Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Save the Tiger
- Jack Lemmon
The Last Detail
- Jack Nicholson
Last Tango in Paris
- Marlon Brando
Serpico
- Al Pacino
The Sting
- Robert Redford
Best Actress in a Leading Role
A Touch of Class
- Glenda Jackson
Cinderella Liberty
- Marsha Mason
The Exorcist
- Ellen Burstyn
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- Joanne Woodward
The Way We Were
- Barbra Streisand
Best Supporting Actor
The Paper Chase
- John Houseman
Bang the Drum Slowly
- Vincent Gardenia
The Exorcist
- Jason Miller
The Last Detail
- Randy Quaid
Save the Tiger
- Jack Gilford
Best Supporting Actress
Paper Moon
- Tatum O'Neal
American Graffiti
- Candy Clark
The Exorcist
- Linda Blair
Paper Moon
- Madeline Kahn
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
- Sylvia Sydney
Best Art Direction
The Sting
- Henry Bumstead, James W. Payne
Best Cinematography
Cries and Whispers
- Sven Nykvist
Best Original Song
The Way We Were
- Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
for "The Way We Were"
Best Original Score
The Way We Were
- Marvin Hamlisch
Best Sound Mixing
The Exorcist
- Robert Knudson, Christopher Newman
Best Costume Design
The Sting
- Edith Head
Best Animated Short Film
Frank Film
Best Documentary Feature
The Great American Cowboy
Best Documentary Short Subject
Princeton - A Search for Answers
Best Foreign Language Film
Day for Night
Academy Honorary Award
Groucho Marx
Best Live Action Short Film
The Bolero
Best Film Editing
The Sting
- William Reynolds
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
The Sting
- Marvin Hamlisch