1975 (48th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1975 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fantasy Films Production; United Artists. Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers.

Best Actor

Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fantasy Films Production; United Artists.

Best Actress

Louise Fletcher in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fantasy Films Production; United Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

George Burns in The Sunshine Boys, Ray Stark Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Lee Grant in Shampoo, Rubeeker Productions; Columbia.

Directing

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fantasy Films Production; United Artists. Milos Forman.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Barry Lyndon, Hawk Films, Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Art direction by Ken Adam and Roy Walker; set decoration by Vernon Dixon.

Cinematography

Barry Lyndon, Hawk Films, Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) John Alcott.

Costume Design

Barry Lyndon, Hawk Films, Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Ulla-Britt Soderlund and Milena Canonero.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Man Who Skied down Everest, Crawley Films Presentation. (Canada, Japan, USA) F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben, Producers.

(Short Subject)

The End of the Game, Opus Films Limited. Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers.

Film Editing

Jaws, Universal-Zanuck/Brown Production; Universal. Verna Fields.

Foreign Language Film

Dersu Uzala, Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union, Japan)

Music

(Original Score)

Jaws, Universal-Zanuck/Brown Production; Universal. John Williams.

(Original Song)

I’m Easy from Nashville, ABC Entertainment-Jerry Weintraub-Robert Altman Production; Paramount. Music and lyrics by Keith Carradine.

(Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation)

Barry Lyndon, Hawk Films, Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Adaptation score by Leonard Rosenman.

Short Films

(Animated)

Great, Grantstern Ltd. and British Lion Films Ltd. (UK) Bob Godfrey, Producer.

(Live Action)

Angel and Big Joe, Bert salzman Productions. Bert Salzman, Producer.

Sound

Jaws, Universal-Zanuck/Brown Production; Universal. Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John Carter.

Special Achievement Award

(Sound Effects)

The Hindenburg, Robert Wise-Filmakers Group-Universal Production; Universal. Peter Berkos.

(Visual Effects)

The Hindenburg, Robert Wise-Filmakers Group-Universal Production; Universal. Albert Whitlock and Glen Robinson.

Writing

(Original Screenplay)

Dog Day Afternoon, Warner Bros. Frank Pierson.

(Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Fantasy Films Production; United Artists. Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman.

Honorary Award

To Mary Pickford in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Jules C. Stein

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Mervyn LeRoy

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Chadwell O’Connor of the O’Connor Engineering Laboratories for the concept and engineering of a fluid-damped camera-head for motion picture photography.

To William F. Miner of Universal City Studios, Inc. and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for the development and engineering of a solid-state, 500 kilowatt, direct-current static rectifier for motion picture lighting.

(Class III)

To Lawrence W. Butler and Roger Banks for the concept of applying low inertia and stepping electric motors to film transport systems and optical printers for motion picture production.

To David J. Degenkolb and Fred Scobey of Deluxe General Incorporated and John C. Dolan and Richard Dubois of the Akwaklame Company for the development of a technique for silver recovery from photographic wash-waters by ion exchange.

To Joseph Westheimer for the development of a device to obtain shadowed titles on motion picture films.

To Carter Equipment Company, Inc. and RAMtronics for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.

To Hollywood Film Company for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.

To Bell & Howell for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.

To Fredrik Schlyter for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.