1974 (47th Annual Awards)
Academy Award Overview
Shown below is an overview of the 1974 Academy Awards, comprised of selected items from the WebMaster’s collection. (All of the items for a given category—for example, all Reminder Lists—can be found in the “Gallery” section.)
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The 1974 Preliminaries
 
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Eligibility Period: January 1, 1974 to December 31, 1974 Reminder List of Eligible Releases Text of Voting Rules |
The 1974 Ceremony
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Tuesday, April 8, 1975 7:00 PM Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles County Music Center Ceremony Poster Ceremony Program Nominations & Winners Winners Only Nominations by Film Nomination Statistics by Film See Also: Nominations & Winners by Category Winners Only by Category |
The 1974 Winners
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Best Picture: The Godfather Part II Coppola Company Production; Paramount Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers Best Picture Poster Best Picture Home Page Background |
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Best Actor: Art Carney as Harry Coombes in the film Harry and Tonto |
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Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt in the film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore |
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Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone in the film The Godfather Part II |
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Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in the film Murder on the Orient Express |
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Best Song: We May Never Love Like This Again from the film The Towering Inferno Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn Best Song Lyrics |
