1972 (45th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1972 (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

The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount. Albert S. Ruddy, Producer.

Best Actor

Marlon Brando in The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount.

Best Actress

Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Joel Grey in Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Eileen Heckart in Butterflies Are Free, Frankovich Productions; Columbia.

Directing

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Bob Fosse.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Art direction by Rolf Zehetbauer and Jurgen Kiebach; set decoration by Herbert Strabel.

Cinematography

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Geoffrey Unsworth.

Costume Design

Travels with My Aunt, Robert Fryer Productions; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Anthony Powell.

Documentary

(Feature)

Marjoe, Cinema X Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, Producers.

(Short Subject)

This Tiny World, Charles Huguenot van der Linden Production. (Netherlands) Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden, Producers.

Film Editing

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. David Bretherton.

Foreign Language Film

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Serge Silberman Production; 20th Century-Fox. (France)

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

Limelight, Charles Chaplin Productions; Columbia. Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell.

(Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Adaptation score by Ralph Burns.

(Song [Original for the Picture])

The Morning After from The Poseidon Adventure, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.

Short Subjects

(Animated)

A Christmas Carol, Richard Williams Production; American Broadcasting Company Film Services. Richard Williams, Producer.

(Live Action)

Norman Rockwell’s World . . . An American Dream, Concepts Unlimited Production; Columbia. Richard Barclay, Producer.

Sound

Cabaret, ABC Pictures Production; Allied Artists. Robert Knudson and David Hildyard.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

The Poseidon Adventure, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox. L. B. Abbott and A. D. Flowers.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

The Godfather, Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount. Mario Puzzo and Francis Ford Coppola.

(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)

The Candidate, Redford-Ritchie Production; Warner Bros. Jeremy Larner.

Honorary Award

To Charles S. Boren, leader for 38 years of the industry’s enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of non-discrimination. With respect and affection of all who work in films. [ [Statuette]]

To Edward G. Robinson who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen . . . in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Rosalind Russell

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Joseph E. Bluth for research and development in the field of electronic photography and transfer of video tape to motion picture film.

To Edward H. Reichard and Howard T. La Zare of Consolidated Film Industries, and Edward Efron of IBM for the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.

To Panavision, Incorporated, for the development and engineering of the Panaflex motion picture camera.

(Class III)

To Photo Research, a Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, and PSC Technology, Inc., Acme Products Division, for the Spectra Film Gate Photometer for motion picture printers.

To Carter Equipment Company, Inc. and RAMtronics for the RAMtronics light-valve photometer for motion picture printers.

To David Degenkolb, Harry Larson, Manfred Michelson and Fred Scobey of DeLuxe General Incorporated for the development of a computerized motion picture printer and process control system.

To Jiro Mukai and Ryusho Hirose of Canon, Inc., and Wilton R. Holm of the AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for development of the Canon Macro Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.

To Philip V. Palmquist and Leonard L. Olson of the 3M Company, and Frank P. Clark of the AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for development of the Nextel simulated blood for motion picture color photography.

To E. H. Geissler and G. M. Berggren of Wil-Kin Inc., for engineering of the Ultra-Vision Motion Picture Theater Projection System.