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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

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner markerLee Grant in Shampoo, Rubeeker Productions; Columbia.

Directing

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

Art Direction-Set Decoration

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

Cinematography

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

Costume Design

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

Documentary

(Feature)

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

(Short Subject)

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

Film Editing

Winner markerJaws, Universal-Zanuck/Brown Production; Universal. Verna Fields.

Foreign Language Film

Winner markerDersu Uzala, Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union, Japan)

Music

(Original Score)

Winner markerJaws, Universal-Zanuck/Brown Production; Universal. John Williams.

(Original Song)

Winner markerI’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)

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

Short Films

(Animated)

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

(Live Action)

Winner markerAngel and Big Joe, Bert salzman Productions. Bert Salzman, Producer.

Sound

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

Special Achievement Award

(Sound Effects)

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

(Visual Effects)

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

Writing

(Original Screenplay)

Winner markerDog Day Afternoon, Warner Bros. Frank Pierson.

(Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

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

Honorary Award

Winner markerTo 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

Winner markerJules C. Stein

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Winner markerMervyn LeRoy

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

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

Winner markerTo 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.
Winner markerTo 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.
Winner markerTo Joseph Westheimer for the development of a device to obtain shadowed titles on motion picture films.
Winner markerTo Carter Equipment Company, Inc. and RAMtronics for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Winner markerTo Hollywood Film Company for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Winner markerTo Bell & Howell for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Winner markerTo Fredrik Schlyter for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.