44th Academy Awards
Held in 1972 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner The French Connection
- Nominee A Clockwork Orange
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof
- Nominee Nicholas and Alexandra
- Nominee The Last Picture Show
Best Actor
- Winner The French Connection · Gene Hackman
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof · Chaim Topol
- Nominee Kotch · Walter Matthau
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · Peter Finch
- Nominee The Hospital · George C. Scott
Best Actress
- Winner Klute · Jane Fonda
- Nominee Mary, Queen of Scots · Vanessa Redgrave
- Nominee McCabe & Mrs. Miller · Julie Christie
- Nominee Nicholas and Alexandra · Janet Suzman
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · Glenda Jackson
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner The Last Picture Show · Ben Johnson
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof · Leonard Frey
- Nominee Sometimes a Great Notion · Richard Jaeckel
- Nominee The French Connection · Roy Scheider
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner The Last Picture Show · Cloris Leachman
- Nominee Carnal Knowledge · Ann-Margret
- Nominee The Go-Between · Margaret Leighton
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Ellen Burstyn
- Nominee Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? · Barbara Harris
Best Director
- Winner The French Connection · William Friedkin
- Nominee A Clockwork Orange · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof · Norman Jewison
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · John Schlesinger
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Peter Bogdanovich
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner The Hospital · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion · Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
- Nominee Klute · Andy Lewis, David E. Lewis
- Nominee Summer of '42 · Herman Raucher
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · Penelope Gilliatt
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner The French Connection · Ernest Tidyman
- Nominee A Clockwork Orange · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee The Conformist · Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nominee The Garden of the Finzi-Continis · Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Best International Feature Film
- Winner The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
- Nominee Dodes'ka-den
- Nominee Tchaikovsky
- Nominee The Emigrants
- Nominee The Policeman
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner The Hellstrom Chronicle · Walon Green
- Nominee Alaska Wilderness Lake · Alan Landsburg
- Nominee On Any Sunday · Bruce Brown
- Nominee Ra · Lennart Ehrenborg
- Nominee The Sorrow and the Pity · Marcel Ophuls
Best Original Score
- Winner Fiddler on the Roof · John Williams
- Winner Summer of '42 · Michel Legrand
- Nominee Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Irwin Kostal, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
- Nominee Mary, Queen of Scots · John Barry
- Nominee Nicholas and Alexandra · Richard Rodney Bennett
- Nominee Shaft · Isaac Hayes
- Nominee Straw Dogs · Jerry Fielding
- Nominee Tchaikovsky · Dimitri Tiomkin
- Nominee The Boy Friend · Peter Greenwell, Peter Maxwell Davies
- Nominee Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Walter Scharf
Best Original Song
- Winner Theme from Shaft from Shaft · Isaac Hayes
- Nominee All His Children from Sometimes a Great Notion · Alan Bergman, Henry Mancini, Marilyn Bergman
- Nominee Bless the Beasts and Children from Bless the Beasts and Children · Barry De Vorzon, Perry Botkin Jr.
- Nominee Life Is What You Make It from Kotch · Johnny Mercer, Marvin Hamlisch
- Nominee The Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Best Cinematography
- Winner Fiddler on the Roof · Oswald Morris
- Nominee Nicholas and Alexandra · F. A. Young
- Nominee Summer of '42 · Robert L. Surtees
- Nominee The French Connection · Owen Roizman
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Robert L. Surtees
Best Film Editing
- Winner The French Connection · Gerald B. Greenberg
- Nominee A Clockwork Orange · Bill Butler
- Nominee Kotch · Ralph E. Winters
- Nominee Summer of '42 · Folmar Blangsted
- Nominee The Andromeda Strain · John W. Holmes, Stuart Gilmore
Best Production Design
- Winner Nicholas and Alexandra · Ernest Archer, Gil Parrondo, Jack Maxsted, John Box, Vernon Dixon
- Nominee Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman, John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof · Michael Stringer, Peter Lamont, Robert F. Boyle
- Nominee Mary, Queen of Scots · Peter Howitt, Robert Cartwright, Terence Marsh
- Nominee The Andromeda Strain · Boris Leven, Ruby R. Levitt, William H. Tuntke
Best Costume Design
- Winner Nicholas and Alexandra · Antonio Castillo, Yvonne Blake
- Nominee Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Bill Thomas
- Nominee Death in Venice · Piero Tosi
- Nominee Mary, Queen of Scots · Margaret Furse
- Nominee What's the Matter with Helen? · Morton Haack
Best Sound
- Winner Fiddler on the Roof · David Hildyard, Gordon McCallum
- Nominee Diamonds Are Forever · Al Overton, Gordon McCallum, John W. Mitchell
- Nominee Kotch · Jack Solomon, Richard Portman
- Nominee Mary, Queen of Scots · Bob Jones, John Aldred
- Nominee The French Connection · Chris Newman, Theodore Soderberg
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Alan Maley, Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett
- Nominee When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth · Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken