Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay 1972
44th Academy Awards · held April 10, 1972 · 5 nominees
- 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