Academy Award for Best Original Song 1972
44th Academy Awards · held April 10, 1972 · 5 nominees
- 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 · Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Mercer
- Nominee The Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman