Oscars 1972 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection

Best Director!

Winner: Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Don Siegel - Dirty Harry
Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
William Friedkin - The French Connection

Best Actor!

Winner: Gene Hackman, The French Connection!

Nominees:
Michael Caine - Get Carter
Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry
Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Chaim Topol - Fiddler on the Roof

Best Actress!

Winner: Jane Fonda, Klute!

Nominees:
Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Ruth Gordon - Harold and Maude
Vanessa Redgrave - Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman - Nicholas and Alexandra

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
Jack Albertson - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Jeff Bridges - The Last Picture Show
Andy Robinson - Dirty Harry
Roy Scheider - The French Connection

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
Glenda Jackson - Mary, Queen of Scots
Cybill Shepherd - The Last Picture Show

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Colin Higgins, Harold and Maude!

Nominees:
Jules Feiffer - Carnal Knowledge
Paddy Chayefsky - The Hospital
Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis - Klute
Penelope Gilliatt - Sunday Bloody Sunday

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurty, The Last Picture Show!

Nominees:
Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist
Ernest Tidyman - The French Connection
Robert Altman and Brian McKay - McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Best Foreign Language Film!

Winner: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis!

Nominees:
Dodes'ka-den
The Emigrants
The Policeman
Tchaikovsky

Best Costume Design!

Winner: Nicholas and Alexandra!

Nominees:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Death in Venice
Mary, Queen of Scots
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Best Documentary Feature!

Winner: The Hellstrom Chronicle!

Nominees:
Alaska Wilderness Lake
On Any Sunday
Ra
The Sorrow and the Pity

Best Documentary Short!

Winner: Sentinels of Silence!

Nominees:
Adventures in Perception
Art Is...
The Numbers Start With the River
Somebody Waiting

Best Live Action Short!

Winner: Sentinels of Silence!

Nominees:
Good Morning
The Rehearsal

Best Animated Short!

Winner: The Crunch Bird!

Nominees:
Evolution
The Selfish Giant

Best Original Score!

Winner: Shaft!

Nominees:
Mary, Queen of Scots
Nicholas and Alexandra
Straw Dogs
Summer of '42

Best Original Song or Adaptation Score!

Winner: Fiddler on the Roof!

Nominees:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Boy Friend
Tchaikovsky
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Best Original Song!

Winner: Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft, Shaft!

Nominees:
Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman - The Age of Not Believing, Bedknobs & Broomsticks
Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Henry Mancini - All His Children, Sometimes a Great Notion
Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon - Bless the Beasts and Children, Bless the Beasts and Children
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley - Pure Imagination, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Best Sound Mixing!

Winner: Fiddler on the Roof!

Nominees:
Diamonds Are Forever
The French Connection
Kotch
Mary, Queen of Scots

Best Art Direction!

Winner: Nicholas and Alexandra!

Nominees:
The Andromeda Strain
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Fiddler on the Roof
Mary, Queen of Scots

Best Cinematography!

Winner: Fiddler on the Roof!

Nominees:
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Summer of '42

Best Film Editing!

Winner: The French Connection!

Nominees:
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show

Best Visual Effects!

Winner: Bedknobs and Broomsticks!

Nominees:
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory