Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1972 edition

Academy Award for Best Production Design

Ernest Archer

Gil Parrondo

Jack Maxsted

John Box

Vernon Dixon

For the film: Nicholas and Alexandra

Also nominated: Boris Leven · Emile Kuri · Fiddler on the Roof · Hal Gausman · John B. Mansbridge · Mary, Queen of Scots · Michael Stringer · Peter Ellenshaw · Peter Howitt · Peter Lamont · Robert Cartwright · Robert F. Boyle · Ruby R. Levitt · Bedknobs and Broomsticks · Terence Marsh · The Andromeda Strain · William H. Tuntke
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Alan Maley

Danny Lee

Eustace Lycett

For the film: Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Also nominated: Jim Danforth · Roger Dicken · When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Antonio Castillo

Yvonne Blake

For the film: Nicholas and Alexandra

Also nominated: Bill Thomas · Margaret Furse · Mary, Queen of Scots · Death in Venice · Morton Haack · Piero Tosi · What's the Matter with Helen? · Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Manuel Arango

Robert Amram

For the film: Sentinels of Silence

Also nominated: Adventures in Perception · Art Is... · DeWitt Sage · Dick Snider · Donald Wrye · Hal Riney · Han van Gelder · Julian Krainin · Somebody Waiting · The Numbers Start with the River · Woody Omens
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

Manuel Arango

Robert Amram

For the film: Sentinels of Silence

Also nominated: Denny Evans · Good Morning · Ken Greenwald · Stephen Verona · The Rehearsal
Academy Award for Best Sound

David Hildyard

Gordon McCallum

For the film: Fiddler on the Roof

Also nominated: Diamonds Are Forever · Al Overton · Bob Jones · Chris Newman · Jack Solomon · John Aldred · John W. Mitchell · Kotch · Mary, Queen of Scots · Richard Portman · The French Connection · Theodore Soderberg
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Ted Petok

For the film: The Crunch Bird

Also nominated: Evolución · Michael Mills · Murray Shostak · Peter Sander · The Selfish Giant
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Oswald Morris

For the film: Fiddler on the Roof

Also nominated: Freddie Young · Nicholas and Alexandra · Owen Roizman · Robert Surtees · Summer of '42 · The French Connection · The Last Picture Show
Academy Award for Best Director

William Friedkin

For the film: The French Connection

Also nominated: John Schlesinger · Norman Jewison · Peter Bogdanovich · Stanley Kubrick · Sunday Bloody Sunday · The Last Picture Show
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Gerald B. Greenberg

For the film: The French Connection

Also nominated: Bill Butler · Folmar Blangsted · John W. Holmes · Kotch · A Clockwork Orange · Ralph E. Winters · Stuart Gilmore · Summer of '42 · The Andromeda Strain
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

John Williams

For the film: Fiddler on the Roof

Also nominated: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · Anthony Newley · Tchaikovsky · Dimitri Tiomkin · Irwin Kostal · Leslie Bricusse · Peter Greenwell · Peter Maxwell Davies · Richard M. Sherman · Robert B. Sherman · Bedknobs and Broomsticks · The Boy Friend · Walter Scharf
Academy Award for Best Picture

Philip D'Antoni

For the film: The French Connection

Also nominated: Fiddler on the Roof · A Clockwork Orange · Nicholas and Alexandra · Norman Jewison · Sam Spiegel · Stanley Kubrick · Stephen J. Friedman · The Last Picture Show
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson

For the film: The Last Picture Show

Also nominated: Fiddler on the Roof · Jeff Bridges · Leonard Frey · Richard Jaeckel · Roy Scheider · Sometimes a Great Notion · The French Connection
Academy Scientific and Technical Award

Fenton Hamilton

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