Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

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1974 edition

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Julia Phillips

  🏆 Michael Phillips

  🏆 Tony Bill

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: American Graffiti · A Touch of Class · Francis Ford Coppola · Gary Kurtz · Ingmar Bergman · Melvin Frank · Cries and Whispers · William Peter Blatty

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 DeWitt Sage

  🏆 Julian Krainin

  🏆 Princeton: A Search for Answers

  Also nominated: Albert Maysles · Background · Carmen D'Avino · Children at Work · Christo's Valley Curtain · David Maysles · Four Stones for Kanemitsu · June Wayne · Louis Marcus · Terry Sanders

• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

  🏆 Allan Miller

  🏆 William Fertik

  For the film: The Bolero

  Also nominated: Clockmaker · John Watson · Life Times Nine · Pen Densham · Richard Gayer

• Academy Award for Best Production Design

  🏆 Henry Bumstead

  🏆 James W. Payne

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: Tom Sawyer · Bill Malley · Brother Sun, Sister Moon · Carmelo Patrono · Gianni Quaranta · Jerry Wunderlich · Lorenzo Mongiardino · The Exorcist · Philip M. Jefferies · Robert De Vestel · Stephen B. Grimes · The Way We Were · William Kiernan

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Chris Newman

  🏆 Robert Knudson

  For the film: The Exorcist

  Also nominated: Donald O. Mitchell · Larry Jost · Les Fresholtz · Paper Moon · Richard Portman · Robert R. Bertrand · Ronald Pierce · The Day of the Dolphin · The Paper Chase · The Sting

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Frank Mouris

  For the film: Frank Film

  Also nominated: David Adams · Emanuele Luzzati · Giulio Gianini · Nick Bosustow · Pulcinella · The Legend of John Henry

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  🏆 Sven Nykvist

  For the film: Cries and Whispers

  Also nominated: Harry Stradling · Jack Couffer · Jonathan Livingston Seagull · The Exorcist · Owen Roizman · Robert Surtees · The Sting · The Way We Were

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design

  🏆 Edith Head

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: Tom Sawyer · Donfeld · Dorothy Jeakins · Ludwig · Marik Vos-Lundh · Moss Mabry · Piero Tosi · The Way We Were · Cries and Whispers

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 George Roy Hill

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: American Graffiti · Bernardo Bertolucci · George Lucas · Ingmar Bergman · The Exorcist · Last Tango in Paris · William Friedkin

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 William Reynolds

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: American Graffiti · Bud S. Smith · Evan A. Lottman · Frank P. Keller · James Galloway · Jonathan Livingston Seagull · Jordan Leondopoulos · Marcia Lucas · Norman Gay · The Day of the Jackal · The Exorcist · Ralph Kemplen · Verna Fields

• Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

  🏆 Marvin Hamlisch

  For the film: The Sting

  Also nominated: Andrew Lloyd Webber · Tom Sawyer · Herbert W. Spencer · Jesus Christ Superstar · John Williams · Richard M. Sherman · Robert B. Sherman

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 John Houseman

  For the film: The Paper Chase

  Also nominated: Bang the Drum Slowly · Jack Gilford · Jason Miller · The Exorcist · Randy Quaid · Save the Tiger · The Last Detail · Vincent Gardenia

• Academy Scientific and Technical Award

  🏆 Erich Kästner

  🏆 Harold A. Scheib

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  Also nominated: Papillon

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