Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The French Connection
Philip D'Antoni, producer
A Clockwork Orange
Fiddler on the Roof
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Best Director
Winner
William Friedkin
The French Connection
Peter Bogdanovich— The Last Picture Show
Norman Jewison— Fiddler on the Roof
Stanley Kubrick— A Clockwork Orange
John Schlesinger— Sunday Bloody Sunday
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Gene Hackman
The French Connection
Peter Falk— A Woman Under the Influence
Walter Matthau— Kotch
George C. Scott— The Hospital
Topol— Fiddler on the Roof
Best Actress
Winner
Jane Fonda
Klute
Julie Christie— McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Glenda Jackson— Sunday Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave— Mary Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman— Nicholas and Alexandra
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
Jeff Bridges— The Last Picture Show
Leonard Frey— Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Jaeckel— Sometimes a Great Notion
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show
Ann-Margret— Carnal Knowledge
Ellen Burstyn— The Last Picture Show
Barbara Harris— Who Is Harry Kellerman
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro— Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis— Klute
Herman Raucher— Summer of ’42
Penelope Gilliatt— Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Ernest Tidyman
The French Connection
Stanley Kubrick— A Clockwork Orange
Bernardo Bertolucci— The Conformist
Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli— The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich— The Last Picture Show
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Michel Legrand
Summer of '42
John Barry— Mary, Queen of Scots
Richard Rodney Bennett— Nicholas and Alexandra
Isaac Hayes— Shaft
Jerry Fielding— Straw Dogs
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
John Lanchbery, Lanchbery
Fiddler on the Roof
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal— Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Greenwell— The Boy Friend
John Williams— Fiddler on the Roof
Dimitri Tiomkin— Tchaikovsky
Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Walter Scharf— Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Best Original Song
Winner
"Theme from Shaft" — Isaac Hayes
Shaft
“The Age of Not Believing” — Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman— Bedknobs and Broomsticks
“All His Children” — Henry Mancini, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman— Sometimes a Great Notion
“Bless the Beasts and Children” — Barry DeVorzon, Perry Botkin Jr.— Bless the Beasts & Children
“Life Is What You Make It” — Marvin Hamlisch, Johnny Mercer— Kotch
“Theme from Shaft” — Isaac Hayes— Shaft
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Oswald Morris
Fiddler on the Roof
Owen Roizman— The French Connection
Robert Surtees— The Last Picture Show
Freddie Young— Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert Surtees— Summer of ’42
Best Film Editing
Winner
Jerry Greenberg
The French Connection
Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes— The Andromeda Strain
Bill Butler— A Clockwork Orange
Ralph E. Winters— Kotch
Folmar Blangsted— Summer of ’42
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon
Nicholas and Alexandra
Boris Leven, William Tuntke, Ruby Levitt— The Andromeda Strain
John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman— Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer, Peter Lamont— Fiddler on the Roof
Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt— Mary, Queen of Scots
Best Costume Design
Winner
Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Nicholas and Alexandra
Bill Thomas— Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Piero Tosi— Death in Venice
Margaret Furse— Mary, Queen of Scots
Morton Haack— What's the Matter with Helen?
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Fiddler on the Roof
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton— Diamonds Are Forever
Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman— The French Connection
Richard Portman, Jack Solomon— Kotch
Bob Jones, John Aldred— Mary, Queen of Scots
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken— When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Crunch Bird
Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions
Michael Mills— Evolution
Peter Sander, Murray Shostak— The Selfish Giant
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green — insect kingdom documentary
Alan Landsburg— Alaska Wilderness Lake
Bruce Brown— On Any Sunday
Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl— The Ra Expeditions
Marcel Ophuls— The Sorrow and the Pity
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Italy — Vittorio De Sica
Dodes'ka-Den
The Emigrants
The Policeman
Tchaikovsky