Academy Awards 1973

Event History

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Best Picture

WINNER:
The Godfather: Albert S. Ruddy

NOMINEES:
Cabaret: Cy Feuer
Deliverance: John Boorman
The Emigrants: Bengt Forslund
Sounder: Robert B. Radnitz

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
The Godfather: Marlon Brando
Refused to accept the award for the reason that the U.S. and especially Hollywood are discriminating Native American people. Brando did not show up at the ceremony, but instead sent a faked Indian woman named Sacheen Littlefeather who later turned out to be Maria Cruz, a less known Californian actress.

NOMINEES:
Sleuth: Michael Caine
Sleuth: Laurence Olivier
The Ruling Class: Peter O'Toole
Sounder: Paul Winfield

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Cabaret: Liza Minnelli

NOMINEES:
Lady Sings the Blues: Diana Ross
Travels with My Aunt: Maggie Smith
Sounder: Cicely Tyson
The Emigrants: Liv Ullmann

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Cabaret: Joel Grey

NOMINEES:
The Heartbreak Kid: Eddie Albert
The Godfather: James Caan
The Godfather: Robert Duvall
The Godfather: Al Pacino

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Butterflies Are Free: Eileen Heckart

NOMINEES:
The Heartbreak Kid: Jeannie Berlin
Pete 'n' Tillie: Geraldine Page
Fat City: Susan Tyrrell
The Poseidon Adventure: Shelley Winters

Best Director

WINNER:
Cabaret: Bob Fosse

NOMINEES:
Deliverance: John Boorman
The Godfather: Francis Ford Coppola
Sleuth: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Emigrants: Jan Troell

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER:
The Godfather: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Mario Puzo was not present at the awards ceremony. His daughter Dorothy Ann Puzo accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES
Cabaret: Jay Presson Allen
The Emigrants: Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
Pete 'n' Tillie: Julius J. Epstein
Sounder: Lonne Elder III

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced

WINNER:
The Candidate: Jeremy Larner

NOMINEES
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie: Luis Buñuel (screenplay/story), Jean-Claude Carrière (collaboration)
Lady Sings the Blues: Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne De Passe
Le souffle au coeur: Louis Malle
Young Winston: Carl Foreman

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
Cabaret: Geoffrey Unsworth

NOMINEES:
Butterflies Are Free: Charles Lang
The Poseidon Adventure: Harold E. Stine
1776: Harry Stradling Jr.
Travels with My Aunt: Douglas Slocombe

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER:
Cabaret: Rolf Zehetbauer, Hans Jürgen Kiebach, Herbert Strabel

NOMINEES:
Lady Sings the Blues: Carl Anderson, Reg Allen
The Poseidon Adventure: William J. Creber, Raphael Bretton
Travels with My Aunt: John Box, Gil Parrondo, Robert W. Laing
Young Winston: Donald M. Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark, William Hutchinson, Peter James

Best Costume Design

WINNER:
Travels with My Aunt: Anthony Powell

NOMINEES:
The Godfather: Anna Hill Johnstone
Lady Sings the Blues: Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch
The Poseidon Adventure: Paul Zastupnevich
Young Winston: Anthony Mendleson

Best Sound

WINNER:
Cabaret: Robert Knudson, David Hildyard

NOMINEES:
Butterflies Are Free: Arthur Piantadosi, Charles T. Knight
The Candidate: Richard Portman, Gene S. Cantamessa
The Godfather: Charles Grenzbach, Richard Portman, Christopher Newman
The Poseidon Adventure: Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
Cabaret: David Bretherton

NOMINEES:
Deliverance: Tom Priestley
The Godfather: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
The Hot Rock: Frank P. Keller, Fred W. Berger
The Poseidon Adventure: Harold F. Kress

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
The Poseidon Adventure: Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
For the song "The Morning After".

NOMINEES:
Ben: Walter Scharf (music), Don Black (lyrics)
For the song "Ben".
The Little Ark: Fred Karlin (music), Marsha Karlin (lyrics)
For the song "Come Follow, Follow Me".
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: Maurice Jarre (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman
For the song "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey".
The Stepmother: Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics)
For the song "Strange Are the Ways of Love".

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score


WINNER:
Limelight: Charles Chaplin, Ray Rasch, Larry Russell
The film was not released in Los Angeles until 1972. Under the Academy rules at the time being, this permitted it to be eligible despite of being 20 years old.

NOMINEES
Images: John Williams
Napoleon and Samantha: Buddy Baker
The Poseidon Adventure: John Williams
Sleuth: John Addison
The Godfather: Nino Rota
Withdrawn, ineligible: reused Fortunella score

Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation

WINNER:
Cabaret: Ralph Burns

NOMINEES:
Lady Sings the Blues: Gil Askey
Man of La Mancha: Laurence Rosenthal

Best Short Subject, Animated Films

WINNER:
A Christmas Carol: Richard Williams

NOMINEES:
Kama Sutra Rides Again: Bob Godfrey
Tup Tup: Nedeljko Dragic

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films

WINNER:
Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream: Richard Barclay

NOMINEES:
Frog Story: Ron Satlof, Raynold Gideon
Solo: David Adams

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
This Tiny World: Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden

NOMINEES:
Hundertwassers Regentag: Peter Schamoni
K-Z: Giorgio Treves
Selling Out: Tadeusz Jaworski
The Tide of Traffic: Humphrey Swingler

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
Marjoe: Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan

NOMINEES:
Bij de beesten af: Bert Haanstra
Malcolm X: Marvin Worth, Arnold Perl
Manson: Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick
The Silent Revolution: Eckehard Munck

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER:
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
France

NOMINEES:
A zori zdes tikhie
Soviet Union
Ani Ohev Otach Rosa
Israel
Mi querida señorita
Spain
The New Land
Sweden

Special Achievement Award

WINNER:
The Poseidon Adventure: L.B. Abbott, A.D. Flowers
For visual effects.

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Charles S. Boren
Leader for 38 years of the industry's enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of non-discrimination. With the respect and affection of all who work in films
Edward G. Robinson
Who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts, and a dedicated citizen ... in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves.
Posthumously. Robinson died 2 months before the ceremony, after the award was voted on. His widow Jane Robinson accepted the award on his behalf.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER:
Rosalind Russell

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:Joseph E. Bluth
For research and development in the field of electronic photography and transfer of video tape to motion picture film.
Edward H. Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries), Howard T. LaZare (Consolidated Film Industries), Edward Efron (IBM)
For the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.
(Panavision, Inc.)
For the development and engineering of the Panaflex motion picture camera.

Technical Achievement Award


WINNERS:
(Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corp., PSC Technology Inc., Acme Products Division)
For the Spectra Film Gate Photometer for motion picture printers.
(Carter Equipment Co., Inc., Ramtronics)
For the Ramtronics light-valve photometer for motion picture printers.
David Degenkolb (DeLuxe General Inc.), Harry Larson (DeLuxe General Inc.), Manfred Michelson (DeLuxe General Inc.), Fred Scobey (DeLuxe General Inc.)
For the development of a computerized motion picture printer and process control system.
Jiro Mukai (Canon, Inc.), Ryusho Hirose (Canon, Inc.), Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center)
For development of the Canon Macro Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.
Philip V. Palmquist (3M Company), Leonard L. Olson (3M Company), Frank P. Clark (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center)
For development of the Nextel simulated blood for motion picture color photography.
E.H. Geissler (Wil-Kin Inc.), G.M. Berggren (Wil-Kin Inc.)
For engineering of the Ultra-Vision Motion Picture Theater Projection System.

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