Academy Awards 1975

Event History

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Best Picture

WINNER:
The Godfather: Part II: Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
The movie became the first sequel to win the best picture award.

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: Robert Evans
The Conversation: Francis Ford Coppola
Lenny: Marvin Worth
The Towering Inferno: Irwin Allen

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Harry and Tonto: Art Carney

NOMINEES:
Murder on the Orient Express: Albert Finney
Lenny: Dustin Hoffman
Chinatown: Jack Nicholson
The Godfather: Part II: Al Pacino

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn was not present at the awards ceremony. Martin Scorsese accepted the award on her behalf.

NOMINEES:
Claudine: Diahann Carroll
Chinatown: Faye Dunaway
Lenny: Valerie Perrine
A Woman Under the Influence: Gena Rowlands

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Godfather: Part II: Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro was not present at the awards ceremony. Francis Ford Coppola accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES:
The Towering Inferno: Fred Astaire
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot: Jeff Bridges
The Godfather: Part II: Michael V. Gazzo
The Godfather: Part II: Lee Strasberg

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Murder on the Orient Express: Ingrid Bergman

NOMINEES:
Day for Night: Valentina Cortese
Blazing Saddles: Madeline Kahn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Diane Ladd
The Godfather: Part II: Talia Shire

Best Director

WINNER:
The Godfather: Part II: Francis Ford Coppola

NOMINEES:
A Woman Under the Influence: John Cassavetes
Lenny: Bob Fosse
Chinatown: Roman Polanski
Day for Night: François Truffaut

Best Writing, Original Screenplay


WINNER:
Chinatown: Robert Towne

NOMINEES:
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Robert Getchell
The Conversation: Francis Ford Coppola
Day for Night: François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
Harry and Tonto: Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld

Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material

WINNER:
The Godfather: Part II: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo

NOMINEES:
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: Mordecai Richler, Lionel Chetwynd
Lenny: Julian Barry
Murder on the Orient Express: Paul Dehn
Young Frankenstein: Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks

Best Cinematography

WINNER:
The Towering Inferno: Fred J. Koenekamp, Joseph F. Biroc

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: John A. Alonzo
Earthquake: Philip H. Lathrop
Lenny: Bruce Surtees
Murder on the Orient Express: Geoffrey Unsworth

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER:
The Godfather: Part II: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell, Ruby R. Levitt
Earthquake: Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Frank R. McKelvy
The Island at the Top of the World: Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Walter H. Tyler, Al Roelofs, Hal Gausman
The Towering Inferno: William J. Creber, Ward Preston, Raphael Bretton

Best Costume Design

WINNER:
The Great Gatsby: Theoni V. Aldredge

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: Anthea Sylbert
Daisy Miller: John Furniss
The Godfather: Part II: Theadora Van Runkle
Murder on the Orient Express: Tony Walton

Best Sound

WINNER:
Earthquake: Ronald Pierce, Melvin M. Metcalfe Sr.

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: Charles Grenzbach, Larry Jost
The Conversation: Walter Murch, Art Rochester
The Towering Inferno: Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis
Young Frankenstein: Richard Portman, Gene S. Cantamessa

Best Film Editing

WINNER:
The Towering Inferno: Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress

NOMINEES:
Blazing Saddles: John C. Howard, Danford B. Greene
Chinatown: Sam O'Steen
Earthquake: Dorothy Spencer
The Longest Yard: Michael Luciano

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER:
The Towering Inferno: Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
For the song "We May Never Love Like This Again"

NOMINEES:
Benji: Euel Box (music), Betty Box (lyrics)
For the song "Benji's Theme (I Feel Love)"
Blazing Saddles: John Morris (music), Mel Brooks (lyrics)
For the song "Blazing Saddles"
The Little Prince: Frederick Loewe (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics)
For the song "Little Prince"
Gold: Elmer Bernstein (music), Don Black (lyrics)
For the song "Wherever Love Takes Me"

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

WINNER
The Godfather: Part II: Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola
Nino Rota was not present at the awards ceremony.

NOMINEES:
Chinatown: Jerry Goldsmith
Murder on the Orient Express: Richard Rodney Bennett
Shanks: Alex North
The Towering Inferno: John Williams

Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation

WINNER:
The Great Gatsby: Nelson Riddle

NOMINEES:
The Little Prince: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Angela Morley, Douglas Gamley
Phantom of the Paradise: Paul Williams, George Aliceson Tipton

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER:
Closed Mondays: Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner

NOMINEES:
The Family That Dwelt Apart: Yvon Mallette, Robert Verrall
Hunger: Peter Foldes, René Jodoin
Voyage to Next: Faith Hubley, John Hubley
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too: Wolfgang Reitherman

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:
Les... borgnes sont rois: Paul Claudon, Edmond Séchan

NOMINEES:
Climb: Dewitt Jones
The Concert: Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin
Planet Ocean: George Casey
The Violin: Andrew Welsh, George Pastic

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
Don't: Robin Lehman

NOMINEES:
City Out of Wilderness: Francis Thompson
Exploratorium: Jon Boorstin
John Muir's High Sierra: Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster
Naked Yoga: Ronald S. Kass, Mervyn Lloyd

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
Hearts and Minds: Peter Davis, Bert Schneider

NOMINEES:
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman: Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art: Herbert Kline
Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad: Jacques Ehrlich, David Bergman, Haim Gouri
The Wild and the Brave: Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER:
Amarcord
Italy

NOMINEES:
Macskajáték
Hungary
Potop
Poland
Lacombe Lucien
France
La tregua
Argentina

Special Achievement Award

WINNER:
Earthquake: Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock
For visual effects.

Honorary Award

WINNERS:
Howard Hawks
A master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema.
Jean Renoir
A genius who, with grace, responsibility and enviable devotion through silent film, sound film, feature, documentary and television has won the world's admiration.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER:
Arthur Krim

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
Joseph D. Kelly (Glen Glenn Sound)
For the design of new audio control consoles which have advanced the state of the art of sound recording and rerecording for motion picture production.
(Burbank SSD)
For the design of new audio control consoles engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation.
(Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
For the design of a new audio control console engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation.
(Quad-Eight Sound Corp.)
For the engineering and construction of new audio control consoles designed by The Burbank Studios Sound Department and by the Samuel Goldwyn Studios Sound Department.
Waldon O. Watson, Richard J. Stumpf, Robert J. Leonard (Universal City SSD)
For the development and engineering of the Sensurround System for motion picture presentation.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
(Elemack Co., Rome, Italy)
For the design and development of their Spyder camera dolly.
Louis Ami (Universal City Studios)
For the design and construction of a reciprocating camera platform used when photographing special visual effects for motion pictures.

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