Best Picture Winner
The French Connection
Best Picture
Director: William Friedkin
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Two New York City cops attempt to intercept a large heroin shipment coming from France.
From the Worthy Podcast
Censorship of a Scene in the French Connection Video on the Drama
Perceptive audiences noticed stealth edits made to the 1971 classic The French Connection, which is owned by Disney and being streamed by the Criterion Channel. Someone had deleted a six-second exchange between the detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo, which contains an actual racial slur: Should we play the audio for context?
Doyle: “You dumb guinea.”
Russo: “How the hell did I know he had a knife?”
Doyle: “Never trust a nigger.”
Russo: “He coulda been white.”
All Categories (24)
Best Picture
The French Connection— Philip D'Antoni, Producer
Winner
A Clockwork Orange— Stanley Kubrick, Producer
Fiddler on the Roof— Norman Jewison, Producer
Nicholas and Alexandra— Sam Spiegel, Producer
The Last Picture Show— Stephen J. Friedman, Producer
Actor
George C. Scott— The Hospital {"Dr. Herbert Bock"}
Peter Finch— Sunday Bloody Sunday {"Dr. Daniel Hirsh"}
Topol— Fiddler on the Roof {"Tevye"}
Walter Matthau— Kotch {"Joseph P. Kotcher"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Jeff Bridges— The Last Picture Show {"Duane Jackson"}
Leonard Frey— Fiddler on the Roof {"Motel"}
Richard Jaeckel— Sometimes a Great Notion {"Joe Ben Stamper"}
Roy Scheider— The French Connection {"Buddy Russo"}
Actress
Glenda Jackson— Sunday Bloody Sunday {"Alex Greville"}
Janet Suzman— Nicholas and Alexandra {"Alexandra"}
Julie Christie— McCabe & Mrs. Miller {"Mrs. Constance Miller"}
Vanessa Redgrave— Mary, Queen of Scots {"Mary, Queen of Scots"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Ann-Margret— Carnal Knowledge {"Bobbie"}
Barbara Harris— Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me? {"Allison"}
Ellen Burstyn— The Last Picture Show {"Lois Farrow"}
Margaret Leighton— The Go-Between {"Mrs. Maudsley"}
Directing
A Clockwork Orange— Stanley Kubrick
Fiddler on the Roof— Norman Jewison
Sunday Bloody Sunday— John Schlesinger
The Last Picture Show— Peter Bogdanovich
Writing (Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium)
The French Connection— Ernest Tidyman
Winner
A Clockwork Orange— Stanley Kubrick
The Conformist— Bernardo Bertolucci
The Garden of the Finzi Continis— Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
The Last Picture Show— Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Writing (Story And Screenplay--Written Directly For The Screen)
The Hospital— Paddy Chayefsky
Winner
Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion— Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Klute— Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis
Summer of '42— Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday— Penelope Gilliatt
Cinematography
Fiddler on the Roof— Oswald Morris
Winner
Nicholas and Alexandra— Freddie Young
Summer of '42— Robert Surtees
The French Connection— Owen Roizman
The Last Picture Show— Robert Surtees
Music (Original Dramatic Score)
Summer of '42— Michel Legrand
Winner
Bedknobs and Broomsticks— Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
Fiddler on the Roof— Adaptation Score by John Williams
MUSIC (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
Mary, Queen of Scots— John Barry
Nicholas and Alexandra— Richard Rodney Bennett
Shaft— Isaac Hayes
Straw Dogs— Jerry Fielding
Tchaikovsky— Adaptation Score by Dimitri Tiomkin
The Boy Friend— Adaptation Score by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory— Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
Music (Original Song)
"Theme From Shaft" from Shaft— Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes
Winner
"All His Children" from Sometimes a Great Notion— Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
"Bless The Beasts & Children" from Bless the Beasts & Children— Music and Lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
"Life Is What You Make It" from Kotch— Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
"The Age Of Not Believing" from Bedknobs and Broomsticks— Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Art Direction
Nicholas and Alexandra— Art Direction: John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
Winner
Bedknobs and Broomsticks— Art Direction: John B. Mansbridge, Peter Ellenshaw; Set Decoration: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Fiddler on the Roof— Art Direction: Robert Boyle, Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
Mary, Queen of Scots— Art Direction: Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
The Andromeda Strain— Art Direction: Boris Leven, William Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby Levitt
Film Editing
The French Connection— Jerry Greenberg
Winner
A Clockwork Orange— Bill Butler
Kotch— Ralph E. Winters
Summer of '42— Folmar Blangsted
The Andromeda Strain— Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes
Sound
Fiddler on the Roof— Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard
Winner
Diamonds Are Forever— Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton
Kotch— Richard Portman, Jack Solomon
Mary, Queen of Scots— Bob Jones, John Aldred
The French Connection— Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman
Costume Design
Nicholas and Alexandra— Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo
Winner
Bedknobs and Broomsticks— Bill Thomas
Death in Venice— Piero Tosi
Mary, Queen of Scots— Margaret Furse
What's the Matter with Helen?— Morton Haack
Documentary (Feature)
The Hellstrom Chronicle— Walon Green, Producer
Winner
Alaska Wilderness Lake— Alan Landsburg, Producer
On Any Sunday— Bruce Brown, Producer
The RA Expeditions— Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers
The Sorrow and the Pity— Marcel Ophuls, Producer
Documentary (Short Subject)
Sentinels of Silence— Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Winner
Adventures in Perception— Han van Gelder, Producer
Art Is...— Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
Somebody Waiting— Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens, Producers
The Numbers Start with the River— Donald Wrye, Producer
Foreign Language Film
The Garden of the Finzi Continis— Italy
Winner
Dodes'ka-Den— Japan
Tchaikovsky— Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Emigrants— Sweden
The Policeman— Israel
Honorary Award
To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century.
Winner
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class II)
To JOHN N. WILKINSON of Optical Radiation Corporation for the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection. [Lighting]
Winner
Scientific Or Technical Award (Class III)
To THOMAS JEFFERSON HUTCHINSON, JAMES R. ROCHESTER and FENTON HAMILTON for the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for location lighting in motion picture production. [Lighting]
Winner
To CINEMA PRODUCTS COMPANY for a control motor to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras. [Camera]
To PHOTO RESEARCH, A DIVISION OF KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION, for the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter. [Photography]
To PRODUCERS SERVICE CORPORATION and CONSOLIDATED FILM INDUSTRIES; and to CINEMA RESEARCH CORPORATION and RESEARCH PRODUCTS, INC. for the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems. [Laboratory]
To ROBERT D. AUGUSTE and CINEMA PRODUCTS COMPANY for the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera. [Camera]
Short Subject (Animated)
The Crunch Bird— Ted Petok, Producer
Winner
Evolution— Michael Mills, Producer
The Selfish Giant— Peter Sander and Murray Shostak, Producers
Short Subject (Live Action)
Sentinels of Silence— Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers
Winner
Good Morning— Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald, Producers
The Rehearsal— Stephen F. Verona, Producer
Special Visual Effects
Bedknobs and Broomsticks— Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee
Winner
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth— Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken