44th Academy Awards

{{Infobox film awards

| number = 44

| award = Academy Awards

| image = 44th Academy Awards.jpg

| date = April 10, 1972

| site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,
Los Angeles, California

| host = Helen Hayes,
Alan King,
Sammy Davis Jr.
and Jack Lemmon

| producer = Howard W. Koch

| director = Marty Pasetta

| best_picture = The French Connection

| most_wins = The French Connection (5)

| most_nominations = Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection, and The Last Picture Show (8)

| network = NBC

| duration =

| last = 43rd

| next = 45th

}}

The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon. One of the highlights of the evening was one of her last public appearances the of Betty Grable, who died the following year. She appeared alongside one of her leading men from the 1940s, singer Dick Haymes, to present the musical scoring awards. This was the first time in Awards history that the nominees were shown in superimposed pictures while being announced. Around seven million viewers watched the ceremony.

{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |last2=Wallace |first2=Irving |date=1975 |title=The People's Almanac |url=https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall/page/846/mode/2up |location=Garden City, New York |publisher=Doubleday & Company, Inc. |page=846 |isbn=0-385-04060-1}}

Winners and nominees

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| caption1 = William Friedkin, Best Director winner

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| caption2 = Gene Hackman, Best Actor winner

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| caption3 = Jane Fonda, Best Actress winner

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| caption4 = Ben Johnson, Best Supporting Actor winner

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| caption5 = Cloris Leachman, Best Supporting Actress winner

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| caption6 = Paddy Chayefsky, Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published winner

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| caption7 = Ernest Tidyman, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium winner

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| caption8 = Vittorio De Sica, Best Foreign Language Film winner

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| caption9 = Yvonne Blake, Best Costume Design co-winner

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| caption10 = Michel Legrand, Best Original Dramatic Score winner

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| caption11 = John Williams, Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score winner

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| caption12 = Isaac Hayes, Best Song Original for the Picture winner

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| caption13 = John Box, Best Art Direction co-winner

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= Awards =

Nominations announced on February 22, 1972. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger ({{double dagger}}).{{cite web|title=The Official Academy Awards Database|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/}} Select "1971" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1972 |title=The 44th Academy Awards (1972) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-12-06 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111072026/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1972 |archive-date=2014-11-11 }}

class=wikitable
style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Picture ! style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" \| Best Directing
valign="top" \| The French Connection – Philip D'Antoni, producer{{double dagger}} A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick, producer Fiddler on the Roof – Norman Jewison, producer The Last Picture Show – Stephen J. Friedman, producer Nicholas and Alexandra – Sam Spiegel, producer \| valign="top" \| William Friedkin – The French Connection{{double dagger}} Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress
valign="top" \| *Gene Hackman – The French Connection* as Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle*{{double dagger}} Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday* as Dr. Daniel Hirsch Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher George C. Scott – The Hospital as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye \| valign="top" \| *Jane Fonda – Klute* as Bree Daniels*{{double dagger}} Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller* as Constance Miller Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Empress Alexandra
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actor in a Supporting Role ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Actress in a Supporting Role
valign="top" \| *Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show* as Sam the Lion*{{double dagger}} Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show* as Duane Jackson Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil Richard Jaeckel – Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper Roy Scheider – The French Connection as Det. Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo \| valign="top" \| *Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show* as Ruth Popper*{{double dagger}} Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge* as Bobbie Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow Barbara Harris – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Story and Screenplay -- Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Writing (Screenplay -- Based on Material from Another Medium)
valign="top" \| The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky{{double dagger}} Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro Klute – Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis Summer of '42 – Herman Raucher Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt \| valign="top" \| The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman based on the book by Robin Moore{{double dagger}} A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci based on the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pirro based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Foreign Language Film ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Feature)
valign="top" \| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy) in Italian – Vittorio De Sica{{double dagger}} Dodes'ka-den (Japan) in Japanese – Akira Kurosawa The Emigrants (Sweden) in Swedish – Jan Troell The Policeman (Israel) in Hebrew – Ephraim Kishon Tchaikovsky (USSR) in Russian – Igor Talankin \| valign="top" \| The Hellstrom Chronicle – Walon Green{{double dagger}} Alaska Wilderness Lake – Alan Landsburg On Any Sunday – Bruce Brown Ra – Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophüls
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Documentary (Short Subject) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Live Action)
valign="top" \| Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango{{double dagger}} Adventures in Perception – Han van Gelder Art Is... – Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr. The Numbers Start with the River – Donald Wrye Somebody Waiting – Sherwood Omens, Hal Riney and Dick Snider \| valign="top" \| Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango{{double dagger}} Good Morning – Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald The Rehearsal – Stephen F. Verona
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Short Subject (Animated) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Original Dramatic Score)
valign="top" \| The Crunch Bird – Ted Petok{{double dagger}} Evolution – Michael Mills The Selfish Giant – Peter Sander and Murray Shostak \| valign="top" \| Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand{{double dagger}} Mary, Queen of Scots – John Barry Nicholas and Alexandra – Richard Rodney Bennett Shaft – Isaac Hayes Straw Dogs – Jerry Fielding
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Music (Song -- Original for the Picture)
valign="top" \| Fiddler on the Roof – Adapted by John Williams{{double dagger}} Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Adapted by Irwin Kostal; Song Score by The Sherman Brothers: Robert B. and Richard M. The Boy Friend – Adapted by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell Tchaikovsky – Adapted by Dimitri Tiomkin Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – Adapted by Walter Scharf; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley \| valign="top" \| *"Theme from Shaft" from Shaft* – Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes*{{double dagger}} "The Age of Not Believing" from Bedknobs and Broomsticks* – Music and Lyrics by Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman "All His Children" from Sometimes a Great Notion – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman "Bless the Beasts and Children" from Bless the Beasts and Children – Music and Lyrics by Perry Botkin Jr. and Barry De Vorzon "Life Is What You Make It" from Kotch – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Costume Design ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Sound
valign="top" \| Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo{{double dagger}} Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Bill Thomas Death in Venice – Piero Tosi Mary, Queen of Scots – Margaret Furse What's the Matter with Helen? – Morton Haack \| valign="top" \| Fiddler on the Roof – David Hildyard and Gordon K. McCallum{{double dagger}} Diamonds Are Forever – Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton The French Connection – Christopher Newman and Theodore Soderberg Kotch – Richard Portman and Jack Solomon Mary, Queen of Scots – John Aldred and Bob Jones
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Art Direction ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Cinematography
valign="top" \| Nicholas and Alexandra – Art Direction: Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon{{double dagger}} The Andromeda Strain – Art Direction: Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby R. Levitt Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Art Direction: Peter Ellenshaw and John B. Mansbridge; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman and Emile Kuri Fiddler on the Roof – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle and Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont Mary, Queen of Scots – Art Direction: Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt \| valign="top" \| Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris{{double dagger}} The French Connection – Owen Roizman The Last Picture Show – Robert Surtees Nicholas and Alexandra – Freddie Young Summer of '42 – Robert Surtees
style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Film Editing ! style="background:#F9EFAA" \| Best Special Visual Effects
valign="top" \| The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg{{double dagger}} The Andromeda Strain – Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination) and John W. Holmes A Clockwork Orange – Bill Butler Kotch – Ralph E. Winters Summer of '42 – Folmar Blangsted \| valign="top" \| Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett and Alan Maley{{double dagger}} When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken

class=wikitable

style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" | Best Picture

! style="background:#F9EFAA; width:50%" | Best Directing

valign="top" |

The French Connection – Philip D'Antoni, producer{{double dagger}}
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick, producer
Fiddler on the Roof – Norman Jewison, producer
The Last Picture Show – Stephen J. Friedman, producer
Nicholas and Alexandra – Sam Spiegel, producer

| valign="top" |

William Friedkin – The French Connection{{double dagger}}
Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show
John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actor

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actress

valign="top" |

Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle{{double dagger}}
Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Dr. Daniel Hirsch
Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher
George C. Scott – The Hospital as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock
Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye

| valign="top" |

Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels{{double dagger}}
Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller as Constance Miller
Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville
Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots
Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Empress Alexandra

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actor in a Supporting Role

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Actress in a Supporting Role

valign="top" |

Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion{{double dagger}}
Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson
Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil
Richard Jaeckel – Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper
Roy Scheider – The French Connection as Det. Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo

| valign="top" |

Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper{{double dagger}}
Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie
Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow
Barbara Harris – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore
Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Writing (Story and Screenplay -- Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Writing (Screenplay -- Based on Material from Another Medium)

valign="top" |

The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky{{double dagger}}
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
Klute – Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
Summer of '42 – Herman Raucher
Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt

| valign="top" |

The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman based on the book by Robin Moore{{double dagger}}
A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess
The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci based on the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pirro based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani
The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry based on the novel by Larry McMurtry

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Foreign Language Film

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Documentary (Feature)

valign="top" |

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy) in Italian – Vittorio De Sica{{double dagger}}
Dodes'ka-den (Japan) in Japanese – Akira Kurosawa
The Emigrants (Sweden) in Swedish – Jan Troell
The Policeman (Israel) in Hebrew – Ephraim Kishon
Tchaikovsky (USSR) in Russian – Igor Talankin

| valign="top" |

The Hellstrom Chronicle – Walon Green{{double dagger}}
Alaska Wilderness Lake – Alan Landsburg
On Any Sunday – Bruce Brown
Ra – Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl
The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophüls

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Documentary (Short Subject)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Short Subject (Live Action)

valign="top" |

Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango{{double dagger}}
Adventures in Perception – Han van Gelder
Art Is... – Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
The Numbers Start with the River – Donald Wrye
Somebody Waiting – Sherwood Omens, Hal Riney and Dick Snider

| valign="top" |

Sentinels of Silence – Robert Amram and Manuel Arango{{double dagger}}
Good Morning – Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald
The Rehearsal – Stephen F. Verona

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Short Subject (Animated)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Original Dramatic Score)

valign="top" |

The Crunch Bird – Ted Petok{{double dagger}}
Evolution – Michael Mills
The Selfish Giant – Peter Sander and Murray Shostak

| valign="top" |

Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand{{double dagger}}
Mary, Queen of Scots – John Barry
Nicholas and Alexandra – Richard Rodney Bennett
Shaft – Isaac Hayes
Straw Dogs – Jerry Fielding

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Music (Song -- Original for the Picture)

valign="top" |

Fiddler on the Roof – Adapted by John Williams{{double dagger}}
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Adapted by Irwin Kostal; Song Score by The Sherman Brothers: Robert B. and Richard M.
The Boy Friend – Adapted by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
Tchaikovsky – Adapted by Dimitri Tiomkin
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – Adapted by Walter Scharf; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

| valign="top" |

"Theme from Shaft" from Shaft – Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes{{double dagger}}
"The Age of Not Believing" from Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Music and Lyrics by Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman
"All His Children" from Sometimes a Great Notion – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
"Bless the Beasts and Children" from Bless the Beasts and Children – Music and Lyrics by Perry Botkin Jr. and Barry De Vorzon
"Life Is What You Make It" from Kotch – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Costume Design

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Sound

valign="top" |

Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo{{double dagger}}
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Bill Thomas
Death in Venice – Piero Tosi
Mary, Queen of Scots – Margaret Furse
What's the Matter with Helen? – Morton Haack

| valign="top" |

Fiddler on the Roof – David Hildyard and Gordon K. McCallum{{double dagger}}
Diamonds Are Forever – Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton
The French Connection – Christopher Newman and Theodore Soderberg
Kotch – Richard Portman and Jack Solomon
Mary, Queen of Scots – John Aldred and Bob Jones

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Art Direction

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Cinematography

valign="top" |

Nicholas and Alexandra – Art Direction: Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon{{double dagger}}
The Andromeda Strain – Art Direction: Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby R. Levitt
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Art Direction: Peter Ellenshaw and John B. Mansbridge; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman and Emile Kuri
Fiddler on the Roof – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle and Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
Mary, Queen of Scots – Art Direction: Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt

| valign="top" |

Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris{{double dagger}}
The French Connection – Owen Roizman
The Last Picture Show – Robert Surtees
Nicholas and Alexandra – Freddie Young
Summer of '42 – Robert Surtees

style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Film Editing

! style="background:#F9EFAA" | Best Special Visual Effects

valign="top" |

The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg{{double dagger}}
The Andromeda Strain – Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination) and John W. Holmes
A Clockwork Orange – Bill Butler
Kotch – Ralph E. Winters
Summer of '42 – Folmar Blangsted

| valign="top" |

Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett and Alan Maley{{double dagger}}
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken

= Honorary Award =

{{stack|File:Chaplin oscar.JPG (right) receiving his Honorary Academy Award from Jack Lemmon (left).]]}}

To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century.

Chaplin, who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for twenty years, went back to the United States to re-market his older films and to receive this award. When introduced to the audience, Chaplin received a twelve-minute standing ovation, the longest in Academy Awards history.

=Films with multiple wins and nominations=

scope="col" style="width:55px;" \|Nominations ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" \|Film
class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" \|+ Films that received multiple nominations
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" \|8 \| Fiddler on the Roof
The French Connection
The Last Picture Show
style="text-align:center" \|6 \| Nicholas and Alexandra
rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" \|5 \| Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Mary, Queen of Scots
rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" \|4 \| A Clockwork Orange
Kotch
Summer of '42
Sunday Bloody Sunday
rowspan="8" style="text-align:center" \|2 \| The Andromeda Strain
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Hospital
Klute
Sentinels of Silence
Shaft
Sometimes a Great Notion
Tchaikovsky

class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" \|+ Films that received multiple awards
scope="col" style="width:55px;" \|Awards ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" \|Film
style="text-align:center" \|5 \| The French Connection
style="text-align:center" \|3 \| Fiddler on the Roof
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" \|2 \| The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Sentinels of Silence

class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"

|+ Films that received multiple awards

scope="col" style="width:55px;" |Awards

! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" |Film

style="text-align:center" |5

| The French Connection

style="text-align:center" |3

| Fiddler on the Roof

rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" |2

| The Last Picture Show

Nicholas and Alexandra

Sentinels of Silence

Presenters and performers

=Presenters (in order of appearance)=

Name(s)	Role
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{{sortname\|Hank\|Simms	nolink=0}}	Announcer for the 44th Academy Awards
{{sortname\|Daniel\|Taradash}} (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
{{sortname	Ann-Margret}} John Gavin	Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
{{sortname\|Karen\|Black}} Richard Chamberlain	Presenters of the award for Best Special Visual Effects
{{sortname\|Timothy\|Bottoms}} Jennifer O'Neill	Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction
{{sortname\|Red\|Buttons}} Jill St. John	Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
{{sortname\|James\|Caan}} Joey Heatherton	Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject
{{sortname\|Frank\|Capra}} Natalie Wood	Presenters of the award for Best Director
{{sortname\|Leslie\|Caron}} Jack Valenti	Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
{{sortname\|Sandy\|Duncan}} Michael York	Presenters of the award for Best Sound
{{sortname\|Betty\|Grable}} Dick Haymes	Presenters of the award for Best Original Score (Dramatic) and Best Score (Adaptation and Original Song)
{{sortname\|Joel\|Grey}}	Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
{{sortname\|Tennessee\|Williams}}	Presenter of the awards for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and Best Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published
{{sortname\|Gene\|Hackman}} Raquel Welch	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
{{sortname\|Richard\|Harris}} Sally Kellerman	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
{{sortname\|Cloris\|Leachman}} Richard Roundtree	Presenters of the award for Best Animated Short Subject and Live Action Short Subject
{{sortname\|Walter\|Matthau}}	Presenter of the award for Best Actress
{{sortname\|Liza\|Minnelli}}	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
{{sortname\|Joe\|Namath}} Cybill Shepherd	Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
{{sortname\|Jack\|Nicholson}}	Presenter of the award for Best Picture
{{sortname\|Daniel\|Taradash}}	Presenter of the Academy Honorary Award to Charlie Chaplin

=Performers (in order of appearance)=

Name(s)	Role	Performed
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{{sortname\|Henry\|Mancini}}	Musical arranger	Orchestral
{{sortname\|Joel\|Grey}}	Performer	"Lights, Camera, Action!"
{{sortname\|The\|Carpenters}}	Performer	"Bless the Beasts and Children"
{{sortname\|Isaac\|Hayes}}	Performer	"Theme from Shaft"
{{sortname\|Johnny\|Mathis}}	Performer	"Life Is What You Make It"
{{sortname\|Charley\|Pride}}	Performer	"All His Children"
{{sortname\|Debbie\|Reynolds}}	Performer	"The Age of Not Believing"
{{sortname	Academy Awards Chorus\|nolink=0}}	Performers	"Smile"