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Best Picture
 CABARET (Won 8 Awards) - ABC Pictures, Allied Artists. Produced by Cy Feuer.
DELIVERANCE - Warner Bros. Produced by John Boorman.
UTVANDRARNA (THE EMIGRANTS) - Svensk Filmindustri, Warner Bros. (Swedish). Produced by Bengt Forslund.
 THE GODFATHER - Ruddy, Paramount. Produced by Albert S. Ruddy
SOUNDER - Radnitz/Mattel, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Robert B. Radnitz
Actor
Marlon Brando in THE GODFATHER
Michael Caine in SLEUTH
Laurence Olivier in SLEUTH
Peter O'Toole in THE RULING CLASS
Paul Winfield in SOUNDER
Actress
Liza Minnelli in CABARET
Diana Ross in LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Maggie Smith in TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Cicely Tyson in SOUNDER
Liv Ullmann in UTVANDRARNA (THE EMIGRANTS)
Supporting Actor
Eddie Albert in THE HEARTBREAK KID
James Caan in THE GODFATHER
Robert Duvall in THE GODFATHER
Joel Grey in CABARET
Al Pacino in THE GODFATHER
Supporting Actress
Jeannie Berlin in THE HEARTBREAK KID
Eileen Heckart in BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Geraldine Page in PETE 'N' TILLIE
Susan Tyrrell in FAT CITY
Shelley Winters in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Director
John Boorman for DELIVERANCE
Francis Ford Coppola for THE GODFATHER
Bob Fosse for CABARET
Joseph L. Mankiewicz for SLEUTH
Jan Troell for UTVANDRARNA (THE EMIGRANTS)
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
Jeremy Larner - THE CANDIDATE
Luis Buñuel & Jean-Claude Carrière - LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOSIE (THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE)
Terence McCloy, Chris Clark & Suzanne DePasse - LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Louis Malle - MURMUR OF THE HEART
Carl Foreman - YOUNG WINSTON
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium
Jay Presson Allen - CABARET
Jan Troell & Bengt Forslund - UTVANDRARNA (THE EMIGRANTS)
Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola - THE GODFATHER
Julius J. Epstein - PETE 'N' TILLIE
Lonne Elder III - SOUNDER
Foreign Language Film
A ZORI ZDES TIKYIYE (THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET, U.S.S.R.)
LE CHARME DISCRET DE LA BOURGEOSIE (THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, France)
ANI OHEV OTACH ROSA (I LOVE YOU ROSA, Israel)
MI QUERIDA SEÑORITA (MY DEAREST SEÑORITA, Spain)
NYBYGGARNA (THE NEW LAND, Sweden)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Carl Anderson - Art Direction, Reg Allen - Set Decoration LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Rolf Zehetbauer & Jurgen Kiebach - Art Direction, Herbert Strabel - Set Decoration CABARET
John Box, Gil Parrondo & Robert W. Laing - Art Direction TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
William Creber - Art Direction, Raphael Bretton - Set Decoration THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Don Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark & William Hutchinson - Art Direction, Peter James - Set Decoration YOUNG WINSTON
Cinematography
Charles B. Lang - BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Geoffrey Unsworth - CABARET
Harold E. Stine - THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Harry Stradling, Jr. - 1776
Douglas Slocombe - TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Costume Design
Anna Hill Johnstone - THE GODFATHER
Bob Mackie, Ray Aghayan & Norma Koch - LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Paul Zastupnevich - THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Anthony Powell - TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Anthony Mendleson - YOUNG WINSTON
Documentary (Features)
Bert Haanstra - Producer APE AND SUPER APE
Marvin Worth & Arnold Perl - Producers MALCOLM X
Robert Hendrickson & Laurence Merrick - Producers MANSON
Howard Smith & Sarah Kernochan - Producers MARJOE
Eckehard Munck - Producer THE SILENT REVOLUTION
Documentary (Shorts)
Peter Schamoni - Producer HUNDERTWASSER'S RAINY DAY
Giorgio Treves - Producer KZ
Tadeusz Jaworski - Producer SELLING OUT
Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden & Martina Huguenot Van Der Linden - Producers DEZE KLEINE WERELD (THIS TINY WORLD)
Humphrey Swingler - Producer THE TIDE OF TRAFFIC
Film Editing
David Bretherton - CABARET
Tom Priestly - DELIVERANCE
William H. Reynolds & Peter Zinner - THE GODFATHER
Frank P. Keller & Fred W. Berger THE HOT ROCK
Harold F. Kress - THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Music: Original Dramatic Score
John Williams - IMAGES
Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch & Larry Russell - LIMELIGHT
Buddy Baker - NAPOLEON AND SAMANTHA
John Williams - THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
John Addison - SLEUTH
NOTE: THE GODFATHER score, composed by Nino Rota, was originally announced as one of the five official nominees, but was later declared ineligible and withdrawn when it was disclosed portions of the composition had previously been used in Rota's score for the 1958 Italian film, FORTUNELLA. Additionally, LIMELIGHT, made in 1952, was belatedly eligible for 1972 consideration because it had not previously been shown in a Los Angeles theater as Academy rules require.
Music: Scoring - Adaptation and Original Song Score
Ralph Burns - CABARET
Gil Askey - LADY SINGS THE BLUES
Laurence Rosenthal - MAN OF LA MANCHA
Music: Song - Original to the Picture
Walter Scharf - Music, Don Black - Lyric BEN "Ben"
Fred Karlin - Music, Marsha Karlin - Lyric THE LITTLE ARK "Come Follow, Follow Me"
Maurice Jarre - Music, Marilyn Bergman & Alan Bergman - Lyric THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey"
Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn - Music & Lyric THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE "The Morning After" 
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyric THE STEPMOTHER "Strange Are the Ways of Love"
Short Subjects (Animated Films)
Richard Williams - Producer A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Bob Godfrey - Producer KAMA SUTRA RIDES AGAIN
Nedeljko Dragic - Producer TUP TUP
Short Subjects (Live Action Films)
Ron Satlof & Ray Gideon - Producers FROG STORY
Richard Barclay - Producer NORMAN ROCKWELL'S WORLD... AN AMERICAN DREAM
David Adams - Producer SOLO
Sound
Arthur Piantadosi & Charles Knight - BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
Robert Knudson & David Hildyard - CABARET
Richard Portman & Gene Cantamessa - THE CANDIDATE
Bud Grenzbach, Richard Portman & Christopher Newman - THE GODFATHER
Theodore Soderberg & Herman Lewis - THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Special Visual Effects Award not presented annually after 1971.
Special Achievement Awards
L.B. Abbott & A.D. Flowers - Visual Effects THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1972.
Class II (Plaque):
 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 & Howard T. LaZare (Consolidated Film Industries), Edward Efron (IBM) - For the engineering of a computerized light valve monitoring system for motion picture printing.
Panavision Incorporated - For the development and engineering of the Panaflex motion picture camera.
Class III (Citation):
 David Degenkolb, Harry Larson, Manfred Michelson & Fred Scobey (DeLuxe General Inc.) - For the development of a computerized motion picture printer and process control system.
Carter Equipment Company Inc. & Ramtronics - For the RAMtronics light-valve photometer for motion picture printer.
Jiro Mukai & Ryusho Hirose (Canon Inc.), Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Pictures and Television Research Center) - For the development of the Canon Macro Zoom Lens for motion picture photography.
Philip V. Palmquist & 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 & Glenn M. Berggren (Wil-Kin Inc.) - For engineering of the Ultra-Vision Motion Picture Theater Projection System.
Photo Research, Division of Kollmorgen Corporation & PSC Technology Inc., Acme Products Division - For the Spectra Film Gate Photometer for motion picture printers.
Honorary and Other Awards
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. Winner presented a Statuette.
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. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1972.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Rosalind Russell
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FIRSTS
· Cabaret wins 8 Awards, but not Best Picture.
· Liza Minnelli becomes first person to win an Oscar® whose parents both received Academy Awards.
· The Emigrants and its sequel The New Land both receive Oscar® nominations.
· The entire cast of Sleuth is nominated for Acting Awards.
· Diana Ross nominated for film debut.
· Even though it was released in 1952, Limelight wins Original Dramatic Score because it didn't play in Los Angeles until 1972.
RULE CHANGES
"Special Visual Effects" becomes "Special Achievement Award" and is not necessarily given every year.
ROLE REVERSALS
· Before signing on Marlon Brando, Paramount was torn between such possibilities as Burt Lancaster, Orson Welles, George C. Scott and Edward G. Robinson, but Francis Ford Coppola knew whom he wanted: It was either Laurence Olivier or Brando. Olivier wasn't available.
· The hunt for The Godfather's sons amounted to finding four Scarlett O'Haras. Studio honchos wanted Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson or Dustin Hoffman as Don Corleone's #1 son, Michael. They scoffed at Coppola's suggestion of Al Pacino, who hadn't made much of a stir with his performance in Panic in Needle Park (1971).
· Brando balked at the prospect of Burt Reynolds playing Sonny Corleone. He got his way, and James Caan got the part.
· Kander & Ebb wrote the Broadway musical Cabaret as a showcase for their friend, Liza Minnelli. Producer Hal Prince thought Minnelli was too awkward and inexperienced for the show, and so, the musical version of Isherwood's Berlin Stories went on to become the biggest hit of the 1966-67 season starring Jill Haworth. By the time the movie was being considered, Minnelli had turned into a star. The role of Sally Bowles was hers.
· Unable to sign Albert Finney or Alan Bates, Sleuth director Joe Mankiewicz went with Michael Caine as the younger man.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: The Ruling Class, Frenzy
Director: Martin Ritt - Sounder
Foreign Film: Fellini's Roma (Italy), La Salmandre (Switzerland)
Song: "Money," "Superfly"
UNMENTIONABLES
· 1972 was a good year for Bob Fosse. His film Cabaret had redefined the movie musical, he was having his biggest Broadway hit ever with Pippin, and he was conquering television with the musical special "Liza with a 'Z'."
· The 25-year-old Minnelli, who would not receive a divorce from her first husband Peter Allen until 1974, was romantically involved with 19-year-old Desi Arnaz Jr.
· Pauline Kael wrote of Joel Grey's emcee in Cabaret, "[He] is every tantalizingly disgusting show-biz creep one has ever seen."
· Francis Ford Coppola, who had been hired by Paramount because he'd be "easy to control," wanted to turn The Godfather into an epic instead of what the studio envisioned -- a low-budget gangster thriller that exploited the best-seller success of Mario Puzo's book.
· Marlon Brando stuffed tissue paper in his cheeks, screen tested for Don Corleone, and was signed for $50,000 and a percentage of the profits. Not only did the actor refrain from tantrums, but he was having such a good time "mooning" people on the set that he worked an extra week without extra pay.
· The Godfather soon passed Gone With the Wind for the #1 position on the all-time box office list. The film brought fame to all its principals. But, Pacino -- who lived with his girlfriend Jill Clayburgh in a small apartment in Boston -- complained, "I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."
· Jeannie Berlin asserted that she did have to read for her part in The Heartbreak Kid, even though the director was her mother, Elaine May.
· After the nominations were announced, Academy officials were a little nervous waiting for Brando to confirm whether he'd be attending the Awards. At the last minute Brando finally R.S.V.P.'d: He would be unable to attend the ceremony but he was sending a proxy.
· Co-host Charlton Heston had a flat tire on the way to the Chandler, and a stunned Clint Eastwood was drafted to fill in for him until he arrived. "This was supposed to be Charlton Heston's part of the show, but for some reason he's not here," Eastwood mumbled. "So who did they get? A guy who hasn't said three lines in twelve movies." Within minutes, Heston arrived.
· Cabaret had won 7 Awards, including Best Director, before The Godfather began its sweep of Adapted Screenplay, Actor and Best Picture.
· Marlon Brando's "proxy" at the Awards was an actress in Native American garb who identified herself as "Sasheen Littlefeather." She read a statement from Brando that complained of the treatment of American Indians by the film industry. It was greeted with some rumblings and boos and claps from the audience.
· When Eastwood came back to give Best Picture, he first commented, "I don't know if I should present this Award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in John Ford westerns over the years."
· The show closed with John Wayne, who assembled all the winners and suggested they and the TV audience join in singing "You Oughta Be in Pictures." Wayne started the song -- off-key -- but no one knew the lyric. Hoping to avoid an embarrassing ending, show director Marty Pasetta switched to highlights from the show as the credits rolled. When he ran out of highlights, the TV audience was treated to the sight of John Wayne -- still making a game try at the song -- being dwarfed by Mickey Mouse standing behind him.
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