The 47th Academy Awards (1974): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
11 11 8 6 6 4 3 3 3 3	Chinatown The Godfather Part II The Towering Inferno Lenny Murder on the Orient Express Earthquake Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Blazing Saddles The Conversation Day for Night	6 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Godfather Part II The Towering Inferno The Great Gatsby Amarcord Chinatown Closed Mondays Don't Earthquake Harry and Tonto Hearts and Minds Murder on the Orient Express One-Eyed Men Are Kings
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Chinatown - Robert Evans
• The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos
• The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
• Lenny - Marvin Worth
• The Towering Inferno - Irwin Allen

DIRECTING

• Chinatown - Roman Polanski
• Day for Night - Francois Truffaut
• The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola
• Lenny - Bob Fosse
• A Woman under the Influence - John Cassavetes

ACTOR

• Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
• Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express
• Dustin Hoffman - Lenny
• Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
• Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II

ACTRESS

• Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Diahann Carroll - Claudine
• Faye Dunaway - Chinatown
• Valerie Perrine - Lenny
• Gena Rowlands - A Woman under the Influence

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno
• Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II
• Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II
• Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
• Valentina Cortese - Day for Night
• Madeline Kahn - Blazing Saddles
• Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Talia Shire - The Godfather Part II

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Screenplay by Mordecai Richler; Adaptation by Lionel Chetwynd
• The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
• Lenny - Julian Barry
• Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn
• Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks

SONG

• "Benji's Theme (I Feel Love)" - Benji - Music by Euel Box; Lyrics by Betty Box
• "Blazing Saddles" - Blazing Saddles - Music by John Morris; Lyrics by Mel Brooks
• "Little Prince" - The Little Prince - Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
• "We May Never Love Like This Again" - The Towering Inferno - Music, Lyrics by Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
• "Wherever Love Takes Me" - Gold - Music by Elmer Bernstein; Lyrics by Don Black

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE

• Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith
• The Godfather Part II - Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola
• Murder on the Orient Express - Richard Rodney Bennett
• Shanks - Alex North
• The Towering Inferno - John Williams

SCORING (Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation)

• The Great Gatsby - Adaptation Score by Nelson Riddle
• The Little Prince - Song Score by Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley, Douglas Gamley
• Phantom of the Paradise - Song Score by Paul Williams; Adaptation Score by Paul Williams, George Aliceson Tipton

FILM EDITING

• Blazing Saddles - John C. Howard, Danford Greene
• Chinatown - Sam O'Steen
• Earthquake - Dorothy Spencer
• The Longest Yard - Michael Luciano
• The Towering Inferno - Harold F. Kress, Carl Kress

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Chinatown - John A. Alonzo
• Earthquake - Philip Lathrop
• Lenny - Bruce Surtees
• Murder on the Orient Express - Geoffrey Unsworth
• The Towering Inferno - Fred Koenekamp, Joseph Biroc

ART DIRECTION

• Chinatown - Art Direction: Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell; Set Decoration: Ruby Levitt
• Earthquake - Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy
• The Godfather Part II - Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson
• The Island at the Top of the World - Art Direction: Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Walter Tyler, Al Roelofs; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman
• The Towering Inferno - Art Direction: William Creber, Ward Preston; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton

COSTUME DESIGN

• Chinatown - Anthea Sylbert
• Daisy Miller - John Furness
• The Godfather Part II - Theadora Van Runkle
• The Great Gatsby - Theoni V. Aldredge
• Murder on the Orient Express - Tony Walton

SOUND

• Chinatown - Bud Grenzbach, Larry Jost
• The Conversation - Walter Murch, Arthur Rochester
• Earthquake - Ronald Pierce, Melvin Metcalfe Sr.
• The Towering Inferno - Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis
• Young Frankenstein - Richard Portman, Gene Cantamessa

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

• Earthquake - Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Amarcord - Italy
• Cats' Play - Hungary
• The Deluge - Poland
• Lacombe, Lucien - France
• The Truce - Argentina

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman - Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow
• The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art - Herbert Kline
• The 81st Blow - Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman, Haim Gouri
• Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis, Bert Schneider
• The Wild and the Brave - Natalie R. Jones, Eugene S. Jones

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• City out of Wilderness - Francis Thompson
• Don't - Robin Lehman
• Exploratorium - Jon Boorstin
• John Muir's High Sierra - Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster
• Naked Yoga - Ronald S. Kass, Mervyn Lloyd

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• Closed Mondays - Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner
• The Family That Dwelt Apart - Yvon Mallette, Robert Verrall
• Hunger - Peter Foldes, Ren Jodoin
• Voyage to Next - Faith Hubley, John Hubley
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too - Wolfgang Reitherman

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• Climb - Dewitt Jones
• The Concert - Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin
• One-Eyed Men Are Kings - Paul Claudon, Edmond Sechan
• Planet Ocean - George V. Casey
• The Violin - Andrew Welsh, George Pastic

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Howard Hawks - A master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema.
• To 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

• Arthur B. Krim

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To JOSEPH D. KELLY of 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. [Sound]
• To QUAD-EIGHT SOUND CORPORATION 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. [Sound]
• To SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design of a new audio control console engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation. [Sound]
• To THE BURBANK STUDIOS SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design of new audio control consoles engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation. [Sound]
• To WALDON O. WATSON, RICHARD J. STUMPF, ROBERT J. LEONARD and the UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS SOUND DEPARTMENT for the development and engineering of the Sensurround System for motion picture presentation. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To THE ELEMACK COMPANY, ROME, ITALY, for the design and development of their Spyder camera dolly. [Camera Cranes]
• To LOUIS AMI of Universal City Studios for the design and construction of a reciprocating camera platform used when photographing special visual effects for motion pictures. [Stage Operations]