The 48th Academy Awards (1975): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 9
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 5
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Funny Lady
  • Nashville
  • Jaws
  • The Man Who Skied Down Everest
  • Shampoo
  • The Sunshine Boys
  • The Hindenburg
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Jaws
  • Angel and Big Joe
  • Dersu Uzala
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • The End of the Game
  • Great
  • The Man Who Skied Down Everest
  • Nashville
  • Shampoo
  • The Sunshine Boys
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

  • Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
  • Dog Day Afternoon - Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
  • Jaws - Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
  • Nashville - Robert Altman
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas

DIRECTING

  • Amarcord - Federico Fellini
  • Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
  • Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet
  • Nashville - Robert Altman
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman

ACTOR

  • Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys
  • Jack Nicholson - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
  • Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth
  • James Whitmore - Give 'em Hell, Harry!

ACTRESS

  • Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H.
  • Louise Fletcher - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Glenda Jackson - Hedda
  • Carol Kane - Hester Street
  • Ann-Margret - Tommy

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
  • Brad Dourif - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust
  • Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
  • Jack Warden - Shampoo

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Ronee Blakley - Nashville
  • Lee Grant - Shampoo
  • Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
  • Lily Tomlin - Nashville
  • Brenda Vaccaro - Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Amarcord - Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
  • And Now My Love - Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • Dog Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
  • Lies My Father Told Me - Ted Allan
  • Shampoo - Robert Towne, Warren Beatty

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

  • Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
  • The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
  • Scent of a Woman - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi
  • The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon

ORIGINAL SONG

  • "How Lucky Can You Get" - Funny Lady - Music, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, John Kander
  • "I'm Easy" - Nashville - Music, Lyrics by Keith Carradine
  • "Now That We're in Love" - Whiffs - Music by George Barrie; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • "Richard's Window" - The Other Side of the Mountain - Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
  • "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" - Mahogany - Music by Michael Masser; Lyrics by Gerry Goffin

ORIGINAL SCORE

  • Birds Do It, Bees Do It - Gerald Fried
  • Bite the Bullet - Alex North
  • Jaws - John Williams
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Jack Nitzsche
  • The Wind and the Lion - Jerry Goldsmith

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

  • Barry Lyndon - Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
  • Funny Lady - Adaptation Score by Peter Matz
  • Tommy - Adaptation Score by Peter Townshend

FILM EDITING

  • Dog Day Afternoon - Dede Allen
  • Jaws - Verna Fields
  • The Man Who Would Be King - Russell Lloyd
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
  • Three Days of the Condor - Fredric Steinkamp, Don Guidice

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Barry Lyndon - John Alcott
  • The Day of the Locust - Conrad Hall
  • Funny Lady - James Wong Howe
  • The Hindenburg - Robert Surtees
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Haskell Wexler, Bill Butler

ART DIRECTION

  • Barry Lyndon - Art Direction: Ken Adam, Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
  • The Hindenburg - Art Direction: Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy
  • The Man Who Would Be King - Art Direction: Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis; Set Decoration: Peter James
  • Shampoo - Art Direction: Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell; Set Decoration: George Gaines
  • The Sunshine Boys - Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March

COSTUME DESIGN

  • Barry Lyndon - Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero
  • The Four Musketeers - Yvonne Blake, Ron Talsky
  • Funny Lady - Ray Aghayan, Bob Mackie
  • The Magic Flute - Henny Noremark, Karin Erskine
  • The Man Who Would Be King - Edith Head

SOUND

  • Bite the Bullet - Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler, Al Overton Jr.
  • Funny Lady - Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell, Jack Solomon
  • The Hindenburg - Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger Jr., John Mack, Don K. Sharpless
  • Jaws - Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, John Carter
  • The Wind and the Lion - Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey, Roy Charman

SOUND EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

  • The Hindenburg - Peter Berkos

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

  • The Hindenburg - Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • Dersu Uzala - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Land of Promise - Poland
  • Letters from Marusia - Mexico
  • Sandakan No. 8 - Japan
  • Scent of a Woman - Italy

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • The California Reich - Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow
  • Fighting for Our Lives - Glen Pearcy
  • The Incredible Machine - Irwin Rosten
  • The Man Who Skied Down Everest - F. R. Crawley, James Hager, Dale Hartleben
  • The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir - Shirley MacLaine

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • Arthur and Lillie - Jon Else, Steven Kovacs, Kristine Samuelson
  • The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman
  • Millions of Years Ahead of Man - Manfred Baier
  • Probes in Space - George V. Casey
  • Whistling Smith - Barrie Howells, Michael Scott

SHORT FILM (Animated)

  • Great - Bob Godfrey
  • Kick Me - Robert Swarthe
  • Monsieur Pointu - Ren Jodoin, Bernard Longpr, Andr Leduc
  • Sisyphus - Marcell Jankovics

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

  • Angel and Big Joe - Bert Salzman
  • Conquest of Light - Louis Marcus
  • Dawn Flight - Lawrence M. Lansburgh, Brian Lansburgh
  • A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo - Barry Spinello
  • Doubletalk - Alan Beattie

HONORARY AWARDS

  • To Mary Pickford in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

  • Mervyn LeRoy

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Dr. Jules C. Stein

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

  • To WILLIAM F. MINER of Universal City Studios, Inc. and the WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION for the development and engineering of a solid-state, 500 kilowatt, direct-current static rectifier for motion picture lighting. [Lighting]
  • To CHADWELL O'CONNOR of the O'Connor Engineering Laboratories for the concept and engineering of a fluid-damped camera-head for motion picture photography. [Stage Operations]

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

  • To BELL & HOWELL for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines. [Laboratory]
  • To CARTER EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC. and RAMTRONICS for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines. [Laboratory]
  • To DAVID J. DEGENKOLB and FRED SCOBEY of Deluxe General Incorporated and JOHN C. DOLAN and RICHARD DUBOIS of the Akwaklame Company for the development of a technique for silver recovery from photographic wash-waters by ion exchange. [Laboratory]
  • To FREDRIK SCHLYTER for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines. [Laboratory]
  • To HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPANY for the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines. [Laboratory]
  • To JOSEPH WESTHEIMER for the development of a device to obtain shadowed titles on motion picture films. [Special Photographic]
  • To LAWRENCE W. BUTLER and ROGER BANKS for the concept of applying low inertia and stepping electric motors to film transport systems and optical printers for motion picture production. [Special Photographic]