47th Academy Awards

The 47th Academy Awards were presented April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra. This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights, which they still hold to this day.

Between the two of them, father and son Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola won no less than four awards this one night. The event occurred while a massive thunderstorm raged outside. The success of The Godfather Part II was notable; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor (six) and duplicated its feat of three Best Supporting Actor nominations.

Prolific and flamboyant film producer Robert Evans received his only Academy Award nomination as the producer of Chinatown.

Winners & Nominees

Winners are highlighted in bold.^[1][2]

Best Picture

The Godfather Part II

• Chinatown
• The Conversation
• Lenny
• The Towering Inferno

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Harry and Tonto - Art Carney

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Ellen Burstyn

• Chinatown - Faye Dunaway
• Claudine - Diahann Carroll
• Lenny - Valerie Perrine
• A Woman Under the Influence - Gena Rowlands

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Godfather Part II - Robert De Niro

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Murder on the Orient Express - Ingrid Bergman

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Diane Ladd
• Blazing Saddles - Madeline Kahn
• Day for Night - Valentina Cortese
• The Godfather Part II - Talia Shire

Best Director

The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola

• Chinatown - Roman Polanski
• Day for Night - François Truffaut
• Lenny - Bob Fosse
• A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes

Best Original Screenplay

Chinatown - Robert Towne

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo

• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd
• Lenny - Julian Barry
• Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn
• Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks

Best Cinematography

The Towering Inferno - Joseph F. Boric and Fred J. Koenekamp

• Chinatown - John A. Alonzo
• Earthquake - Philip Lathrop
• Lenny - Bruce Surtees
• Murder on the Orient Express - Geoffrey Unsworth

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

The Godfather Part II - Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham and George R. Nelson

Best Costume Design

The Great Gatsby - Theoni V. Aldredge

• Chinatown - Anthea Sylbert
• Daisy Miller - John Furniss
• The Godfather Part II - Theadora Van Runkle
• Murder on the Orient Express - Tony Walton

Best Sound

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

Best Film Editing

The Towering Inferno - Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress

Best Music, Original Song

The Towering Inferno - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the song We May Never Love Like This Again

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

The Godfather Part II - Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola

Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation

The Great Gatsby - Nelson Riddle

Best Short Subject, Animated Films

Closed Mondays

• Hunger - Peter Foldes, National Film Board of Canada
• The Family That Dwelt Apart - Yvon Malette, National Film Board of Canada

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films

One-Eyed Men Are Kings

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Don't

Best Documentary, Features

Hearts and Minds

Best Foreign Language Film

Amarcord - Italy

Presenters

• Lauren Bacall (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Warren Beatty (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Ingrid Bergman (Presenter: Honorary Award to Jean Renoir)
• Susan Blakely and O.J. Simpson (Presenters: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Joseph Bottoms and Deborah Raffin (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Macdonald Carey and Jennifer O'Neill (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Diahann Carroll and Johnny Green (Presenters: Music Awards)
• Sammy Davis Jr. (Presenter: Musical Tribute to Fred Astaire)
• Peter Falk and Katharine Ross (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
• Susan George and Jack Valenti (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Goldie Hawn and Robert Wise (Presenters: Best Director)
• Bob Hope (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
• Lauren Hutton and Danny Thomas (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Glenda Jackson (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Gene Kelly (Presenter: Best Original Song)
• Jack Lemmon (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Roddy McDowall and Brenda Vaccaro (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
• James Michener (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal (Presenters: Best Supporting Actor)
• Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
• Jon Voight and Raquel Welch (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
• John Wayne (Presenter: Honorary Award to Howard Hawks)

Performers

• Aretha Franklin ("Wherever Love Takes Me" from Gold)
• Jack Jones ("Little Prince" from The Little Prince)
• Frankie Laine ("Blazing Saddles" from Blazing Saddles)
• Frankie Laine, Jack Jones, and Aretha Franklin ("We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno and "Benji's Theme (I Feel Love)" from Benji)

See also

• Academy Awards
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Academy Honorary Award
• 47th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 32nd Golden Globe Awards
• 1974 in film
• 17th Grammy Awards
• 26th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 27th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 28th British Academy Film Awards
• 29th Tony Awards
• Governors Awards

References

1. ^ The Official Academy Awards® Database
2. ^ "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/47th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-02.