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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
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
Art Carney – Harry and Tonto Albert Finney – Murder on the Orient Express Dustin Hoffman – Lenny Jack Nicholson – Chinatown Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II
Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Diahann Carroll – Claudine Faye Dunaway – Chinatown Valerie Perrine – Lenny Gena Rowlands – A Woman under the Influence
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
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
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
“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 Hirschh...
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
Chinatown – John A. Alonzo Earthquake – Philip Lathrop Lenny – Bruce Surtees Murder on the Orient Express – Geoffrey Unsworth The Towering Inferno– Fred Koenekamp, Joseph Biroc
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann. 2023: German composer Volker Bertelmann took home the accolade for his score to anti-war epic ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
- Dune – Hans Zimmer. 2022: Zimmer’s 27-year wait for his second Oscar – his first being in 1994 for The Lion King – set a new composer record, one previously held by Breakfast at Tiffany’s composer Henry Mancini.
- Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. 2021: Three musical greats picked up the Best Score award for Disney and Pixar’s animation about a jazz musician who winds up trapped in an alternate world, and must connect to his true purpose on Earth to find his way out.
- Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir. 2020: Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win an Academy Award for a film score since 1997. In her speech, she urged women and girls to “please speak up; we need to hear your voices.”
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The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. The Sting won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill.
Best PictureBest DirectorThe Sting – Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and ...George Roy Hill – The Sting‡ George Lucas ...Jack Lemmon – Save the Tiger as Harry ...Glenda Jackson – A Touch of Class as ...John Houseman – The Paper Chase as ...Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon as Addie ...The Sting – David S. Ward‡ American ...The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty based ...Marvin Hamlisch scored a hat trick, taking home three Oscars: Best Music, Original Song alongside Alan and Marilyn Bergman for “The Way We Were”, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score for The Way We Were and Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation for The Sting.
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
On October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali became the heavyweight champion of the world for the second time when he knocked out champ George Foreman in the eighth round of the Rumble in the Jungle, a match held in Kinshasa, Zaire. On October 9, 1974, Oskar Schindler died.
