44ste Oscar-toekenningsaand

Die 44ste Oscar-toekenningsaand is op 10 April 1972 deur die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles gehou om erkenning te gee aan die rolprente van 1971. Die aanbieders was Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr. en Jack Lemmon.

44ste Oscar-toekenningsaand
Datum	10 April 1972
Plek	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Aanbieder	Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis jr., Jack Lemmon
Pryse & benoemings
Beste rolprent	The French Connection
Meeste pryse	The French Connection (5)
Meeste benoemings	The French Connection, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show (8 elk)

Een van die hoogtepunte van die aand was een van die laaste verskynings van die aktrise, danseres en sangeres Betty Grable, wat toe kanker gehad het. Een van haar mede-akteurs van die 1940's, die sanger Dick Haymes, was saam met haar op die verhoog om die prys vir beste musiek te oorhandig. Sy is die volgende jaar oorlede.

Pryse

Gene Hackman

Jane Fonda

William Friedkin

Hier volg ’n lys van die belangrikste wenners en benoemdes (die wenners word eerste genoem en is in vet druk):

Beste rolprent	Beste regisseur
The French Connection – Philip D'Antoni A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick Fiddler on the Roof – Norman Jewison The Last Picture Show – Stephen J. Friedman Nicholas and Alexandra – Sam Spiegel	William Friedkin – The French Connection Peter Bogdanovich – The Last Picture Show Norman Jewison – Fiddler on the Roof Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Beste akteur	Beste aktrise
Gene Hackman – The French Connection as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as dr. Daniel Hirsch Walter Matthau – Kotch as Joseph P. Kotcher George C. Scott – The Hospital as dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock Chaim Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye	Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels Julie Christie – McCabe & Mrs. Miller as Constance Miller Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville Vanessa Redgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots as Maria, koningin van Skotland Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as keiserin Aleksandra
Beste manlike byspeler	Beste vroulike byspeler
Ben Johnson – The Last Picture Show as Sam the Lion Jeff Bridges – The Last Picture Show as Duane Jackson Leonard Frey – Fiddler on the Roof as Motel Kamzoil Richard Jaeckel – Sometimes a Great Notion as Joe Ben Stamper Roy Scheider – The French Connection as speurder Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo	Cloris Leachman – The Last Picture Show as Ruth Popper Ann-Margret – Carnal Knowledge as Bobbie Ellen Burstyn – The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow Barbara Harris – Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Allison Densmore Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as mev. Maudsley
Beste oorspronklike draaiboek	Beste verwerkte draaiboek
The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro Klute – Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis Summer of '42 – Herman Raucher Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt	The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Vittorio Bonicelli, Ugo Pirro The Last Picture Show – Peter Bogdanovich, Larry McMurtry
Beste buitelandse rolprent	Beste oorspronklike musiek
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Italië Dodes'ka-den – Japan The Emigrants – Swede The Policeman – Israel Tchaikovsky – USSR	Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand Mary, Queen of Scots – John Barry Nicholas and Alexandra – Richard Rodney Bennett Shaft – Isaac Hayes Straw Dogs – Jerry Fielding
Beste kunsredigering	Beste kinematografie
Nicholas and Alexandra – Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon The Andromeda Strain – Boris Leven, William H. Tuntke, Ruby R. Levitt Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Peter Ellenshaw, John B. Mansbridge, Hal Gausman, Emile Kuri Fiddler on the Roof – Robert F. Boyle, Michael Stringer, Peter Lamont Mary, Queen of Scots – Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt	Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris The French Connection – Owen Roizman The Last Picture Show – Robert L. Surtees Nicholas and Alexandra – Freddie Young Summer of '42 – Robert L. Surtees
Beste redigering	Beste visuele effekte
The French Connection – Gerald B. Greenberg The Andromeda Strain – Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes A Clockwork Orange – Bill Butler Kotch – Ralph E. Winters Summer of '42 – Folmar Blangsted	Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett, Alan Maley When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken

Ereprys

• Charlie Chaplin

Eksterne skakels

• Wikimedia Commons het meer media in die kategorie Oscars.
• Hierdie artikel is vertaal uit die Engelse Wikipedia