1974 (47th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1974 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount. Francis Ford Coppola, Producer; Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos, Co-Producers.

Best Actor

Art Carney in Harry and Tonto, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actress

Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Warner Bros.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express, G.W. Films, Ltd. Production; Paramount. (UK, USA)

Directing

The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount. Francis Ford Coppola.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount. Art direction by Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; set decoration by George R. Nelson.

Cinematography

The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc.

Costume Design

The Great Gatsby, David Merrick Production; Paramount. Theoni V. Aldredge.

Documentary

(Feature)

Hearts and Minds, Touchstone-Audjeff-BBS Production; Howard Zucker/Henry Jaglom-Rainbow Pictures Presentation. Peter Davis and Bert Schneider, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Don’t, R.A. Films. Robin Lehman, Producer.

Film Editing

The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress.

Foreign Language Film

Amarcord, F.C. (Rome) - P.E.C.F. (Paris) Production; New World Pictures. (Italy, France)

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount. Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola.

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

The Great Gatsby, David Merrick Production; Paramount. Adaptation score by Nelson Riddle.

(Song)

We May Never Love Like This Again from The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen Production; 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.

Short Films

(Animated)

Closed Mondays, Lighthouse Productions. Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner, Producers.

(Live Action)

One-Eyed Men Are Kings, C.A.P.A.C. Productions (Paris). (France) Paul Claudon and Edmond Sechan, Producers.

Sound

Earthquake, Universal-Mark Robson-Filmakers Group Production; Universal. Ronald Pierce and Melvin Metcalfe, Sr.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

Earthquake, Universal-Mark Robson-Filmakers Group Production; Universal. Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson and Albert Whitlock.

Writing

(Original Screenplay)

Chinatown, Robert Evans Production; Paramount. Robert Towne.

(Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

The Godfather Part II, Coppola Company Production; Paramount. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzzo.

Honorary Award

To Howard Hawks—A master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema. [ [Statuette]]

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. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Arthur B. Krim

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

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.

To The Burbank Studios Sound Department for the design of new audio control consoles engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation.

To Samuel Goldwyn Studios Sound Department for the design of a new audio control console engineered and constructed by the Quad-Eight Sound Corporation.

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.

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.

(Class III)

To The Elemack Company, Rome, Italy, for the design and development of their Spyder camera dolly.

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.