1973 (46th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1973 (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 Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers.

Best Actor

Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger, Filmways-Jalem-Cirandinha Productions; Paramount.

Best Actress

Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class, Brut Productions; Avco Embassy. (UK)

Actor in a Supporting Role

John Houseman in The Paper Chase, Thompson-Paul Productions; 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon, A Directors Company Production; Paramount.

Directing

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. George Roy Hill.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. Art direction by Henry Bumstead; set decoration by James Payne.

Cinematography

Cries and Whispers, Svenska Filminstitutet-Cinematograph AB Production; New World Pictures. (Sweden) Sven Nykvist.

Costume Design

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. Edith Head.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Great American Cowboy, Kieth Merrill Associates-Rodeo Film Productions. Kieth Merrill, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Princeton: A Search for Answers, Krainin-Sage Productions. Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers.

Film Editing

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. William Reynolds.

Foreign Language Film

Day for Night, Les Films Du Carrosse-P.E.C.F. (Paris)-P.I.C. (Rome) Production; Warner Bros. (France, Italy)

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

The Way We Were, Rastar Productions; Columbia. Marvin Hamlisch.

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

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. Adaptation score by Marvin Hamlisch.

(Song)

The Way We Were from The Way We Were, Rastar Productions; Columbia. Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Short Subjects

(Animated)

Frank Film, Frank Mouris Production. Frank Mouris, Producer.

(Live Action)

The Bolero, Allan Miller Production. Allan Miller and William Fertik, Producers.

Sound

The Exorcist, Hoya Productions; Warner Bros. Robert Knudson and Chris Newman.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

The Exorcist, Hoya Productions; Warner Bros. William Peter Blatty.

(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)

The Sting, Universal-Bill/Phillips-George Roy Hill Film Production; Zanuck/Brown Presentation; Universal. David S. Ward.

Honorary Award

To Henri Langlois for his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past, and his unswerving faith in its future. [ [Statuette]]

To Groucho Marx in recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequaled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Lew Wasserman

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Lawrence Weingarten

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Joachim Gerb and Erich Kastner of The Arnold and Richter Company for the development and engineering of the Arriflex 35BL motion picture camera.

To Magna-Tech Electronic Co., Inc. for the engineering and development of a high-speed re-recording system for motion picture production.

To William W. Valliant of PSC Technology Inc., Howard F. Ott of Eastman Kodak Company, and Gerry Diebold of The Richmark Camera Service Inc. for the development of a liquid-gate system for motion-picture printers.

To Harold A. Scheib, Clifford H. Ellis and Roger W. Banks of Research Products Incorporated for the concept and engineering of the Model 2101 optical printer for motion picture optical effects.

(Class III)

To Rosco Laboratories, Inc. for the technical advances and the development of a complete system of light-control materials for motion picture photography.

To Richard H. Vetter of Todd-AO Corporation for the design of an improved anamorphic focusing system for motion picture photography.