45th Academy Awards

45th Academy Awards
Date	Tuesday, March 27, 1973
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson
Producer	Howard W. Koch
Director	Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture	The Godfather
Most awards	Cabaret (8)
Most nominations	The Godfather and Cabaret (10)
TV in the United States
Network	NBC
Duration	2 hours, 38 minutes
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The 45th Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson.

The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he would not show up to collect his Best Actor award for The Godfather, and by Charlie Chaplin's first competitive Oscar win for Best Original Score for his 20-year-old film Limelight, which was eligible due to a technicality. Chaplin had received an honorary Oscar the previous year.

Cabaret, Bob Fosse's revival of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Although it is now recognized as one of the most acclaimed and beloved films of all time, The Godfather only received three Academy Awards.

Winners & Nominees

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
The Godfather – Albert S. Ruddy Cabaret – Cy Feuer Deliverance – John Boorman The Emigrants – Bengt Forslund Sounder – Robert B. Radnitz	Bob Fosse – Cabaret John Boorman – Deliverance Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth Jan Troell – The Emigrants
Best Actor	Best Actress
Marlon Brando – The Godfather as Vito Corleone (He declined) Michael Caine – Sleuth as Milo Tindle Laurence Olivier – Sleuth as Andrew Wyke Peter O'Toole – The Ruling Class as Jack Gurney Paul Winfield – Sounder as Nathan Lee Morgan	Liza Minnelli – Cabaret as Sally Bowles Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues as Billie Holiday Maggie Smith – Travels with My Aunt as Augusta Bertram Cicely Tyson – Sounder as Rebecca Morgan Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants as Kristina Nilsson
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Joel Grey – Cabaret as Master of Ceremonies Eddie Albert – The Heartbreak Kid as Mr. Corcoran James Caan – The Godfather as Santino "Sonny" Corleone Robert Duvall – The Godfather as Tom Hagen Al Pacino – The Godfather as Michael Corleone	Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free as Mrs. Baker Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid as Lila Kolodny Geraldine Page – Pete 'n' Tillie as Gertrude Susan Tyrrell – Fat City as Oma Shelley Winters – The Poseidon Adventure as Belle Rosen
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Candidate – Jeremy Larner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière Lady Sings the Blues – Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe and Terence McCloy Murmur of the Heart – Louis Malle Young Winston – Carl Foreman	The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo from The Godfather by Puzo Cabaret – Jay Presson Allen from Cabaret by Fred Ebb and John Kander The Emigrants – Bengt Forslund and Jan Troell from The Emigrants and Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg Pete 'n' Tillie – Julius J. Epstein from Witch's Milk and Peter De Vries Sounder – Lonne Elder III from Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Marjoe – Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith Ape and Super-Ape – Bert Haanstra Malcolm X – Arnold Perl and Marvin Worth Manson – Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick The Silent Revolution – Eckehard Munck	This Tiny World – Charles Huguenot van der Linden and Martina Huguenot van der Linden Hundertwasser's Rainy Day – Peter Schamoni K-Z – Giorgio Treves Selling Out – Tadeusz Jaworski The Tide of Traffic – Humphrey Swingler
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Original Song
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France) in French – Luis Buñuel The Dawns Here Are Quiet (USSR) in Russian – Stanislav Rostotsky I Love You Rosa (Israel) in Hebrew – Moshé Mizrahi My Dearest Senorita (Spain) in Spanish – Jaime de Armiñán The New Land (Sweden) in Swedish – Jan Troell	"The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure – Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha "Ben" from Ben – Don Black and Walter Scharf "Come Follow, Follow Me" from The Little Ark – Fred Karlin and Marsha Karlin "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Maurice Jarre "Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Stepmother – Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream – Richard Barclay Frog Story – Ray Gideon and Ron Satlof Solo – David Adams	A Christmas Carol – Richard Williams Kama Sutra Rides Again – Bob Godfrey Tup Tup – Nedeljko Dragic
Best Original Score (Dramatic)	Best Score (Adaptation and Original Song)
Limelight – Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell Images – John Williams Napoleon and Samantha – Buddy Baker The Poseidon Adventure – John Williams Sleuth – John Addison	Cabaret – Adaptation: Ralph Burns Lady Sings the Blues – Adaptation: Gil Askey Man of La Mancha – Adaptation: Laurence Rosenthal
Best Costume Design	Best Sound Mixing
Travels with My Aunt – Anthony Designer The Godfather – Anna Hill Johnstone Lady Sings the Blues – Ray Aghayan, Norma Koch and Bob Mackie The Poseidon Adventure – Paul Zastupnevich Young Winston – Anthony Mendleson	Cabaret – David Hildyard and Robert Knudson Butterflies Are Free – Charles T. Knight and Arthur Piantadosi The Candidate – Gene Cantamessa and Richard Portman The Godfather – Charles Grenzbach, Chris Newman and Richard Portman The Poseidon Adventure – Herman Lewis and Theodore Soderberg
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Cabaret – Art Direction: Jurgen Kiebach and Rolf Zehetbauer; Set Decoration: Herbert Strabel Lady Sings the Blues – Art Direction: Carl Anderson; Set Decoration: Reg Allen The Poseidon Adventure – Art Direction: William Creber; Set Decoration: Raphael Bretton Travels with My Aunt – Art Direction: John Box, Robert W. Laing and Gil Parrondo Young Winston – Art Direction: Donald M. Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark and William Hutchinson; Set Decoration: Peter James	Cabaret – Geoffrey Unsworth 1776 – Harry Stradling, Jr. Butterflies Are Free – Charles Lang The Poseidon Adventure – Harold E. Stine Travels with My Aunt – Douglas Slocombe
Best Film Editing
Cabaret – David Bretherton Deliverance – Tom Priestley The Godfather – William H. Reynolds and Peter Zinner The Hot Rock – Fred W. Berger and Frank P. Keller The Poseidon Adventure – Harold F. Kress

Honorary Academy Awards

Academy Honorary Award

• Charles S. Boren
• Edward G. Robinson

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following 15 films received multiple nominations.

• Ten: Cabaret and The Godfather
• Eight: The Poseidon Adventure
• Five: Lady Sings the Blues
• Four: The Emigrants, Sleuth, Sounder and Travels with My Aunt
• Three: Butterflies Are Free, Deliverance and Young Winston
• Two: The Candidate, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Heartbreak Kid and Pete 'n' Tillie

^ A Does not include the one nomination received for Best Foreign Language Film the previous year

The following two films received multiple awards.

• Eight: Cabaret
• Three: The Godfather

Presenters and Performers

Presenters

• Eddie Albert and Edward Albert (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Julie Andrews and George Stevens (Presenters: Best Director)
• Bea Arthur and Peter Boyle (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
• Marisa Berenson and Michael Caine (Presenters: Best Costume Design)
• Candice Bergen and Billy Dee Williams (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
• Sonny Bono and Cher (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Dyan Cannon and Burt Reynolds (Presenters: Music Awards)
• James Coburn and Diana Ross (Presenters: Best Supporting Actor)
• Robert Duvall and Cloris Leachman (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
• Clint Eastwood (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Greer Garson and Laurence Harvey (Presenters: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• John Gavin and Katharine Ross (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Gene Hackman and Raquel Welch (Presenters: Best Actress)
• Charlton Heston (Presenter: Honorary Award to Edward G. Robinson)
• Angela Lansbury (Presenter: Opening Musical Number)
• Jack Lemmon (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann (Presenters: Best Actor)
• Merle Oberon (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
• Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
• Elke Sommer and Jack Valenti (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Richard Walsh (Presenter: Honorary Award to Charles S. Boren)

Performers

• Glen Campbell and The Mike Curb Congregation ("Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" from The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean)
• Diahann Carroll ("Strange Are the Ways of Love" from The Stepmother)
• Michael Jackson ("Ben" from Ben)
• The Springfield Revival ("Come Follow, Follow Me" from The Little Ark)
• Connie Stevens ("The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure)

See also

• Academy Awards
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Academy Honorary Award
• 45th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 30th Golden Globe Awards
• 1972 in film
• 15th Grammy Awards
• 24th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 25th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 26th British Academy Film Awards
• 27th Tony Awards
• Governors Awards