The Academy Awards
1974 Best Picture The Godfather Part II Chinatown The Conversation Lenny The Towering Inferno Best Director Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II Roman Polanski - Chinatown Francois Truffaut - Day for Night Bob Fosse - Lenny John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence Best Actor Art Carney - Harry and Tonto Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express Dustin Hoffman - Lenny Jack Nicholson - Chinatown Al Pacino - The Godfather Part II Best Actress Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Diahann Carroll - Claudine Faye Dunaway - Chinatown Valerie Perinne - Lenny Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence Best Supporting Actor Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Michael V. Gazzo - The Godfather Part II Lee Strasberg - The Godfather Part II Best Supporting Actress 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 Best Original Screenplay Chinatown Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore The Conversation Day for Night (La Nuit americaine) Harry and Tonto Best Adapted Screenplay The Godfather Part II The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Lenny Murder on the Orient Express Young Frankenstein Best Musical Score Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola - The Godfather Part II Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown Richard Rodney Bennett - Murder on the Orient Express Alex North - Shanks John Williams - The Towering Inferno Best Original Song “We May Never Love Like This Again” - The Towering Inferno “Benji’s Theme (I Feel Love)” - Benji “Blazing Saddles” - Blazing Saddles “Little Prince” - The Little Prince “Wherever Love Takes Me” - Gold |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1974 Best Picture The Great Gatsby Chinatown The Conversation Murder on the Orient Express The Towering Inferno Best Director Jack Clayton - The Great Gatsby Roman Polanski - Chinatown Francois Truffaut - Day for Night Sidney Lumet - Murder on the Orient Express Irwin Allen and John Guillermin - The Towering Inferno Best Actor Robert Redford - The Great Gatsby Albert Finney - Murder on the Orient Express Stacy Keach - Luther Jack Nicholson - Chinatown Brock Peters - Lost in the Stars Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein Best Actress Mia Farrow - The Great Gatsby Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence Liv Ullmann - The Abdication Best Supporting Actor Jeff Bridges - Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno Robert De Niro - The Godfather Part II Richard Kiley - The Little Prince Paul Newman - The Towering Inferno Best Supporting Actress Faye Dunaway - Chinatown Karen Black - The Great Gatsby Valentina Cortese - Day for Night Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Juvenile Award Steven Warner - The Little Prince Best Dramatic Screenplay The Great Gatsby Chinatown Lovin' Molly Luther Murder on the Orient Express Best Comedic Screenplay Young Frankenstein Day for Night The Dion Brothers Best Musical Score John Williams - The Towering Inferno Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown Frederick Loewe - The Little Prince Richard Rodney Bennett - Murder on the Orient Express John Morris - Young Frankenstein Best Original Song "Blazing Saddles" - Blazing Saddles "Little Prince" - The Little Prince "Closer and Closer and Closer" - The Little Prince |