47th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 47th
caption = "The Godfather Part II"
date = Tuesday, April 8, 1975
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra
producer = Howard W. Koch
director = Marty Pasetta
network = NBC
last = 46th
next = 48thThe 47th Academy Awards were presented April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

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*"Chinatown (film)"
*"The Conversation"
*"Lenny (film)"
*"The Towering Inferno"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"Harry and Tonto - Art Carney"
*"Chinatown - Jack Nicholson"
*" - Al Pacino"
*"Lenny - Dustin Hoffman"
*"Murder on the Orient Express - Albert Finney"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Ellen Burstyn"
*"Chinatown - Faye Dunaway"
*"Claudine - Diahann Carroll"
*"Lenny - Valerie Perrine"
*"A Woman Under the Influence - Gena Rowlands"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

" - Robert De Niro"
*" - Michael V. Gazzo"
*" - Lee Strasberg"
*"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot - Jeff Bridges"
*"The Towering Inferno - Fred Astaire"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Murder on the Orient Express - Ingrid Bergman"
*"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Diane Ladd"
*"Blazing Saddles - Madeline Kahn"
*"Day for Night - Valentina Cortese"
*" - Talia Shire"

Best Director

" - Francis Ford Coppola"
*"Chinatown - Roman Polanski"
*"Day for Night - Francois Truffaut"
*"Lenny - Bob Fosse"
*"A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes"

Best Original Screenplay

"Chinatown - Robert Towne"
*"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Robert Getchell"
*"The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola"
*"Day for Night - Francois Truffaut , Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-Louis Richard"
*"Harry and Tonto - Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld"

Best Adapted Screenplay

" - Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo"
*"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richter andLionel Chetwynd"
*"Lenny - Julian Barry"
*"Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn"
*"Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks"

Best Cinematography

"The Towering Inferno - Joseph F. Boric and Fred J. Koenekamp"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

" - Dean Tavoularis , Angelo P. Graham and George R. Nelson"

Best Costume Design

"The Great Gatsby - Theoni V. Aldredge"

Best Sound

"Earthquake - Richard Pierce and Melvin M. Metcalfe Sr."

Best Film Editing

"The Towering Inferno - Harold F. Kress and Carl Kress"

Best Music, Original Song

"The Towering Inferno - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the song We May Never Love Like This Again"

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

" - Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola"

Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation

"The Great Gatsby - Nelson Riddle"

Best Short Subject, Animated Films

"Closed Mondays"

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films

"One-Eyed Men Are Kings"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Don't"

Best Documentary, Features

"Hearts and Minds"

Best Foreign Language Film

"I Remember - Italy"