45th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards
name = 45th
caption = "The Godfather"
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
duration = 2 hours, 38 minutes
network = NBC
last = 44th
next = 46thThe 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 Charles Chaplin's first competition Oscar win for Best Score for his 20-year-old film "Limelight", which was eligible due to a technicality; Chaplin had received an honorary Oscar the previous year.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

"The Godfather"
*"Cabaret"
*"Deliverance"
*"The Emigrants"
*"Sounder"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"The Godfather" - Marlon Brando
*"The Ruling Class" - Peter O'Toole
*"Sleuth" - Michael Caine
*"Sleuth" - Laurence Olivier
*"Sounder" - Paul Winfield

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Cabaret" - Liza Minnelli
*"The Emigrants" - Liv Ullmann
*"Lady Sings the Blues" - Diana Ross
*"Sounder" - Cicely Tyson
*"Travels with My Aunt" - Maggie Smith

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"Cabaret" - Joel Grey
*"The Godfather" - James Caan
*"The Godfather" - Robert Duvall
*"The Godfather" - Al Pacino
*"The Heartbreak Kid" - Eddie Albert

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Butterflies Are Free" - Eileen Heckart
*"Fat City" - Susan Tyrell
*"The Heartbreak Kid" - Jeannie Berlin
*"Pete 'n' Tillie" - Geraldine Page
*"The Poseidon Adventure" - Shelley Winters

Best Director

"Cabaret" - Bob Fosse
*"Deliverance "- John Boorman"
*"The Emigrants" - Jan Troell"
*"The Godfather" - Francis Ford Coppola"
*"Sleuth" - Joseph L. Mankiewicz"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"The Godfather" - Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
*"Cabaret" - Jay Presson Allen
*"The Emigrants" - Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund
*"Pete 'n' Tillie" - Julius J. Epstein
*"Sounder" - Lonne Elder III

Best Original Screenplay

"The Candidate" - Jeremy Larner
*"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" - Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere
*"Lady Sings the Blues" - Terence McCloy, Chris Clark and Suzanne De Passe
*"Murmur of the Heart" - Louis Malle
*"Young Winston" - Carl Foreman

Best Cinematography

"Cabaret" - Geoffrey Unsworth

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Cabaret" - Rolf Zehetbauer, Hans Jurgen Kiebach and Herbert Strabel

Best Costume Design

"Travels with My Aunt" - Anthony Powell

Best Sound

"Cabaret" - Robert Knudson and David Hildyard

Best Film Editing

"Cabaret" - David Bretherton

Best Music, Original Song

"The Poseidon Adventure" - Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the song The Morning After

Best Music, Original Dramatic Score

"Limelight" - Charles Chaplin, Ray Rasch and Larry Russell

Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation

"Cabaret" - Ralph Burns

Best Short Subject, Animated Films

"A Christmas Carol"

Best Short Subject, Live Action Films

"Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"This Tiny World"

Best Documentary, Features

"Marjoe"

Best Foreign Language Film

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - France"