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Best Picture
 AMERICAN GRAFFITI - Lucasfilm/Coppola Company, Universal. Francis Ford Coppola, producer; Gary Kurtz, co-producer
VISNINGAR OCH ROP (CRIES AND WHISPERS) - Svenska Filminstitutet-Cinimatograph AB Prod., New World Pictures (Swedish). Ingmar Bergman, producer
THE EXORCIST - Hoya, Warner Bros. William Peter Blatty, producer
 THE STING (Won 7 Awards) - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal. Tony Bill, Michael Phillips & Julia Phillips, producers
A TOUCH OF CLASS - Brut Prods., Avco Embassy. Melvin Frank, producer
Actor
Marlon Brando in LAST TANGO IN PARIS
Jack Lemmon in SAVE THE TIGER
Jack Nicholson in THE LAST DETAIL
Al Pacino in SERPICO
Robert Redford in THE STING
Actress
Ellen Burstyn in THE EXORCIST
Glenda Jackson in A TOUCH OF CLASS
Marsha Mason in CINDERELLA LIBERTY
Barbra Streisand in THE WAY WE WERE
Joanne Woodward in SUMMER WISHES, WINTER DREAMS
Supporting Actor
Vincent Gardenia in BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY
Jack Gilford in SAVE THE TIGER
John Houseman in THE PAPER CHASE
Jason Miller in THE EXORCIST
Randy Quaid in THE LAST DETAIL
Supporting Actress
Linda Blair in THE EXORCIST
Candy Clark in AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Madeline Kahn in PAPER MOON
Tatum O'Neal in PAPER MOON
Sylvia Sidney in SUMMER WISHES, WINTER DREAMS
Director
Ingmar Bergman for VISNINGAR OCH ROP (CRIES AND WHISPERS)
Bernardo Bertolucci for LAST TANGO IN PARIS
William Friedkin for THE EXORCIST
George Roy Hill for THE STING
George Lucas for AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Based on Factual Material or
Material Not Previously Published or Produced
George Lucas, Gloria Katz & Willard Huyck - AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Ingmar Bergman - VISNINGAR OCH ROP (CRIES AND WHISPERS)
Steve Shagan - SAVE THE TIGER
David S. Ward - THE STING
Melvin Frank & Jack Rose - A TOUCH OF CLASS
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium
William Peter Blatty - THE EXORCIST
Robert Towne - THE LAST DETAIL
James Bridges - THE PAPER CHASE
Alvin Sargent - PAPER MOON
Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler - SERPICO
Foreign Language Film
LA NUIT AMÉRICAINE (DAY FOR NIGHT, France)
HA-BAYIT BERECHOV CHELOUCHE (THE HOUSE ON CHELOUCHE STREET, Israel)
L'INVITATION (Switzerland)
DER FUßGÄNGER (THE PEDESTRIAN (West Germany)
TURKS FRUIT (TURKISH DELIGHT, Netherlands)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Lorenzo Mongiardino & Gianni Quaranta - Art Direction, Carmelo Patrono - Set Decoration FRATELLO SOLE, SORELLA LUNA (BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON)
Bill Malley - Art Direction, Jerry Wunderlich - Set Decoration THE EXORCIST
Henry Bumstead - Art Direction, James Payne - Set Decoration THE STING
Philip Jefferies - Art Direction, Robert DeVestel - Set Decoration TOM SAWYER
Stephen Grimes - Art Direction, William Kiernan - Set Decoration THE WAY WE WERE
Cinematography
Sven Nykvist - VISNINGAR OCH ROP (CRIES AND WHISPERS)
Owen Roizman - THE EXORCIST
Jack Couffer - JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
Robert L. Surtees - THE STING
Harry Stradling, Jr. - THE WAY WE WERE
Costume Design
Marik Vos - VISNINGAR OCH ROP (CRIES AND WHISPERS)
Piero Tosi - LUDWIG
Edith Head - THE STING
Donfeld - TOM SAWYER
Dorothy Jeakins & Moss Mabry - THE WAY WE WERE
Documentary (Features)
John D. Goodell - Producer ALWAYS A NEW BEGINNING
Bengt Von Zur Muehlen - Producer SCHLACHT UM BERLIN (BATTLE OF BERLIN)
Kieth Merrill - Producer THE GREAT AMERICAN COWBOY
Alex Grasshoff - Producer JOURNEY TO THE OUTER LIMITS
Gertrude Ross Marks & Edmund F. Penney - Producers WALLS OF FIRE
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Carmen D'Avino - Producer BACKGROUND
Louis Marcus - Producer CHILDREN AT WORK
Albert Maysles & David Maysles - Producers CHRISTO'S VALLEY CURTAIN
Terry Sanders & June Wayne - Producers FOUR STONES FOR KANEMITSU
Julian Krainin & DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. - Producers PRINCETON: A SEARCH FOR ANSWERS
Film Editing
Verna Fields & Marcia Lucas - AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Ralph Kemplen - THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
Jordan Leondopoulos, Bud Smith, Evan Lottman & Norman Gay - THE EXORCIST
Frank P. Keller & James Galloway - JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
William H. Reynolds - THE STING
Music: Original Dramatic Score
John Williams - CINDERELLA LIBERTY
Georges Delerue - THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN
Jerry Goldsmith - PAPILLON
John Cameron - A TOUCH OF CLASS
Marvin Hamlisch - THE WAY WE WERE
Music: Scoring - Original Song Score and/or Adaptation
Andre Previn, Herbert Spencer & Andrew Lloyd Webber - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Marvin Hamlisch - THE STING
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Song Score, John Williams - TOM SAWYER
Music: Song
Georgie Barrie - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyric A TOUCH OF CLASS "All That Love Went to Waste"
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney - Music & Lyric LIVE AND LET DIE "Live And Let Die"
George Bruns - Music, Floyd Huddleston - Lyric ROBIN HOOD "Love"
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric THE WAY WE WERE "The Way We Were" 
John Williams - Music, Paul Williams - Lyric CINDERELLA LIBERTY "You're So Nice to Be Around"
Short Subjects (Animated Films)
Frank Mouris - Producer FRANK FILM
Nick Bosustow & David Adams - Producers THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY
Emanuele Luzzati & Giulio Gianini - Producers PULCINELLA
Short Subjects (Live Action Films)
Allan Miller & William Fertik - Producers THE BOLERO
Richard Gayer - Producer CLOCKMAKER
Pen Densham & John Watson - Producers LIFE TIMES NINE
Sound
Richard Portman & Lawrence O. Jost - THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN
Robert Knudson & Chris Newman - THE EXORCIST
Donald O. Mitchell & Lawrence O. Jost - THE PAPER CHASE
Richard Portman & Les Fresholtz - PAPER MOON
Ronald K. Pierce & Robert Bertrand - THE STING
Special Achievement Awards
No Award given for 1973.
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1973.
Class II (Plaques):
 Joachim Gerb & Erich Kastner (Arnold and Richter Company) - For the development and engineering of the Arriflex 35BL motion picture camera.
Magna-Tech Electronic Company Inc. - For the engineering and development of a high-speed re-recording system for motion picture production.
William W. Valliant (PSC Technology Inc.), Howard F. Ott (Eastman Kodak Company) & Gerry Diebold (Richmark Camera Service Inc.) - For the development of a liquid-gate system for motion-picture printers.
Harold A. Scheib, Clifford H. Ellis & Roger W. Banks (Research Products Inc.) - For the concept and engineering of the Model 2101 optical printer for motion picture optical effects.
Class III (Citations):
 Rosco Laboratories Inc. - For the technical advances and the development of a complete system of light-control materials for motion picture photography.
Richard A. Vetter (Todd-AO Corporation) - For the design of an improved anamorphic focusing system for motion picture photography.
Honorary and Other Awards
Henri Langlois - For his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future. Winner presented a Statuette.
Groucho Marx - In recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Lawrence Weingarten
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Lew Wasserman
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FIRSTS
· At ten years old, Tatum O'Neal becomes the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award.
· Tatum O'Neal wins for film debut. Linda Blair and Jason Miller nominated for film debuts.
· Marvin Hamlisch wins three Oscars®, tying with Billy Wilder for most Academy Awards for feature films by an individual in one year.
RULE CHANGES
"Song" and "Scoring" category names changed.
ROLE REVERSALS
· James Mason walked out on John Houseman's role in The Paper Chase. Director James Bridges called Houseman, who at the time was head of the Julliard school, for ideas for a replacement. "Get Edward G. Robinson," Houseman suggested. When Bridges discovered Robinson was too ill, the role went to Houseman. It was only his second film appearance.
· Commenting on his possible role in The Sting, Jack Nicholson said, "I like it. I like the period setting, the whole project, and I know it will be commercial. But I need to put my energies into a movie that really needs them. I need to take a risk."
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Last Tango in Paris, Mean Streets
Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro - Bang the Drum Slowly
Song: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," "Are You Man Enough?"
UNMENTIONABLES:
· Ross Hunter's first movie since Airport, a $12 million musical remake of Frank Capra's 1937 film Lost Horizon, bombed beautifully with audiences and critics. Peter Finch, Sally Kellerman and Liv Ullmann all tried to sing bravely through it all, but Bette Midler couldn't resist this remark to her concert audiences: "I call it Lost-Her Reason. I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical!"
· On the other side of the coin, critics went wild over Bernard Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. Pauline Kael wrote, "This must be the most powerfully erotic movie ever made, and it may turn out to be the most liberating. Brando and Bertolucci have altered the face of an art form." In Hollywood, director Robert Altman walked out of a screening in a daze, rhapsodizing, "Bertolucci has carried film honesty to its ultimate. How dare I make another movie?" However, some high profile Hollywood types called it pornography.
· Released at Christmas, The Exorcist became Warner Bros. most profitable movie to date, breaking house records in every single theater where it played.
· Exorcist director William Friedkin initially broke his promise of a special screen credit for Mercedes McCambridge's voice work as the devil. After complaints in the press from the actress, Friedkin relented.
· Former B-movie king Roger Corman set up New World Pictures and purchased the US distribution rights for Bergman's Cries and Whispers for $75,000.
· Katharine Hepburn agreed to make her first appearance at the Awards show, handing out the Thalberg Award to Lawrence Weingarten, the man who had produced three of the Tracy-Hepburn classics. She got to write her own speech, and her appearace was kept secret.
· Best Actress presenter Susan Hayward was terminally ill with cancer. She had recently suffered a brain tumor and subsequent cobalt treatments had reduced her to 85 pounds.
· As David Niven began to introduce Best Picture presenter Elizabeth Taylor as "a very important contributor to world entertainment and someone quite likely--" his speech was interrupted by screams and laughter. A naked man streaked by, flashing a peace sign. Henry Mancini struck up the orchestra with "Sunny Side Up" and TV director Marty Pasetta switched to another camera so viewers would be spared the sight of the man's genitals. When the streaker ran offstage, the Academy security nabbed him, and dragged him to the pressroom for pictures -- clothed. Niven was amused, and prepared. "Ladies and gentlemen, that was bound to happen. Just think, the only laugh that man will probably ever get is for stripping and showing off his shortcomings."
· After the show, Adapted Screenplay winner William Peter Blatty didn't know what to make of his Award. Disappointed at the showing made by The Exorcist that evening, he said, "The Academy should fold its tent and go back to baking apple strudel or whatever they can do well." He blamed George Cukor for campaigning against a Special Achievement Award for the film's visual effects.
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