Awards for 1972
Oscar
Best Picture
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Best Actor in a Leading Role
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Best Actress in a Leading Role
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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Best Director
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Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
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Best Cinematography
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Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
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Best Costume Design
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Best Sound
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Best Film Editing
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Best Effects, Special Visual Effects
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Best Music, Original Song
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Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
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Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score
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Best Short Subject, Animated Films
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Best Short Subject, Live Action Films
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Best Documentary, Short Subjects
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Best Documentary, Features
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Best Foreign Language Film
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Honorary Award
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Charles Chaplin
For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century.
Academy Award of Merit
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Scientific and Engineering Award
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John N. Wilkinson (Optical Radiation Corp.)
For the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.
Technical Achievement Award
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Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, James R. Rochester,
Fenton Hamilton
For the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for motion picture projection.
(Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corp.)
For the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.
Robert D. Auguste (Cinema Products Co.)
For the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera.
(Producers Service Corp., Consolidated Film Industries, Cinema Research Corp., Research Products, Inc.)
For the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems.
(Cinema Products Co.)
For a control to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.