1972 Oscar Winners
Best Picture
- The Godfather
- Cabaret
- Deliverance
- Sounder
- The Emigrants
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Marlon Brando, The Godfather
- Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
- Michael Caine, Sleuth
- Laurence Olivier, Sleuth
- Paul Winfield, Sounder
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
- Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues
- Cicely Tyson, Sounder
- Maggie Smith, Travels with My Aunt
- Liv Ullmann, The Emigrants
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Joel Grey, Cabaret
- James Caan, The Godfather
- Robert Duvall, The Godfather
- Al Pacino, The Godfather
- Eddie Albert, The Heartbreak Kid
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free
- Susan Tyrrell, Fat City
- Jeannie Berlin, The Heartbreak Kid
- Geraldine Page, Pete ‘n’ Tillie
- Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure
Best Director
- Bob Fosse, Cabaret
- John Boorman, Deliverance
- Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sleuth
- Jan Troell, The Emigrants
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