Academy Awards 1973 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Animated Short Subject	Best Original Dramatic Score
Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score	Best Song – Original for the Picture
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

• Cabaret
• Deliverance
• Sounder
• The Godfather

Best Director

• Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
• Deliverance (John Boorman)
• Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
• The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)

Best Actor

• Sleuth (Michael Caine)
• Sleuth (Laurence Olivier)
• Sounder (Paul Winfield)
• The Godfather (Marlon Brando)
• The Ruling Class (Peter O'Toole)

Best Actress

• Cabaret (Liza Minnelli)
• 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 (Al Pacino)
• The Godfather (Robert Duvall)
• The Heartbreak Kid (Eddie Albert)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Butterflies Are Free (Eileen Heckart)
• Fat City (Susan Tyrrell)
• Pete 'n' Tillie (Geraldine Page)
• The Heartbreak Kid (Jeannie Berlin)
• The Poseidon Adventure (Shelley Winters)

Best Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced

• Lady Sings the Blues
• Murmur of the Heart
• The Candidate
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Young Winston

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Cabaret
• Pete 'n' Tillie
• Sounder
• The Godfather

Best Foreign Language Film

• I Love You Rosa (Israel)
• Mi querida señorita (Spain)
• The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Russia)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (France)
• The New Land (Sweden)

Best Documentary Feature

• Bij de beesten af
• Malcolm X
• Manson
• Marjoe
• The Silent Revolution

Best Documentary Short

• Hundertwassers Regentag
• K-Z
• Selling Out
• The Tide of Traffic
• This Tiny World

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Frog Story
• Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream
• Solo

Best Animated Short Subject

• A Christmas Carol
• Kama Sutra Rides Again
• Tup Tup

Best Original Dramatic Score

• Images
• Limelight
• Napoleon and Samantha
• Sleuth
• The Godfather
• The Poseidon Adventure

Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score

• Cabaret
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Man of La Mancha

Best Song – Original for the Picture

• Ben ("Ben")
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ("Marmalade, Molasses & Honey")
• The Little Ark ("Come Follow, Follow Me")
• The Poseidon Adventure ("The Morning After")
• The Stepmother ("Strange Are the Ways of Love")

Best Sound

• Butterflies Are Free
• Cabaret
• The Candidate
• The Godfather
• The Poseidon Adventure

Best Art Direction

• Cabaret
• Lady Sings the Blues
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Travels with My Aunt
• Young Winston

Best Cinematography

• 1776
• Butterflies Are Free
• Cabaret
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Travels with My Aunt

Best Costume Design

• Lady Sings the Blues
• The Godfather
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Travels with My Aunt
• Young Winston

Best Film Editing

• Cabaret
• Deliverance
• The Godfather
• The Hot Rock
• The Poseidon Adventure