Academy Awards 1974 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: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation	Best Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

• A Touch of Class
• American Graffiti
• Cries & Whispers
• The Exorcist
• The Sting

Best Director

• American Graffiti (George Lucas)
• Cries & Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
• Day for Night (François Truffaut)
• Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
• The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
• The Sting (George Roy Hill)

Best Actor

• Last Tango in Paris (Marlon Brando)
• Save the Tiger (Jack Lemmon)
• Serpico (Al Pacino)
• The Last Detail (Jack Nicholson)
• The Sting (Robert Redford)

Best Actress

• A Touch of Class (Glenda Jackson)
• Cinderella Liberty (Marsha Mason)
• Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Joanne Woodward)
• The Exorcist (Ellen Burstyn)
• The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bang the Drum Slowly (Vincent Gardenia)
• Save the Tiger (Jack Gilford)
• The Exorcist (Jason Miller)
• The Last Detail (Randy Quaid)
• The Paper Chase (John Houseman)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• American Graffiti (Candy Clark)
• Day for Night (Valentina Cortese)
• Paper Moon (Tatum O'Neal)
• Paper Moon (Madeline Kahn)
• Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Sylvia Sidney)
• The Exorcist (Linda Blair)

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

• A Touch of Class
• American Graffiti
• Cries & Whispers
• Day for Night
• Save the Tiger
• The Sting

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Paper Moon
• Serpico
• The Exorcist
• The Last Detail
• The Paper Chase

Best Foreign Language Film

• Day for Night (France)
• The House on Chelouche Street (Israel)
• The Invitation (Switzerland)
• The Pedestrian (West Germany)
• Turkish Delight (Netherlands)

Best Documentary Feature

• Always a New Beginning
• Battle of Berlin
• Journey to the Outer Limits
• The Great American Cowboy
• Walls of Fire

Best Documentary Short

• Background
• Christo's Valley Curtain
• Four Stones for Kanemitsu
• Paisti ag obair
• Princeton: A Search for Answers

Best Live Action Short Subject

• Clockmaker
• Life Times Nine
• The Bolero

Best Animated Short Subject

• Frank Film
• Pulcinella
• The Legend of John Henry

Best Original Dramatic Score

• A Touch of Class
• Cinderella Liberty
• Papillon
• The Day of the Dolphin
• The Way We Were

Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation

• Jesus Christ Superstar
• The Sting
• Tom Sawyer

Best Song

• A Touch of Class ("All That Love Went to Waste")
• Cinderella Liberty ("Nice to Be Around")
• Live and Let Die ("Live and Let Die")
• Robin Hood ("Love")
• The Way We Were ("The Way We Were")

Best Sound

• Paper Moon
• The Day of the Dolphin
• The Exorcist
• The Paper Chase
• The Sting

Best Art Direction

• Brother Sun, Sister Moon
• The Exorcist
• The Sting
• The Way We Were
• Tom Sawyer

Best Cinematography

• Cries & Whispers
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• The Exorcist
• The Sting
• The Way We Were

Best Costume Design

• Cries & Whispers
• Ludwig
• The Sting
• The Way We Were
• Tom Sawyer

Best Film Editing

• American Graffiti
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Exorcist
• The Sting