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Oscars 1972: Winners and Nominees of the 44th Academy Awards

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These movies have won or been nominated for the Oscars 1972 on 04/10/1972.

The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon. One of the highlights of the evening was the appearance of Betty Grable who made one of her last public appearances. She appeared along with one of her leading men from the 1940s, singer Dick Haymes, to present the musical scoring awards. Grable died the following year. This was the first time in the history of the Awards in which the nominees were shown on superimposed pictures while being announced. The ceremony was viewed by seven million people. ()

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(1971)

G
| 1h 40min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 1,467 votes)

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

Directed by Mel Stuart - With Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson, Ed Peck, ...
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A Clockwork Orange(1971)

NC-17
| 2h 17min | Science Fiction, Crime
4.1/5 (with 6,035 votes)

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

Directed by Stanley Kubrick - With Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, Godfrey Quigley, Anthony Sharp, Warren Clarke, ...
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Diamonds Are Forever(1971)

PG
| 2h | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 882 votes)

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, ...
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Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

G
| 3h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 231 votes)

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Paul Michael Glaser, ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks(1971)

G
| 1h 57min | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
3.5/5 (with 417 votes)

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

Directed by Robert Stevenson - With Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Cindy O'Callaghan, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, ...
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The Conformist(1971)

1h 48min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 282 votes)

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Enzo Tarascio, ...
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Straw Dogs(1971)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 388 votes)

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, David Warner, Jim Norton, ...

Shaft(1971)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 145 votes)

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Directed by Gordon Parks - With Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Dominic Barto, Antonio Fargas, Lawrence Pressman, ...
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The French Connection(1971)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 783 votes)

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frédéric de Pasquale, ...
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Klute(1971)

R
| 1h 54min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 166 votes)

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George, ...
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Carnal Knowledge(1971)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 64 votes)

The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, ...
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The Andromeda Strain(1971)

G
| 2h 11min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 280 votes)

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, ...
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The Last Picture Show(1971)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 273 votes)

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich - With Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, ...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller(1971)

R
| 2h | Western, Drama
3.6/5 (with 161 votes)

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, William Devane, Michael Murphy, ...
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970)

1h 51min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 325 votes)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Directed by Elio Petri - With Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Salvo Randone, Orazio Orlando, Arturo Dominici, ...
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Death in Venice(1971)

2h 10min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 204 votes)

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole André, ...
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Summer of '42(1971)

PG
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 62 votes)

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

Directed by Robert Mulligan - With Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Christopher Norris, Lou Frizzell, ...
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Dodes'ka-den(1970)

2h 20min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 52 votes)

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Kamatari Fujiwara, Kin Sugai, Kunie Tanaka, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hisashi Igawa, Tatsuo Matsumura, ...

Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

R
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Directed by John Schlesinger - With Nike Arrighi, Murray Head, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Peggy Ashcroft, Daniel Day-Lewis, ...

The Hospital(1971)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.

Directed by Arthur Hiller - With George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Stephen Elliott, Nancy Marchand, ...
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The Emigrants(1971)

PG
| 3h 11min | Drama, History, Western
3.7/5 (with 46 votes)

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.

Directed by Jan Troell - With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Monica Zetterlund, Allan Edwall, Hans Alfredson, ...
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The Hellstrom Chronicle(1971)

G
| 1h 30min | Science Fiction, Documentary
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Directed by Walon Green - With Lawrence Pressman

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1970)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Alessandro D'Alatri, ...

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth(1970)

G
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

Directed by Val Guest - With Victoria Vetri, Patrick Allen, Magda Konopka, Imogen Hassall, Patrick Holt, Robin Hawdon, ...

Sometimes a Great Notion(1971)

PG
| 1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama
3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.

Directed by Paul Newman - With Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Michael Sarrazin, Richard Jaeckel, Cliff Potts, ...

Nicholas and Alexandra(1971)

PG
| 3h 9min | Romance / Love, Drama, War, History
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner - With Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning, ...
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The Go-Between(1971)

PG
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Dominic Guard, Michael Redgrave, ...
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Mary, Queen of Scots(1971)

2h 8min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

Directed by Charles Jarrott - With Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, ...

The Sorrow and the Pity(1971)

4h 11min | Documentary, History, War
3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.

Directed by Marcel Ophuls - With Anthony Eden, Christian de la Mazière, Denis Rake, Edward Spears, Émile Coulaudon, Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, ...

On Any Sunday(1971)

G
| 1h 36min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.

Directed by Bruce Brown
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