1972

Best Picture

The Godfather
-Last Tango In Paris
-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
-The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
-Frenzy

Best Director

"Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch. Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is: Johnny Fontane will never get that movie. I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!"
Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather
-Luis Bunuel for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
-Bernardo Bertolucci for Last Tango In Paris
-Alfred Hitchcock for Frenzy
-Werner Herzog for Aguirre, Wrath of God

Best Actor

"Good. Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But, until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
Marlon Brando as "Don" Vito Corleone in The Godfather
-Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather
-Marlon Brando as Paul in Last Tango In Paris
-Paul Newman as Judge Roy Bean in The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
-Laurence Olivier as Andrew Wyke in Sleuth

Best Actress

"Let's drink a toast to our life in the hotel."
Maria Schneider as Jeanne in Last Tango In Paris
-Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret
-Juliet Mills as Pamela Piggott in Avanti!
-Ali MacGraw as Carol McCoy in The Getaway
-Maggie Smith as Aunt Augusta Bertram in Travels With My Aunt

Best Supporting Actor

"Some of the other families won't sit still for an all out war."
Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen in The Godfather
-James Caan as Santino "Sonny" Corleone in The Godfather
-Stacy Keach as Bad Bob in The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
-Joel Grey as Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret
-Richard Castellano as Peter Clemenza in The Godfather

Best Supporting Actress

"Aw, vaffunculo you!"
Talia Shire as Connie Corleone Rizzi in The Godfather
-Diane Keaton as Kay Adams in The Godfather
-Ava Gardner as Lily Langtry in The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean
-Shelley Winters as Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure
-Ida Lupino as Elvira Bonner in Junior Bonner

Best Screenplay

"Look how they massacred my boy..."
The Godfather
-Avanti!
-Deliverence
-Cries & Whispers
-Frenzy
-Sleuth