| 47th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Tuesday, April 8, 1975 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles | |||
| Host | Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra | |||
| Producer | Howard W. Koch | |||
| Director | Marty Pasetta | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | The Godfather Part II | |||
| Most awards | The Godfather Part II (6) | |||
| Most nominations | Chinatown and The Godfather Part II (11) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | NBC | |||
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The 47th Academy Awards were presented April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra. This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights, which they still hold to this day.
Between the two of them, father and son Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola won no less than four awards this one night. The event occurred while a massive thunderstorm raged outside. The success of The Godfather Part II was notable; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor (six) and duplicated its feat of three Best Supporting Actor nominations.
Prolific and flamboyant film producer Robert Evans received his only Academy Award nomination as the producer of Chinatown.
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Winners & Nominees [edit]
Winners are highlighted in bold.[1][2]
Presenters [edit]
- Lauren Bacall (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
- Warren Beatty (Presenter: Best Picture)
- Ingrid Bergman (Presenter: Honorary Award to Jean Renoir)
- Susan Blakely and O.J. Simpson (Presenters: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
- Joseph Bottoms and Deborah Raffin (Presenters: Best Sound)
- Macdonald Carey and Jennifer O'Neill (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
- Diahann Carroll and Johnny Green (Presenters: Music Awards)
- Sammy Davis Jr. (Presenter: Musical Tribute to Fred Astaire)
- Peter Falk and Katharine Ross (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
- Susan George and Jack Valenti (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
- Goldie Hawn and Robert Wise (Presenters: Best Director)
- Bob Hope (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
- Lauren Hutton and Danny Thomas (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
- Glenda Jackson (Presenter: Best Actor)
- Gene Kelly (Presenter: Best Original Song)
- Jack Lemmon (Presenter: Best Actress)
- Roddy McDowall and Brenda Vaccaro (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
- James Michener (Presenter: Writing Awards)
- Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal (Presenters: Best Supporting Actor)
- Frank Sinatra (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
- Jon Voight and Raquel Welch (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
- John Wayne (Presenter: Honorary Award to Howard Hawks)
Performers [edit]
- Aretha Franklin ("Wherever Love Takes Me" from Gold)
- Jack Jones ("Little Prince" from The Little Prince)
- Frankie Laine ("Blazing Saddles" from Blazing Saddles)
- Frankie Laine, Jack Jones, and Aretha Franklin ("We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno and "Benji's Theme (I Feel Love)" from Benji)
See also [edit]
- Academy Awards
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- Academy Honorary Award
- 47th Academy Awards nominees and winners
- 32nd Golden Globe Awards
- 1974 in film
- 17th Grammy Awards
- 26th Primetime Emmy Awards
- 27th Primetime Emmy Awards
- 28th British Academy Film Awards
- 29th Tony Awards
- Governors Awards
References [edit]
- ^ The Official Academy Awards® Database
- ^ "The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
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