46th Academy Awards
46th Academy Awards | |
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Date | April 2, 1974 |
Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California |
Hosted by | Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston and David Niven |
Produced by | Jack Haley Jr. |
Directed by | Marty Pasetta |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | The Sting |
Most awards | The Sting (7) |
Most nominations | The Exorcist and The Sting (10) |
TV in the United States | |
Network | NBC |
Duration | 3 hours, 23 minutes |
Ratings | 44.7 million[1] |
The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven.
The Sting won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. The Exorcist and The Way We Were were the only other films to win multiple awards. Marvin Hamlisch won 3 awards, the third person to achieve this feat and, to date, the only person who has won 3 Oscars in one year without winning Best Picture. As of 2023, it is the most recent ceremony in which the 3 highest-grossing films of the year were nominated for Best Picture (The Exorcist, The Sting and American Graffiti).
Winners and nominees
Nominations announced on February 19, 1974. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[2]
Streaking incident
The 46th Academy Awards ceremony is perhaps best remembered as the ceremony in which a
The incident would be referenced 50 years later during the 96th Academy Awards in 2024; host Jimmy Kimmel brought up the streaker and asked the audience, "can you imagine a naked man at the Oscars today?" Eventually, a nude John Cena, holding the award envelope for Best Costume Design over his crotch, emerged from backstage.[6][7]
Other notable events
This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (January 2023) |
- First-time nominee George Lucas made his debut at the Academy Awards with his nostalgic teen drama American Graffiti. It was nominated for Best Picture (Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Kurtz), Director & Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published (Lucas), Editor (Marcia Lucas) and Candy Clark for Best Supporting Actress.
- Jack Lemmon bet his friend Walter Matthau $1,000 to $500 that he would lose the Academy Award for Best Actor; he did not win the bet.[5]
- William Friedkin announced that he would not attend the ball celebrating the Oscars out of enragement that The Exorcist failed to win Best Picture.[5]
- The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to her longtime friend Lawrence Weingarten. Whenever she won an Oscar, she always had either the presenter or another person associated with her film accept it on her behalf. Upon taking the stage, she received a standing ovation, to which she replied "I'm living proof that a person can wait forty-one years to be unselfish."
- Coincidentally, Eddie Fisher's, each appeared in some form.
- This was Susan Hayward's last public appearance before she died of brain cancer a year later (1975).
- At 10 years, 148 days of age, Tatum O'Neal won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paper Moon. She became the youngest winner of an Oscar, a feat unmatched to this day.
- During the ceremony, the whole in memoriam tribute was for legendary producer Samuel Goldwyn, who had died at age 94, three months prior to the event. He is the only person to have an Academy Awards ceremony dedicated solely to him.
- Longtime film veteran/comedian Honorary Academy Awardfor his contributions to the cinema.
- Julia Phillips of The Sting became the first female producer to win for Best Picture.
- With Tatum O'Neal being 10 years old and John Houseman being 71 years old, this was the biggest age gap ever for 2 acting wins.
Multiple nominations and awards
Nominations | Film |
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10 | The Exorcist |
The Sting | |
6 | The Way We Were |
5 | American Graffiti |
Cries and Whispers | |
A Touch of Class | |
4 | Paper Moon |
3 | Cinderella Liberty |
The Last Detail | |
The Paper Chase | |
Save the Tiger | |
Tom Sawyer | |
2 | The Day of the Dolphin |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull | |
Last Tango in Paris | |
Serpico | |
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams |
Awards | Film |
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7 | The Sting |
2 | The Exorcist |
The Way We Were |
Presenters and performers
The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters
Name | Role |
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Hank Simms | Announcer for the 46th Academy Awards |
Walter Mirisch (AMPAS President) | Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony |
Linda Blair Billy Dee Williams |
Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards |
James Caan Raquel Welch |
Presenters of the Documentary Awards |
Jack Valenti | Presenter of the Honorary Award to Henri Langlois (with Gene Kelly serving as his English-language interpreter) |
Candice Bergen Marcel Marceau |
Presenters of the award for Best Sound
|
Richard Benjamin Paula Prentiss |
Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing |
Alfred Hitchcock | Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Lew Wasserman |
Sylvia Sidney Paul Winfield |
Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction |
Peter Falk Twiggy |
Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design |
Peter Lawford Cicely Tyson |
Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography |
Yul Brynner | Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds |
Presenters of the award for Best Original Song and/or Adaptation Score |
Cher Henry Mancini |
Presenters of the award for Best Original Dramatic Score |
Marsha Mason Neil Simon |
Presenters of the award for Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published |
Angie Dickinson Jason Miller |
Presenters of the award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium |
Ann-Margret Burt Bacharach |
Presenters of the award for Best Song |
Ernest Borgnine Cybill Shepherd |
Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor |
Charles Bronson Jill Ireland |
Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress |
Shirley MacLaine Walter Matthau |
Presenters of the award for Best Director |
Katharine Hepburn | Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award |
Jack Lemmon | Presenter of the Honorary Award to Groucho Marx |
Susan Hayward Charlton Heston |
Presenters of the award for Best Actress |
Liza Minnelli Gregory Peck |
Presenters of the award for Best Actor |
Elizabeth Taylor | Presenter of the award for Best Picture |
Performers
Name | Role | Performed |
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Henry Mancini | Musical arranger and Conductor | Orchestral |
Liza Minnelli | Performer | "Oscar" |
Academy Awards Chorus | Performers | "Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge during the Academy Awards' 45th Anniversary montage |
Dyan Cannon | Performer | "All the Love That Went to Waste" from A Touch of Class |
Connie Stevens | Performer | "Live and Let Die" from Live and Let Die |
Jodie Foster and Johnny Whitaker |
Performers | "Love" from Robin Hood |
Peggy Lee | Performer | "The Way We Were" from The Way We Were |
Telly Savalas | Performer | "You're So Nice to Be Around" from Cinderella Liberty |
Academy Awards Orchestra | Performers | “Hooray for Hollywood” (orchestral) during the closing credits |
See also
- 31st Golden Globe Awards
- 1973 in film
- 16th Grammy Awards
- 25th Primetime Emmy Awards
- 26th Primetime Emmy Awards
- 27th British Academy Film Awards
- 28th Tony Awards
References
- ^ Academy Awards TV Ratings Data, 1953-2008, Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2009 Nielsen Media Research, Inc
- ^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-313-33919-6.
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Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 847. ISBN 0-385-04060-1.
- ^ Fienberg, Daniel (March 11, 2024). "Critic's Notebook: Busy and Eclectic Oscars 2024 Telecast Delivers Many Highlights (and a Few Lowlights)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
- ^ "Naked John Cena pays tribute to 50th anniversary of Oscars streaker". EW.com. Retrieved March 11, 2024.