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Best Picture Win: The French Connection Runner-Up: A Clockwork Orange Runner-Up: Fiddler on the Roof Runner-Up: Nicholas and Alexandra Runner-Up: The Last Picture Show Best Director Win: William Friedkin, The French Connection Runner-Up: Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange Runner-Up: Norman Jewison, Fiddler on the Roof Runner-Up: John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday Runner-Up: Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show Best Actor Win: Gene Hackman, The French Connection Runner-Up: Topol, Fiddler on the Roof Runner-Up: Walter Matthau, Kotch Runner-Up: Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday Runner-Up: George C. Scott, The Hospital Best Actress Win: Jane Fonda, Klute Runner-Up: Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots Runner-Up: Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller Runner-Up: Janet Suzman, Nicholas and Alexandra Runner-Up: Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday Best Supporting Actor Win: Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show Runner-Up: Leonard Frey, Fiddler on the Roof Runner-Up: Richard Jaeckel, Sometimes a Great Notion Runner-Up: Roy Scheider, The French Connection Runner-Up: Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show Best Supporting Actress Win: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show Runner-Up: Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge Runner-Up: Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between Runner-Up: Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show Runner-Up: Barbara Harris, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Best Adapted Screenplay Win: Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection Runner-Up: Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange Runner-Up: Bernardo Bertolucci, Il Conformista Runner-Up: Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli , Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini Runner-Up: James Lee Barrett, Peter Bogdanovich , The Last Picture Show Best Original Screenplay Win: Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital Runner-Up: Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro , Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto Runner-Up: Andy Lewis, David P. Lewis , Klute Runner-Up: Herman Raucher, Summer of '42 Runner-Up: Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Bloody Sunday

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