Date: April 2, 1974
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- John Houseman for The Paper Chase
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Tatum O’Neal for Paper Moon
- At age 10, the youngest ever winner in a competitive category.
Best Director
- George Roy Hill for The Sting
Best Original or Factual Story & Screenplay
- David S. Ward for The Sting
Best Adapted Screenplay
- William Peter Blatty for The Exorcist
Best Cinematography
- Sven Nykvist for Cries & Whispers
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Henry Bumstead & James W. Payne for The Sting
Best Costume Design
- Edith Head for The Sting
Best Sound
- Robert Knudson & Christopher Newman for The Exorcist
Best Film Editing
- William Reynolds for The Sting
Best Original Song
- Marvin Hamlisch (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), & Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) for “The Way We Were” from The Way We Were
Best Original Dramatic Score
- Marvin Hamlisch for The Way We Were
Best Scoring Adaptation and/or Original Song Score
- Marvin Hamlisch for The Sting
Best Short Subject, Live-Action
- Allan Miller & William Fertik for The Bolero
Best Short Subject, Animated Films
- Frank Mouris for Frank Film
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Julian Krainin & DeWitt Sage for Princeton: A Search for Answers
Best Documentary, Features
- Kieth Merrill for The Great American Cowboy
Best Foreign Language Film
- Day for Night (France)
Honourary Award
- Henri Langlois
- Groucho Marx