46th Academy Awards

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46th Academy Awards
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DateApril 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 awardsThe Sting (7)
Most nominations The Exorcist and The Sting (10)
TV in the United States
Network NBC
Duration3 hours, 23 minutes
Ratings44.7 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.

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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, making him 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

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George Roy Hill, Best Director winner
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Jack Lemmon, Best Actor winner
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Glenda Jackson, Best Actress winner
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John Houseman, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Tatum O'Neal, Best Supporting Actress winner
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David S. Ward, Best Original Screenplay Winner
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William Peter Blatty, Best Adapted Screenplay Winner
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Marvin Hamlisch, Best Original Score winner, Adapted Score winner & Best Original Song co-winner

Nominations announced on February 19, 1974. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). [2]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Animated Short Subject Best Original Dramatic Score
  • Frank Film – Frank Mouris
    • The Legend of John Henry – Nick Bosustow and David Adams
    • PulcinellaEmanuele Luzzati and Guilo Gianini
Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation Best Song
Best Costume Design Best Sound
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing

Streaking incident

The 46th Academy Awards ceremony is perhaps best remembered as the one in which a streaker named Robert Opel ran across the stage naked while flashing a peace sign with his hand. In response, host David Niven jokingly quipped, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?" [3] [4] [5] Terrence O'Flaherty, a columnist from San Francisco, responded by saying that "there's only one trouble with streaking—the wrong people usually do it. The ones who should have removed their clothes were Cher Bono, Twiggy and Elizabeth Taylor". [5]

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

Multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
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
Films that received multiple awards
AwardsFilm
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

NameRole
Hank SimmsAnnouncer 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
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

NameRolePerformed
Henry Mancini Musical arranger and ConductorOrchestral
Liza Minnelli Performer"Oscar"
Academy Awards ChorusPerformers"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 OrchestraPerformersHooray for Hollywood” (orchestral) during the closing credits

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