And the Winner Still Is Season 3: The 1972 Oscars

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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….

They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from the year.

This episode, they discuss the 1972 Oscars, including Best Picture winner, The Godfather. They’re joined by special gust Justin Mancini of the CinemaJoes podcast as they discuss whether the film deserves its reputation as “the Italian Gone with the Wind.” They also discuss the film’s legendary sequels, sexy stars, and some other films from this legendary year that (may) be just as good as the iconic gangster movie.

The other nominees for Picture that year were The Emigrants, Cabaret, Sounder and Deliverance.

For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1972 Oscars were:

Best Director:

Bob Fosse – Cabaret
John Boorman – Deliverance
Jan Troell – The Emigrants
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Sleuth

Best Actor:

Marlon Brando – The Godfather
Michael Caine – Sleuth
Laurence Olivier – Sleuth
Peter O’Toole – The Ruling Class
Paul Winfield – Sounder

Best Actress:

Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
Diana Ross – Lady Sings the Blues
Maggie Smith – Travels with My Aunt
Cicely Tyson – Sounder
Liv Ullmann – The Emigrants

Best Supporting Actor:

Joel Grey – Cabaret
Eddie Albert – The Heartbreak Kid
James Caan – The Godfather
Robert Duvall – The Godfather
Al Pacino – The Godfather

Best Supporting Actress:

Eileen Heckart – Butterflies Are Free
Jeannie Berlin – The Heartbreak Kid
Geraldine Page – Pete ‘n’ Tillie
Susan Tyrrell – Fat City
Shelly Winters – The Poseidon Adventure

Listen to the previous episode here