The Opening of the Academy Awards: 1974 Oscars

this program is brought to you in living color on NBC the opening and some audio portions were pre-recorded tonight live the 46th annual Academy Award presentation this is the Music Center in Los Angeles California where these crowds have been gathering since dawn today and where the excitement has been building up to this climactic moment the arrival of Hollywood's most glamorous stars for the night ceremony there's Paul Newman with lovely wife Joanne Woodward Vince Carney denominated for bang the drum slowly Diana Ross composer Burt Bacharach and lovely wife Angie Dickinson nominee Paul McCartney and wife Linda there's Jack Lemmon Best Actor nominee for save the tiger rugged Charles Bronson with Jill Ireland talented Walter Matthau the infinity of glamour Raquel Welch venerable Groucho Marx who will be honored on tonight's show Burt Reynolds one of tonight's hosts with Dinah Shore Joe Dre Oscar winner last year for cabaret the original trenchcoat Peter posh Billy Friedkin a nominee for the Exorcist Marcel Marceau perhaps the world's greatest time ladies and gentlemen Liza Minnelli differently songs about my ragtime cowboy Cole Porter wrote a tune called Tom Dick or Harry then there was or Johnny or m1 and Sam to make the pants too long and Jim you remember that clap hands here comes charlie and uh oh and Ben the rat but there's a name that no-one no one's ever used no no to Smith yet has dared to try it this era has me totally confuse but tonight my friend I intend to rectify everybody Oh scoot yeah everybody loves you skirt believe everybody don't you society wants to get the celebrated statuette me bones shivering knees and may I have the envelope please and then the famous piece of his godson and the winner is inches in hunt whatever happens is that a mind I wanna get you're going home with us I'm 1971 the nominees for Best Performance by an actress in a starring role are geneviève Bujold a Jane Fonda for they shoot horses don't they gene Simmons for happy ending Liza Minnelli for the sterile cuckoo and Maggie Smith for the prime of Miss Jean Brodie well I don't have to fit I've got a good feeling about it I mean actually I know that the thing is just not to think about it and I refuse to think about it I will not I can't stop thinking about it I mean first of all man this terrific manager she does divine work and I went to her and she told me that she'd never been wrong once ever and she said that you could actually see me just going right on up there's just top in the box so I mean I don't know where to put it my house I can set it up on them and your winner is simple but I can build Maggie Smith for the prime of Miss Jean Brodie some years of waffle depressing as can be and some years on 1973 the truly talented ladies nominated for Best Performance by an actress are Liza Minnelli in cabaret Diana Ross and Lady Sings the Blues Maggie Smith and traveled with my aunt Cicely Tyson and sounder leave woman in the immigrants the real point is what am I doing here I mean I'm going to lose I'm so sad well I've got a dress it's yellow and it's a gala I mean it's just it's just um and they're gonna show my picture I'm you standing have to smile absolute where's my head and she said not you this your big girl and she's ten years and the winner is liza minnelli for cabaret Oh every fire rose to get shot ramya hug hold tight and who's holding hands with Oscar dragon around Alaska going home with us MA that's the one the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an oscar-winning producer himself mr. Walton Thank You Liza and good evening ladies and gentlemen its traditional at these ceremonies for the president to welcome you on behalf of the Academy and I do so tonight with great pleasure I think it's also traditional for president of the Academy to be asked repeatedly just what it is that the Academy does besides give awards I like to answer this question by simply saying but like all academies it seeks primarily to encourage excellence undoubtedly the best-known way in which it does this is by bestowing its world-renowned Oscar but the Academy also encourages excellence in many other ways it annually presents awards to five outstanding films made by cinema students it supports an internship program which subsidizes young filmmakers while affording them the opportunity of observing outstanding directors it maintains the best and most complete library of Motion Picture material in the world it sponsors various screenings retrospectives and publications it Awards special grants and scholarships and conducts an artisan residence program and Veyron various college campuses and so as you can see the Academy is more than just Oscar night it's a continuing effort to promote the spirit and influence of Oscar the incentive for excellence in motion pictures throughout the ranks of all filmmakers tonight we should like to pause for a moment and remember someone whose devotion to the pursuit of excellence and motion pictures is legendary as a producer myself I take particular pride in dedicating this evening ceremonies to the memory of that pioneer and master producer so many great films such as pride of the Yankees dead end the little foxes dies and dolls and of course watering Heights this evening is for a gentleman who truly gave of himself and in so doing gave us some of the best years of our lives Samuel Goldwyn thank you now ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce our first host of the evening mr. Burt Reynolds uh thank you I know the Oscars are important but I have something more important I have a phone message here or miss st. John from a mr. Kissinger in Acapulco it says that I'll be here for seven more days so if you call your name is Al I want to welcome you to the 46 Annual Academy Awards was a great shock to be picked as one of the hosts for the Oscars not to me but to the Academy I look out there tonight I see a room packed with every star in Hollywood and I can't help thinking if this building should cave in which I think it's doing if this building should cave in the hottest star in Hollywood tomorrow would be Keith Purcell it's an exciting night no Hollywood and I can't help but feel the tension here not yours mine I don't care about yours and I want to tell you something I was thinking about coming over here you got to recognize one thing right now in New York Beverly Hills Bel Air all over the country they're cocktail parties filled with people saying nasty Kaddi snide remarks so they're putting this down about the way we're dressed so unfunny we are how unsophisticated we are and you know where that comes from they haven't been nominated they haven't been invited or they're just too chic to be here so to all you people out there from all of us here that's about as sophisticated and dignified as I'm gonna get folks you want sophistication go to lunch with david niven it's child intestine here yet he is here why uh some some great movies of anomaly this year and one of the favorites is the sting starring that great twosome Paul Newman and Robert Redford the greatest romantic team since Bogart and Bacall well not quite as romantic but prettier I I love the title this thing it reminds me of an old army training film a lot of people have accused me of being jealous of Robert Redford just because he has three gigantic pictures coming out and he's the hottest actor in town but I asked you Bob up there on that mountaintop so perfect I asked you Bob and I'm gonna speak slowly so you can understand me if you're so perfect Bobby why haven't you done Hollywood Squares of course Bob won't be here tonight and he's in pretty good company George see Scott won't be here Marlon Brando won't be here there are a lot of people who won't show up to get what's coming to them speaking to Richard Nixon we're gonna talk about the I'm going to talk about the voting procedures and here to explain how everything is voted on and why I'm not up for anything again is that incredibly incredibly talented star of the Paper Chase mr. Timothy bottoms Thank You Berg good evening okay as in the past this is the time in the show where the voting procedures are explained in great depth hopefully to the satisfaction of everyone it's really very simple and tonight I'm going to try and translate them once and for all all eligible Academy members are asked to vote for nominations for Best Picture of the year the other nominations are made by the members of the various branches of the Academy specialists in their fields costume designers nominate costume designers film editors film editors directors nominate directors writers writers and of course actors nominate other actors if at this point they're not familiar with the potential nominations they can view them at special screening set up by the Academy finally after the nominations are announced all members have the opportunity to vote for all awards merit transmitting their secret ballots directly to the Academy's independent accountants Price Waterhouse & Company where they are tabulated in secrecy when the day of truth arrives representatives of the firm deliver the final outcome in sealed envelopes to this theater where they are handed over to their representative to the presenters in this same sealed envelope everybody says please for and this is the gentlemen in final possession of them mister Robert Ford this is the 46th year these voting procedures have been explained and I feel safe and saying that 46 years from now you'll still be hearing them I hope so thank you very much I think Timothy deserves a another round of applause for having to read that the same people that had Timothy do that want him tomorrow to go on The Today Show and explain the economy I know a lot of people are sitting here tonight a little uptight maybe feeling a little uncomfortable wasn't easy getting your in carpools before we get to the first award they've asked me to talk to you about your Thank You speeches every year they do this and they say keep him short everybody makes them long as a matter of fact two years ago there was a speech done by Cloris Leachman that is going to be released as a 90-minute special so in case you're planning a real surprise for us forget it it's been done we've dug into the archives looked at over 40 years of Oskar shows even back before television and we've chosen these highlights acceptors who who have graced the stage with that certain poise in a plum never losing their dignity during the great emotional moment I mean when it comes to accepting an Oscar you've got some pretty strong acts to follow John Addison for Tom Jones oh I am I am i they gave me the wrong envelope way to the n-double-a-cp hears about this is the Oscar one of the roles are the motion picture roles what's that sweetie in unis I know how excited miss Harris will be ladies and gentlemen I'm the world's greatest Gatecrasher and I just came here to present Bob Hope with his 1938 trophy they are Bob Denver who needs Pricewaterhouse all we needs a doorman thank you very much I wish I could take the name home with me instead of his liver I may have the baby right in here don't let anybody tell you this isn't a terrific thrill I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is on I should say if you're very special thank you oh he's so beautiful whoa eat that birdie hello gorgeous hello dad the winner is George the sky thank you double dutch but my delight as such I be for me you you thank you very much this year we decided to reinstate something we haven't had for a few years the guardians of Oscar so instead of the statues being brought up each time by a couple of unknown gentlemen and rented tuxedos we've got two very talented and attractive ladies to do it this year wasn't my idea but I'm only a host and I'm not going to fight it ladies and gentlemen Oscars Guardians the star of coffee miss Pam Grier and a young lady who starred the motion picture judge Roy Bean Miss Victoria Principal hello hello Victoria ah now for the reason we're all here this year's awards would you like to take it don't take this one to present the first award for Best Short subject is a young man who last year brought his magnetic presents to a couple of outstanding dramatic betrayals and the young lady whose motion picture debut has resulted in an Oscar nomination and has made her one of the most talked-about short subjects of the year mr. Billy Dee Williams and Miss Linda Blair I know a lot of people like to ask you I get the opportunity to do it how did you ever see yourself in Exorcist well I don't like standing in lines you gotta be kidding I guess the devil made me say it nominees for the best achievement and animated short subjects are Frank film Frank Morris producer The Legend of John Henry Nick the susto David Adams producers Politan Ella Manuel lazatti Giulio Giannini producers may we have the envelope please and the winner is Frank film Frank Morris Andy Warhol says that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes right now we'll settle for nine minutes called Frank film Tony Schwartz Karolina all fours Yale school Avadh Harvard's carpenter Center for the visual arts and I thank you very much in live short subjects the nominees are the Bolero Alan Miller and William for tech producers clock maker Richard Gere producer live times nine pen Densham and John Watson producers the envelope please thank you and the winner is the Bolero Alan Miller and William first day a lot of people would be very happy about this kind of an award for good music the National Endowment Chloe Erin the Corporation for Public Broadcasting David Stewart - fantastically imagined at people and Zubin made and the Los Angeles Philharmonic thank you very much there's a lot of fun making it's a lot of fun being here thank you

Channel: Oscars

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Keywords: Academy Award (Award), Burt Reynolds, Pam Grier, Charles Bronson, Liza Minnelli, opening, number, Oscar, Oscars, 1974, Walter Matthau, Paul Newman, Billy Dee Williams, Linda Blair, Short, Film, Subject, win

Id: F3sM_Fn_Q90

Length: 28min 14sec (1694 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2013