Oscar Winners at 44th Academy Awards
The 44th Academy Awards honors include Best Picture The French Connection produced by Phi lip D Antoni. Jane Fonda wins Best Actress for Klute and Gene Hackman Best Actor. Cloris Leachman wins Best Supporting Actress for The Last Picture Show with Ben Johnson as Best Supporting Actor. Other winners include Theme from Shaft for Best Song, The Garden of the Finzi Continis as Best Foreign Language Film, William Friedkin for Best Director, Oswald Morris for Fiddler on the Roof, and multiple craft awards for The French Connection, The Last Picture Show, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Sentinels of Silence, The Hellstrom Chronicle, Nicholas and Alexandra, and more.
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Almanac notes events and birthdays for April 11, 1972
On this day in history Jackie Robinson broke color barrier in 1947 with a Dodgers exhibition against the Yankees. Guam based B52s bombed Vietnam in 1966. Johnson ordered 24,500 reservists in 1968. Apollo 13 headed to moon in 1970 but aborted after tank explosion. Stanford Medical Center reports 42nd heart transplant with 16 survivors.
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