The Exorcist (Friedkin)
The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann)
The Sting (Hill)
The Paper Chase (Bridges)
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich)
Serpico (Lumet)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
The Last Detail (Ashby)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
Don't Look Now (Roeg)

State of Siege (Costa-Gavras)
Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
The New Land (Troell)
Day for Night (Truffaut)

Best

English Language Film - *The Exorcist
Foreign Film - *(1) State of Siege; (2) Last Tango in Paris
Director - William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
Original Screenplay - The Sting (David S. Ward)
Screenplay Based on Other Source - None
Cinematography - Last Tango in Paris (Storaro)
Film Editing - The Exorcist
Music Score - State of Siege (Theodorakis)

Actor - Marlon Brando (Last Tango in Paris)
Others - Al Pacino (Serpico); Robert Ryan (The Iceman Cometh); Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail); Gene Hackman (Scarecrow); Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets).

Actress - none
Those considered - Barbra Streisand (The Way We Were); Liv Ullmann (The New Land); Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon); Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class); Elaine Heilveil (Payday).

* Winner by default due to lack of outstanding films in 1973.