1972 Academy Awards – Music (Original Dramatic Score) Winner and Nominees

Summer of ’42

Michel Legrand

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband’s fate in WWII.

Mary, Queen of Scots

John Barry

Nicholas and Alexandra

Richard Rodney Bennett

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

Straw Dogs

Jerry Fielding