1972 Academy Awards – Music (Original Song) Winner and Nominees

Shaft

Isaac Hayes

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Richard M. Sherman

Bless the Beasts & Children

Barry De Vorzon

Kotch

Marvin Hamlisch

Sometimes a Great Notion

Henry Mancini