Academy Awards 1971
Overview of all award-winning films
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The 1971 Academy Awards took place on April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . It was the 43rd Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case the films from 1970.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory |
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Movie | N | S. |
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Airport | 10 | 1 |
Patton - rebel in uniform | 10 | 7th |
Love story | 7th | 1 |
M * A * S * H | 5 | 1 |
Torah! Torah! Torah! | 5 | 1 |
Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself | 4th | 0 |
Loving women | 4th | 1 |
Ryan's daughter | 4th | 2 |
Scrooge | 4th | 0 |
Darling Lili | 3 | 0 |
No song for my father | 3 | 0 |
Lovers and other strangers | 3 | 1 |
Woodstock | 3 | 1 |
Cromwell - War to the King | 2 | 1 |
The great white hope | 2 | 0 |
Moderation
There was no official moderator that year.
Winners and nominations
Best movie
presented by Steve McQueen
Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton) - Frank McCarthy
- Airport - Ross Hunter
- Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself (Five Easy Pieces) - Bob Rafelson , Richard Wechsler
- Love Story - Howard G. Minsky
- M * A * S * H - Ingo Preminger
Best director
presented by Janet Gaynor and Ryan O'Neal
Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Robert Altman - M * A * S * H
- Federico Fellini - Fellini's Satyricon (Fellini - Satyricon)
- Arthur Hiller - Love Story
- Ken Russell - Women in Love (Women in Love)
Best Actor
presented by Goldie Hawn
George C. Scott - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Melvyn Douglas - No song for my father (I Never Sang for My Father)
- James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope (The Great White Hope)
- Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces - A man looking at himself (Five Easy Pieces)
- Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
Best main actress
presented by Walter Matthau
Glenda Jackson - Women in Love (Women in Love)
- Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope (The Great White Hope)
- Ali MacGraw - Love Story
- Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's Daughter)
- Carrie Snodgress - Diary of adultery (Diary of a Mad Housewife)
Best supporting actor
presented by Maggie Smith
John Mills - Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's Daughter)
- Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers (Lovers and Other Strangers)
- Chief Dan George - Little Big Man
- Gene Hackman - No song for my father (I Never Sang for My Father)
- John Marley - Love Story
The best supporting actress
presented by Gig Young
- Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces - A man looking at himself (Five Easy Pieces)
- Lee Grant - The homeowner (The Landlord)
- Sally Kellerman - M * A * S * H
- Maureen Stapleton - Airport
Best adapted script
presented by Harry Belafonte and Eva Marie Saint
Ring Lardner junior - M * A * S * H
- Robert Anderson - No song for my father (I Never Sang for My Father)
- Joseph Bologna , David Zelag Goodman , Renée Taylor - Lovers and Other Strangers (Lovers and Other Strangers)
- Larry Kramer - Women in Love (Women in Love)
- George Seaton - Airport
Best original script
presented by Sarah Miles and George Segal
Francis Ford Coppola , Edmund H. North - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Carole Eastman , Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces - A man looking at himself (Five Easy Pieces)
- Éric Rohmer - My Night with Maud (Ma nuit chez Maud)
- Erich Segal - Love Story
- Norman Wexler - Joe - Revenge For America (Joe)
Best camera
presented by Geneviève Bujold and James Earl Jones
Freddie Young - Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's Daughter)
- Osamu Furuya , Sinsaku Himeda , Masamichi Satoh , Charles F. Wheeler - Torah! Torah! Torah!
- Fred J. Koenekamp - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Ernest Laszlo - Airport
- Billy Williams - Women in Love (Women in Love)
Best production design
presented by Petula Clark
Antonio Mateos , Urie McCleary , Gil Parrondo , Pierre-Louis Thévenet - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- E. Preston Ames , Alexander Golitzen , Mickey S. Michaels , Jack D. Moore - Airport
- Carl Biddiscombe , Richard Day , Taizô Kawashima , Norman Rockett , Walter M. Scott , Jack Martin Smith , Muraki Yoshirō - Tora! Torah! Torah!
- Robert Cartwright , Pamela Cornell , Terence Marsh - Scrooge
- Tambi Larsen , Darrell Silvera - Cursed Until Judgment Day (The Molly Maguires)
Best costume design
presented by Merle Oberon
Vittorio Nino Novarese - Cromwell - War on the King
- Jack Bear , Donald Brooks - Darling Lili
- Margaret Furse - Scrooge
- Edith Head - Airport
- Bill Thomas - Ruler of the Island (The Hawaiians)
Best Score (Original Score)
presented by Joan Blondell and Glen Campbell
- Frank Cordell - Cromwell - War on the King
- Jerry Goldsmith - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Henry Mancini - Sunflowers (I Girasoli)
- Alfred Newman - Airport
Best Score (Original Song Score)
presented by Joan Blondell and Glen Campbell
George Harrison , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr - Let It Be
- Vince Guaraldi , Rod McKuen , Bill Melendez , Al Shean , John Scott Trotter - Charlie Brown and his friends (A Boy Named Charlie Brown)
- Fred Karlin , Marsha Karlin - $ 100 more if it's a boy (The Baby Maker)
- Leslie Bricusse , Ian Fraser , Herbert W. Spencer - Scrooge
- Henry Mancini , Johnny Mercer - Darling Lili
Best song
presented by Joan Blondell and Glen Campbell
" For All We Know " from Lovers and Other Strangers (Lovers and Other Strangers) - Jimmy Griffin , Fred Karlin , Robb Royer
- "Pieces of Dreams" from The mistress of the priest (Pieces of Dreams) - Alan Bergman , Marilyn Bergman , Michel Legrand
- “Thank You Very Much” from Scrooge - Leslie Bricusse
- "Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron - Arthur Hamilton , Riz Ortolani
- "Whistling Away the Dark" from Darling Lili - Henry Mancini , Johnny Mercer
Best cut
presented by Geneviève Bujold and James Earl Jones
Hugh S. Fowler - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- Inoue Chikaya , Pembroke J. Herring , James E. Newcom - Torah! Torah! Torah!
- Stuart Gilmore - Airport
- Danford B. Greene - M * A * S * H
- Thelma Schoonmaker - Woodstock
Best tone
presented by Shirley Jones and John Marley
Don J. Bassman , Douglas O. Williams - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
- John Bramall , Gordon K. McCallum - Ryan's Daughter (Ryan's Daughter)
- LA Johnson , Dan Wallin - Woodstock
- Herman Lewis , Murray Spivack - Torah! Torah! Torah!
- David H. Moriarty , Ronald Pierce - Airport
Best visual effects
presented by Lola Falana and Juliet Prowse
LB Abbott , AD Flowers - Torah! Torah! Torah!
- Alex Weldon - Patton - Rebel in Uniform (Patton)
Best short film
presented by Jim Brown and Sally Kellerman
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy - John Longenecker
Best animated short film
presented by Jim Brown and Sally Kellerman
Is It Always Right to Be Right? - Nick Bosustow
- The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two - Dale Case , Robert Mitchell
- The Shepherd - Cameron Guess
Best Documentary (Short Film)
presented by Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss
Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick
- A Long Way from Nowhere - Bob Aller
- Oisin - Patrick Carey , Vivien Carey
- The Gifts - Robert D. McBride
- Time Is Running Out - Horst Dallmayr , Robert Ménégoz
Best documentary
presented by Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss
- Then my life wasn't in vain - Martin Luther King , (King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery to Memphis) - Ely A. Landau
- Memories of the future - Harald Reinl
- Jack Johnson - Jim Jacobs
- Say goodbye - David H. Vowell
Best foreign language film
presented by Ricardo Montalbán and Jeanne Moreau
Investigations against a citizen above suspicion (Indagin su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) , Italy - Elio Petri
- First love , Switzerland - Maximilian Schell
- Hoa-Binh , France - Raoul Coutard
- Paix sur les champs , Belgium - Jacques Boigelot
- Tristana , Spain - Luis Buñuel
Prizes of honor
Honorary Oscar
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Scientific and Engineering Award
Technical Achievement Award
- Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
- BJ Losmandy
- Eastman Kodak Co. , Photo Electronics Corp.
- Electro Sound Inc.
literature
- Norbert Stresau : The Oscar. All award-winning films, directors and actors since 1929 . 3rd, updated edition. Heyne-Filmbibliothek, No. 198. Heyne, Munich 1996, 607 pages, ISBN 3-453-07872-1
- Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004. The best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004. The best animated films from 2001 to 2004 . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6
Web links
- Oscars 1971 in theInternet Movie Database(English)