1971 (44th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1971. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Philip D’Antoni, Producer.Best Actor
Gene Hackman in The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
George C. Scott in The Hospital, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production in association with Arthur Hiller; United Artists.Best Actress
Vanessa Redgrave in Mary, Queen of Scots, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, USA)Actor in a Supporting Role
Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion, Universal-Newman-Foreman Company Production; Universal.Roy Scheider in The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.Actress in a Supporting Role
Barbara Harris in Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Who Is Harry Kellerman Company Production; Cinema Center Films Presentation; National General Pictures.Directing
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. William Friedkin.Art Direction-Set Decoration
The Andromeda Strain, Universal-Robert Wise Production; Universal. Art direction by Boris Leven and William Tuntke; set decoration by Ruby Levitt.Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Art direction by John B. Mansbridge and Peter Ellenshaw; set decoration by Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman.Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists. Art direction by Robert Boyle and Michael Stringer; set decoration by Peter Lamont.Mary, Queen of Scots, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Art direction by Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright; set decoration by Peter Howitt.Nicholas and Alexandra, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo; set decoration by Vernon Dixon.Cinematography
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Owen Roizman.Costume Design
Death in Venice, Alfa Cinematografica-P.E.C.F. Production; Warner Bros. (Italy, France, USA) Piero Tosi.Mary, Queen of Scots, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Margaret Furse.Nicholas and Alexandra, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK) Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo.Documentary
(Feature)
The Ra Expeditions, Swedish Broadcasting Company; Interwest Film Corporation. (Sweden, Norway) Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers.The Sorrow and the Pity, Television Rencontre-Norddeutscher Rundfunk-Television Swiss Romande; Cinema 5, LTd. (Switzerland, West Germany) Marcel Ophuls, Producer.(Short Subject)
Adventures in Perception, Hans van Gelder Filmproduktie; The Netherlands Information Bureau/Service. (Netherlands) Han van Gelder, Producer.Art Is . . ., Henry Strauss Associates; The Sears Roebuck Foundation. Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers.The Numbers Start with the River, WH Picture; United States Information Agency. Donald Wrye, Producer.Sentinels of Silence, Producciones Concord; Paramount. (Mexico, USA) Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers.Somebody Waiting, Snider Productions; University of California Medical Film Library. Hal Riney, Dick Snider and Sherwood Omens, Producers.Film Editing
The Andromeda Strain, Universal-Robert Wise Production; Universal. Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes.The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Jerry Greenberg.Foreign Language Film
Dodes’ka-den, Toho Company, Ltd.-Yonki no Kai Production. (Japan)The Emigrants, A.B. Svensk Filmindustri Production; Warner Bros. (Sweden)The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Gianni Hecht Lucari-Arthur Cohn Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, West Germany)The Policeman, Ephi-Israeli Motion Picture Studio Production. (Israel)Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Tiomkin-Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union)Music
(Original Dramatic Score)
Mary, Queen of Scots, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, USA) John Barry.Straw Dogs, Talent Associates, Ltd.-Amerbroco Films, Ltd. Production; ABC Pictures Presentation; Cinerama. (UK, USA) Jerry Fielding.(Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Song score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; adaptation score by Irwin Kostal.The Boy Friend, Russflix, Ltd. Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Adaptation score by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell.Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists. Adaptation score by John Williams.Tchaikovsky, Dimitri Tiomkin-Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union) Adaptation score by Dimitri Tiomkin.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Wolper Pictures, Ltd. Production; Paramount. (USA, East Germany, West Germany) Song score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; adaptation score by Walter Scharf.(Song [Original for the Picture])
The Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.All His Children from Sometimes a Great Notion, Universal-Newman-Foreman Company Production; Universal. Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.Bless the Beasts & Children from Bless the Beasts & Children, Columbia. Music and lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.Life Is What You Make It from Kotch, Kotch Company Production; ABC Pictures Presentation; Cinerama. Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Theme from Shaft from Shaft, Shaft Productions, Ltd.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music and lyrics by Isaac Hayes.Short Subjects
(Animated)
The Crunch Bird, Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions; Regency Film Distributing Corporation. Ted Petok, Producer.The Selfish Giant, Potterton Productions; Pyramid Films, Inc. (Canada) Peter Sander and Murray Shostak, Producers.(Live Action)
The Rehearsal, Cinema Verona Production; Schoenfeld Film Distributing Corporation. Stephen F. Verona, Producer.Sentinels of Silence, Producciones Concord; Paramount. (Mexico, USA) Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers.Sound
Diamonds Are Forever, Albert R. Broccoli-Harry Saltzman Production; United Artists. (UK) Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton.Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists. Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard.The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman.Kotch, Kotch Company Production; ABC Pictures Presentation; Cinerama. Richard Portman and Jack Solomon.Mary, Queen of Scots, Hal B. Wallis-Universal Pictures, Ltd. Production; Universal. (UK, USA) Bob Jones and John Aldred.Special Visual Effects
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee.When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Hammer Film Production; Warner Bros. (UK) Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken.Writing
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
The Conformist, Mars Film Produzione, S.p.A.-Marianne Productions; Paramount. (Italy, France, West Germany) Bernardo Bertolucci.The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Ernest Tidyman.The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Gianni Hecht Lucari-Arthur Cohn Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, West Germany) Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli.(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
The Hospital, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production in association with Arthur Hiller; United Artists. Paddy Chayefsky.Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Vera Films S.p.A. Production; Columbia. (Italy) Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro.Honorary Award
To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. [ [Statuette]]Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To John N. Wilkinson of Optical Radiation Corporation for the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.(Class III)
To Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, James R. Rochester and Fenton Hamilton for the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for location lighting in motion picture production.To Photo Research, a Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, for the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.To Robert D. Auguste and Cinema Products Company for the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera.To Producers Service Corporation and Consolidated Film Industries; and to Cinema Research Corporation and Research Products, Inc. for the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems.To Cinema Products Company for a control motor to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.