1970 (43rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1970 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Picture

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Frank McCarthy, Producer.

Best Actor

George C. Scott in Patton, 20th Century-Fox.

Best Actress

Glenda Jackson in Women in Love, Larry Kramer-Martin Rosen Production; United Artists. (UK)

Actor in a Supporting Role

John Mills in Ryan’s Daughter, Faraway Productions, A.G.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Helen Hayes in Airport, Ross Hunter-Universal Production; Universal.

Directing

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Franklin J. Schaffner.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo; set decoration by Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thevenet.

Cinematography

Ryan’s Daughter, Faraway Productions, A.G.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK) Freddie Young.

Costume Design

Cromwell, Irving Allen, Ltd. Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Nino Novarese.

Documentary

(Feature)

Woodstock, Wadleigh-Maurice Ltd. Production; Warner Bros. Bob Maurice, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Interviews with My Lai Veterans, Laser Film Corporation. Joseph Strick, Producer.

Film Editing

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Hugh S. Fowler.

Foreign Language Film

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Vera Films S.p.A. Production; Columbia. (Italy)

Music

(Original Score)

Love Story, The Love Story Company Production; Paramount. Francis Lai.

(Original Song Score)

Let It Be, Beatles-Apple Production; United Artists. (UK) Music and lyrics by The Beatles.

(Song [Original for the Picture])

For All We Know from Lovers and Other Strangers, ABC Pictures Production; Cinerama. Music by Fred Karlin; lyrics by Robb Royer (aka Robb Wilson) and James Griffin (aka Arthur James).

Short Subjects

(Cartoons)

Is It Always Right to Be Right?, Stephen Bosustow Productions; Lester A. Shoenfeld Films. Nick Bosustow, Producer.

(Live Action)

The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, University of Southern California Department of Cinema; Universal. John Longenecker, Producer.

Sound

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Douglas Williams and Don Bassman.

Special Visual Effects

Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20th Century-Fox. (Japan, USA) A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott.

Writing

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

M*A*S*H, Aspen Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Ring Lardner, Jr.

(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)

Patton, 20th Century-Fox. Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North.

Honorary Award

To Lillian Gish for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures. [ [Statuette]]

To Orson Welles for superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Frank Sinatra

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Ingmar Bergman

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Leonard Sokolow and Edward H. Reichard of Consolidated Film Industries for the concept and engineering of the Color Proofing Printer for motion pictures.

(Class III)

To Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. for the development and introduction of a series of compact tungsten halogen lamps for motion picture production.

To B. J. Losmandy for the concept, design and application of micro-miniature solid state amplifier modules used in motion picture recording equipment.

To Eastman Kodak Company and Photo Electronics Corporation for the design and engineering of an improved video color analyzer for motion picture laboratories.

To Electro Sound Incorporated for the design and introduction of the Series 8000 Sound System for motion picture theatres.