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1971 Academy Awards

The 1971 Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, producer (Warner Bros.)

Fiddler on the Roof, Norman Jewison, producer (United Artists)

The French Connection, Philip D'Antoni, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

The Last Picture Show, Stephen J. Friedman, producer (Columbia)

Nicholas and Alexandra, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia)

Best Actor

Peter Finch, Sunday Bloody Sunday

Gene Hackman, The French Connection

Walter Matthau, Kotch

George C. Scott, The Hospital

Topol, Fiddler on the Roof

Gene Hackman, The French Connection

Archive Photos

Best Actress

Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Jane Fonda, Klute

Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday

Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots

Janet Suzman, Nicholas and Alexandra

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show

Leonard Frey, Fiddler on the Roof

Richard Jaeckel, Sometimes a Great Notion

Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

Roy Scheider, The French Connection

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show

Barbara Harris, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between

Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge

Directing

Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show

William Friedkin, The French Connection

Norman Jewison, Fiddler on the Roof

Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange

John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday

Writing

Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium	Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist
	Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
	Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show
	Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
	Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection
Original Screenplay	Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital
	Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Bloody Sunday
	Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis, Klute
	Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
	Herman Raucher, Summer of '42

Cinematography

Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof

Owen Roizman, The French Connection

Robert Surtees, The Last Picture Show

Robert Surtees, Summer of '42

Freddie Young, Nicholas and Alexandra

Art Direction

John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo, art direction; Vernon Dixon, set decoration, Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert Boyle and Michael Stringer, art direction; Peter Lamont, set decoration, Fiddler on the Roof

Boris Leven and William Tuntke, art direction; Ruby Levitt, set decoration, The Andromeda Strain

John B. Mansbridge and Peter Ellenshaw, art direction; Emile Kuri and Hal Gausman, set decoration, Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright, art direction; Peter Howitt, set decoration, Mary, Queen of Scots

Sound

Bob Jones and John Aldred, Mary, Queen of Scots

Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard, Fiddler on the Roof

Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton, Diamonds Are Forever

Richard Portman and Jack Solomon, Kotch

Theodore Soderberg and Christopher Newman, The French Connection

Music

Song	“The Age of Not Believing,” Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics
	“All His Children,” Sometimes a Great Notion, Henry Mancini, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics
	“Bless the Beasts and Children,” Bless the Beasts and Children, Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr., music and lyrics
	“Life Is What You Make It,” Kotch, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
	*“Theme From Shaft,” Shaft, Isaac Hayes, music and lyrics*
Original Dramatic Score	John Barry, Mary, Queen of Scots
	Richard Rodney Bennett, Nicholas and Alexandra
	Jerry Fielding, Straw Dogs
	Isaac Hayes, Shaft
	Michel Legrand, Summer of '42
Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score	Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, song; Walter Scharf, adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
	Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell, The Boy Friend
	Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; Irwin Kostal, adaptation, Bedknobs and Broomsticks
	Dimitri Tiomkin, Tchaikovsky
	John Williams, Fiddler on the Roof

Film Editing

Folmar Blangsted, Summer of '42

Bill Butler, A Clockwork Orange

Stuart Gilmore and John W. Holmes, The Andromeda Strain

Jerry Greenberg, The French Connection

Ralph E. Winters, Kotch

Costume Design

Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo, Nicholas and Alexandra

Margaret Furse, Mary, Queen of Scots

Morton Haack, What's the Matter With Helen?

Bill Thomas, Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Piero Tosi, Death in Venice

Special Visual Effects

Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee, Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Short Subjects

Animated	The Crunch Bird (Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions; Regency Film Distributing Corp.)
	Evolution (National Film Board of Canada; Columbia)
	The Selfish Giant (Potterton Productions; Pyramid Films)
Live Action	Good Morning (E/G Films; Seymour Borde and Associates)
	The Rehearsal (Cinema Verona Production; Schoenfeld Film Distributing Corp.)
	Sentinels of Silence (Producciones Concord; Paramount)

Documentary

Short Subject	Adventures in Perception (Hans van Gelder Filmproduktie; Netherlands Information Service)
	Art Is… (Henry Strauss Associates; Sears, Roebuck Foundation)
	The Numbers Start With the River (WH Picture; U.S. Information Agency)
	Sentinels of Silence (Producciones Concord; Paramount)
	Somebody Waiting (Snider Productions; University of California Medical Film Library)
Feature	Alaska Wilderness Lake (Alan Landsburg, producer; Alan Landsburg Productions)
	The Hellstrom Chronicle (David L. Wolper Productions; Cinema 5, Ltd.)
	On Any Sunday (Bruce Brown-Solar; Cinema 5, Ltd.)
	The RA Expeditions (Swedish Broadcasting Company; Interwest Film Corp.)
	The Sorrow and the Pity (Television Rencontre-Norddeutscher Rundfunk-Television Swiss Romande; Cinema 5, Ltd.)