1970 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1970 Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

Airport, Ross Hunter, producer (Universal)

Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, producers (Columbia)

Love Story, Howard G. Minsky, producer (Paramount)

M*A*S*H, Ingo Preminger, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Patton, Frank McCarthy, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

Patton

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Best Actor

Melvyn Douglas, I Never Sang for My Father

James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope

Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces

Ryan O'Neal, Love Story

George C. Scott, Patton

Best Actress

Jane Alexander, The Great White Hope

Glenda Jackson, Women in Love

Ali MacGraw, Love Story

Sarah Miles, Ryan's Daughter

Carrie Snodgress, Diary of a Mad Housewife

Actor in a Supporting Role

Richard Castellano, Lovers and Other Strangers

Chief Dan George, Little Big Man

Gene Hackman, I Never Sang for My Father

John Marley, Love Story

John Mills, Ryan's Daughter

Actress in a Supporting Role

Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces

Lee Grant, The Landlord

Helen Hayes, Airport

Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H

Maureen Stapleton, Airport

Directing

Robert Altman, M*A*S*H

Federico Fellini, Fellini Satyricon

Arthur Hiller, Love Story

Ken Russell, Women in Love

Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton

Writing

Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium	Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father
	Larry Kramer, Women in Love
	Ring Lardner, Jr., MASH*
	George Seaton, Airport
	Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman, Lovers and Other Strangers
Original Screenplay	Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, Patton
	Bob Rafelson and Adrien Joyce, story; Adrien Joyce, screenplay, Five Easy Pieces
	Eric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's
	Erich Segal, Love Story
	Norman Wexler, Joe

Cinematography

Fred Koenekamp, Patton

Ernest Laszlo, Airport

Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda and Masamichi Satoh, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Billy Williams, Women in Love

Freddie Young, Ryan's Daughter

Art Direction

Alexander Golitzen and E. Preston Ames, art direction; Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport

Tambi Larsen, art direction; Darrell Silvera, set decoration, The Molly Maguires

Terry Marsh and Bob Cartwright, art direction; Pamela Cornell, set decoration, Scrooge

Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo, art direction; Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thevenet, set decoration, Patton

Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport

Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day and Taizoh Kawashima, art direction; Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett and Carl Biddiscombe, set decoration, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Sound

Gordon K. McCallum and John Bramall, Ryan's Daughter

Ronald Pierce and David Moriarty, Airport

Murray Spivack and Herman Lewis, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Dan Wallin and Larry Johnson, Woodstock

Douglas Williams and Don Bassman, Patton

Music

Song	*“For All We Know,” Lovers and Other Strangers, Fred Karlin, music; Robb Royer and James Griffin, lyrics*
	“Pieces of Dreams,” Pieces of Dreams, Michel Legrand, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics
	“Thank You Very Much,” Scrooge, Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics
	“Till Love Touches Your Life,” Madron, Riz Ortolani, music; Arthur Hamilton, lyrics
	“Whistling Away the Dark,” Darling Lili, Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
Original Score	Frank Cordell, Cromwell
	Jerry Goldsmith, Patton
	Francis Lai, Love Story
	Henry Mancini, Sunflower
	Alfred Newman, Airport
Original Song Score	The Beatles, Let It Be
	Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics; Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer, adaptation, Scrooge
	Fred Karlin and Tylwyth Kymry, The Baby Maker
	Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics, Darling Lili
	Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter, music; Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez and Al Shean, lyrics; Vince Guaraldi, adaptation score, A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Film Editing

Hugh S. Fowler, Patton

Stuart Gilmore, Airport

Danford B. Greene, M*A*S*H

James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring and Inoue Chikaya, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Thelma Schoonmaker, Woodstock

Costume Design

Donald Brooks and Jack Bear, Darling Lili

Margaret Furse, Scrooge

Edith Head, Airport

Nino Novarese, Cromwell

Bill Thomas, The Hawaiians

Special Visual Effects

A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Alex Weldon, Patton

Short Subjects

Cartoon	The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two (Haboush Company; Goldstone Films)
	Is It Always Right to Be Right? (Stephen Bosustow Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
	The Shepherd (Cameron Guess and Associates; Brandon Films)
Live Action	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (University of Southern California, Department of Cinema; Universal)
	Shut Up…I'm Crying (Robert Siegler Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
	Sticky My Fingers…Fleet My Feet (American Film Institute; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)

Documentary

Short Subject	The Gifts (Robert McBride, producer; Richter-McBride Productions for the Water Quality Office of the Environmental Protection Agency)
	Interviews With My Lai Veterans (Joseph Strick, producer; Laser Film Corp.)
	A Long Way From Nowhere (Bob Aller, producer; Robert Aller Productions)
	Oisin (Vivien Carey and Patrick Carey, producers; Aengus Films)
	Time Is Running Out (Horst Dallmayr and Robert Menegoz, producers; Gesellschaft für bildende Filme)
Feature	Chariots of the Gods (Dr. Harald Reinl, producer; Terra-Filmkunst GmbH)
	Jack Johnson (Jim Jacobs, producer; The Big Fights)
	King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis (Ely Landau, producer; Commonwealth United Corporation Production)
	Say Goodbye (David H. Vowell, producer; David L. Wolper Productions)
	Woodstock (Wadleigh-Maurice Ltd.; Warner Bros.)