Laurel Awards: 1971

Golden Laurel

Date:

24 March

Best Picture


Placings:
	1. Patton (1970) 2. MASH (1970) 3. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Other Nominees:
	Love Story (1970) - 4th place. Airport (1970) - 5th place. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - 6th place. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - 7th place. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - 8th place. Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - 9th place. Little Big Man (1970) - 10th place.

Best Supporting Performance, Male


Placings:
	1. Little Big Man (1970) - Chief Dan George 2. Patton (1970) - Karl Malden 3. Airport (1970) - George Kennedy (I)
Other Nominees:
	Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Richard S. Castellano - 4th place. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Trevor Howard (I) - 5th place.

Best Supporting Performance, Female


Placings:
	1. Airport (1970) - Helen Hayes (I) 2. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Karen Black (I) 3. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Lois Smith (I)
Other Nominees:
	Landlord, The (1970) - Lee Grant (I) - 4th place. Man Called Horse, A (1970) - Judith Anderson (I) - 4th place.

Best Director


Placings:
	1. Mike Nichols (I) 2. David Lean (I) 3. Arthur Penn
Other Nominees:
	John Frankenheimer - 4th place. Franco Zeffirelli - 5th place. John Cassavetes - 6th place. Federico Fellini - 7th place. John Schlesinger (I) - 8th place. Roman Polanski - 9th place. Robert Altman (I) - 10th place.

Best Producer-Director


Placings:
	1. Alfred Hitchcock (I) 2. Bob Rafelson 3. Robert Wise (I)
Other Nominees:
	Billy Wilder - 4th place. Otto Preminger - 5th place. Stanley Kubrick - 6th place. Fred Zinnemann - 7th place. William Wyler - 8th place. Elia Kazan - 9th place. Stanley Kramer - 10th place.

Best Cinematographer


Placings:
	1. Patton (1970) - Fred J. Koenekamp 2. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Freddie Young 3. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - L�szl� Kov�cs (I)
Other Nominees:
	Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Charles F. Wheeler; Shinsaku Himeda; Masamichi Satoh; Osamu Furuya - 4th place. Love Story (1970) - Richard C. Kratina - 5th place.

Best Foreign Film


Placings:
	1. Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) 2. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) 3. Enfant sauvage, L' (1970)
Other Nominees:
	Passager de la pluie, Le (1970) - 4th place. Clan des Siciliens, Le (1969) - 5th place.

Star of Tomorrow, Male


Placings:
	1. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Christopher Jones (I) 2. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Frank Langella 3. Boys in the Band, The (1970) - Cliff Gorman
Other Nominees:
	Boys in the Band, The (1970) - Leonard Frey - 4th place. Virgin and the Gypsy, The (1970) - Franco Nero - 5th place. Brewster McCloud (1970) - Bud Cort - 6th place. Strawberry Statement, The (1970) - Bruce Davison - 7th place. End of the Road (1970) - Stacy Keach - 8th place. House of Dark Shadows (1970) - Jonathan Frid - 9th place. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) - Martin Potter (I) - 10th place.

Star, Male


Placings:
	1. Dustin Hoffman 2. George C. Scott 3. Elliott Gould
Other Nominees:
	Paul Newman (I) - 4th place. Steve McQueen (I) - 5th place. Lee Marvin - 6th place. John Wayne (I) - 7th place. Alan Arkin - 8th place. Jack Nicholson - 9th place. Clint Eastwood - 10th place.

Best Comedy Performance, Male


Placings:
	1. MASH (1970) - Elliott Gould 2. MASH (1970) - Donald Sutherland (I) 3. Little Big Man (1970) - Dustin Hoffman
Other Nominees:
	Scrooge (1970) - Albert Finney - 4th place. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Richard Benjamin (I) - 5th place.

Star of Tomorrow, Female


Placings:
	1. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Carrie Snodgress 2. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Karen Black (I) 3. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Susan Anspach
Other Nominees:
	Virgin and the Gypsy, The (1970) - Joanna Shimkus - 4th place. Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) - Judy Pace - 5th place. Landlord, The (1970) - Diana Sands - 6th place. Where's Poppa? (1970) - Trish Van Devere - 7th place. Great White Hope, The (1970) - Jane Alexander (I) - 8th place. Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) - Lauren Hutton - 9th place. Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, The (1970) - Holly Near - 10th place.

Star, Female


Placings:
	1. Katharine Hepburn 2. Barbra Streisand 3. Joanne Woodward (I)
Other Nominees:
	Ali MacGraw - 4th place. Katharine Ross (I) - 5th place. Elizabeth Taylor (I) - 6th place. Sophia Loren - 7th place. Jacqueline Bisset - 8th place. Natalie Wood (I) - 9th place. Julie Andrews (I) - 10th place.

Best Dramatic Performance, Male


Placings:
	1. Patton (1970) - George C. Scott 2. Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Jack Nicholson 3. Love Story (1970) - Ryan O'Neal
Other Nominees:
	Catch-22 (1970) - Alan Arkin - 4th place. I Never Sang for My Father (1970) - Melvyn Douglas - 5th place.

Best Producer


Placings:
	1. M.J. Frankovich 2. Ross Hunter (I) 3. Walter Mirisch
Other Nominees:
	Hal B. Wallis - 4th place. Carlo Ponti - 5th place. Darryl F. Zanuck - 6th place. Ingo Preminger - 7th place. Sam Spiegel (I) - 8th place. Carl Foreman (I) - 8th place. Elmo Williams - 10th place.

Best Composer


Placings:
	1. Patton (1970) - Jerry Goldsmith 2. Love Story (1970) - Francis Lai 3. Airport (1970) - Alfred Newman
Other Nominees:
	Darling Lili (1970) - Henry Mancini - 4th place. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Maurice Jarre (I) - 5th place.

Best Comedy Performance, Female


Placings:
	1. MASH (1970) - Sally Kellerman 2. Owl and the Pussycat, The (1970) - Barbra Streisand 3. Out of Towners, The (1970) - Sandy Dennis (I)
Other Nominees:
	There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) - Goldie Hawn - 4th place. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) - Shirley MacLaine - 5th place.

Best Dramatic Performance, Female


Placings:
	1. Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Carrie Snodgress 2. Ryan's Daughter (1970) - Sarah Miles (I) 3. Love Story (1970) - Ali MacGraw
Other Nominees:
	Grasshopper, The (1970) - Jacqueline Bisset - 4th place. Women in Love (1969) - Glenda Jackson - 5th place.

Best Action Performance


Placings:
	1. Chisum (1970) - John Wayne (I) 2. Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) - Robert Redford (I) 3. McKenzie Break, The (1970) - Brian Keith (I) Monte Walsh (1970) - Lee Marvin Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) - Clint Eastwood