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	1971

Academy Awards, USA: 1971

Oscar

Date:	15 April
Host:	(none)
Location:	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Frank McCarthy (II)
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Ross Hunter (I) Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Bob Rafelson; Richard Wechsler (I) Love Story (1970) - Howard G. Minsky MASH (1970) - Ingo Preminger

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - George C. Scott - Refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not feel himself to be in any competition with other actors. - Frank McCarthy (II), the film's producer, accepted the award on Scott's behalf at the ceremony, but returned it to the Academy the next day in keeping with Scott's wishes.
Other Nominees:
	Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Jack Nicholson I Never Sang for My Father (1970) - Melvyn Douglas Love Story (1970) - Ryan O'Neal The Great White Hope (1970) - James Earl Jones

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Women in Love (1969) - Glenda Jackson - Glenda Jackson was not present at the awards ceremony. Juliet Mills accepted the award on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Carrie Snodgress Love Story (1970) - Ali MacGraw Ryan's Daughter (1970/I) - Sarah Miles (I) The Great White Hope (1970) - Jane Alexander (I)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Ryan's Daughter (1970/I) - John Mills (I)
Other Nominees:
	I Never Sang for My Father (1970) - Gene Hackman Little Big Man (1970) - Chief Dan George Love Story (1970) - John Marley Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Richard S. Castellano

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Airport (1970) - Helen Hayes (I) - Helen Hayes was not present at the awards ceremony. Rosalind Russell accepted the award on her behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Maureen Stapleton Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Karen Black (I) MASH (1970) - Sally Kellerman The Landlord (1970) - Lee Grant (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Franklin J. Schaffner - Franklin Schaffner was not present at the awards ceremony. Karl Malden accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Fellini - Satyricon (1969) - Federico Fellini Love Story (1970) - Arthur Hiller MASH (1970) - Robert Altman (I) Women in Love (1969) - Ken Russell (I)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	MASH (1970) - Ring Lardner Jr.
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - George Seaton (I) I Never Sang for My Father (1970) - Robert Anderson (VII) Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Joseph Bologna; David Zelag Goodman; Renée Taylor Women in Love (1969) - Larry Kramer (I)

Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Francis Ford Coppola; Edmund H. North - Francis Ford Coppola was not present at the awards ceremony.
Other Nominees:
	Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Bob Rafelson (story); Carole Eastman (screenplay/story) (as Adrien Joyce) Joe (1970) - Norman Wexler Love Story (1970) - Erich Segal Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) - Eric Rohmer

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Ryan's Daughter (1970/I) - Freddie Young
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Ernest Laszlo Patton (1970) - Fred J. Koenekamp Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Charles F. Wheeler; Osamu Furuya; Shinsaku Himeda; Masamichi Satoh Women in Love (1969) - Billy Williams (III)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Urie McCleary; Gil Parrondo; Antonio Mateos (I); Pierre-Louis Thévenet
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Alexander Golitzen; E. Preston Ames; Jack D. Moore; Mickey S. Michaels Scrooge (1970) - Terence Marsh; Robert Cartwright; Pamela Cornell The Molly Maguires (1970) - Tambi Larsen; Darrell Silvera Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Jack Martin Smith; Yoshirô Muraki; Richard Day (I); Taizô Kawashima; Walter M. Scott; Norman Rockett; Carl Biddiscombe

Best Costume Design


Winner:
	Cromwell (1970) - Vittorio Nino Novarese
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Edith Head Darling Lili (1970) - Donald Brooks; Jack Bear Scrooge (1970) - Margaret Furse The Hawaiians (1970) - Bill Thomas (I)

Best Sound


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Douglas O. Williams; Don J. Bassman
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Ronald Pierce; David H. Moriarty Ryan's Daughter (1970/I) - Gordon K. McCallum; John Bramall Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - Murray Spivack; Herman Lewis Woodstock (1970) - Dan Wallin; L.A. Johnson (I)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Patton (1970) - Hugh S. Fowler
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Stuart Gilmore MASH (1970) - Danford B. Greene Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - James E. Newcom; Pembroke J. Herring; Shinya Inoue (I) Woodstock (1970) - Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects


Winner:
	Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - A.D. Flowers; L.B. Abbott
Other Nominees:
	Patton (1970) - Alex Weldon

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) - Fred Karlin (music); Robb Royer (lyrics); Jimmy Griffin (I) (lyrics) - For the song "For All We Know".
Other Nominees:
	Darling Lili (1970) - Henry Mancini (music); Johnny Mercer (lyrics) - For the song "Whistling Away the Dark". Madron (1970) - Riz Ortolani (music); Arthur Hamilton (lyrics) - For the song "Till Love Touches Your Life". Pieces of Dreams (1970) - Michel Legrand (I) (music); Alan Bergman (I) (lyrics); Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) - For the song "Pieces of Dreams". Scrooge (1970) - Leslie Bricusse - For the song "Thank You Very Much".

Best Music, Original Score


Winner:
	Love Story (1970) - Francis Lai
Other Nominees:
	Airport (1970) - Alfred Newman Cromwell (1970) - Frank Cordell (II) I girasoli (1970) - Henry Mancini Patton (1970) - Jerry Goldsmith

Best Music, Original Song Score


Winner:
	Let It Be (1970) - Paul McCartney; John Lennon (I); George Harrison (I); Ringo Starr - To "The Beatles". - The Beatles were not present at the awards ceremony. Quincy Jones accepted the award on their behalf.
Other Nominees:
	A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969) - Rod McKuen; John Scott Trotter; Bill Melendez; Alan Shean; Vince Guaraldi Darling Lili (1970) - Henry Mancini; Johnny Mercer Scrooge (1970) - Leslie Bricusse; Ian Fraser (I); Herbert W. Spencer The Baby Maker (1970) - Fred Karlin; Tylwyth Kymry

Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects


Winner:
	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) - John Longenecker
Other Nominees:
	Shut Up... I'm Crying (1970) - Robert Siegler (I) Sticky My Fingers... Fleet My Feet (1970) - John D. Hancock

Best Short Subject, Cartoons


Winner:
	Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970) - Nick Bosustow
Other Nominees:
	The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two (1970) - Robert Mitchell (II); Dale Case The Shepherd (1970) - Cameron Guess

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1971) - Joseph Strick
Other Nominees:
	A Long Way from Nowhere (1970) - Bob Aller Oisin (1970) - Vivien Carey; Patrick Carey (I) The Gifts (1970) - Robert D. McBride Time Is Running Out (1970) - Horst Dallmayr; Robert Ménégoz

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Woodstock (1970) - Bob Maurice
Other Nominees:
	Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (1970) - Harald Reinl Jack Johnson (1970) - Jim Jacobs (I) King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) - Ely A. Landau Say Goodbye (1971) - David H. Vowell

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970) - Italy
Other Nominees:
	Erste Liebe (1970) - Switzerland Hoa-Binh (1970) - France Paix sur les champs (1970) - Belgium Tristana (1970) - Spain

Honorary Award


Awarded to:
	Lillian Gish - For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures. Orson Welles - For superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures. - Orson Welles was not present at the awards ceremony. His acceptance speech was pre-recorded.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Awarded to:
	Ingmar Bergman

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award


Awarded to:
	Frank Sinatra

Academy Award of Merit


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winner:
	Leonard Sokolow (Consolidated Film Industries); Edward H. Reichard (Consolidated Film Industries) - For the concept and engineering of the Color Proofing Printer for motion pictures.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Eastman Kodak Co.; Photo Electronics Corp. - For the design and engineering of an improved video color analyzer for motion picture laboratories. Electro Sound Inc. - For the design and introduction of the Series 8000 Sound System for motion picture theatres. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. - For the development and introduction of a series of compact tungsten halogen lamps for motion picture production. B.J. Losmandy - For the concept, design and application of micro-miniature solid state amplifier modules used in motion picture recording equipment.