Academy Awards®
Awards for 1971
Picture
Stanley Kubrick - Producer, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Norman Jewison - Producer, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
* Philip D'Antoni - Producer, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Stephen J. Friedman - Producer, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Sam Spiegel - Producer, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Actor
Peter Finch, SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
* Gene Hackman, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Walter Matthau, KOTCH
George C. Scott, THE HOSPITAL
Topol, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Actress
Julie Christie, MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER
* Jane Fonda, KLUTE
Glenda Jackson, SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Vanessa Redgrave, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Janet Suzman, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Supporting Actor
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
Supporting Actress
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
Director
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 - Story and Screenplay (Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
* Paddy Chayefsky, THE HOSPITAL
Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis, KLUTE
Herman Raucher, SUMMER OF '42
Penelope Gilliatt, SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro, INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION
Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
Stanley Kubrick, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Bernardo Bertolucci, THE CONFORMIST
* Ernest Tidyman, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Foreign Film
DODES'KA-DEN
(Japan)
THE EMIGRANTS
(Sweden)
* THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
(Italy)
THE POLICEMAN
(Israel)
TCHAIKOVSKY
(U.S.S.R.)
Art Direction
Boris Leven - Art Direction, William Tuntke - Art Direction, Ruby Levitt - Set Decoration, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
John B. Mansbridge - Art Direction, Peter Ellenshaw - Art Direction, Emile Kuri - Set Decoration, Hal Gausman - Set Decoration, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Robert Boyle - Art Direction, Michael Stringer - Art Direction, Peter Lamont - Set Decoration, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Terence Marsh - Art Direction, Robert Cartwright - Art Direction, Peter Howitt - Set Decoration, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
* John Box - Art Direction, Ernest Archer - Art Direction, Jack Maxsted - Art Direction, Gil Parrondo - Art Direction, Vernon Dixon - Set Decoration, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Cinematography
* Oswald Morris, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Owen Roizman, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Robert L. Surtees, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Freddie Young, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Robert L. Surtees, SUMMER OF '42
Costume Design
Bill Thomas, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Piero Tosi, DEATH IN VENICE
Margaret Furse, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
* Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo, NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Morton Haack, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?
Documentary Feature
Alan Landsburg - Producer, ALASKA WILDERNESS LAKE
* Walon Green - Producer, THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE
Bruce Brown - Producer, ON ANY SUNDAY
Lennart Ehrenborg - Producer, Thor Heyerdahl - Producer, THE RA EXPEDITIONS
Marcel Ophüls - Producer, THE SORROW AND THE PITY
Documentary Short Subject
Hans van Gelder - Producer, ADVENTURES IN PERCEPTION
Julian Krainin - Producer, DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. - Producer, ART IS...
Donald Wrye - Producer, THE NUMBERS START WITH THE RIVER
* Manuel Arango - Producer, Robert Amram - Producer, SENTINELS OF SILENCE
Hal Riney - Producer, Dick Snider - Producer, Sherwood Omens - Producer, SOMEBODY WAITING
Film Editing
Stuart Gilmore, John W. Holmes, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Bill Butler, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
* Jerry Greenberg, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Ralph E. Winters, KOTCH
Folmar Blangsted, SUMMER OF '42
Music - Original Dramatic Score
(formerly Original 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
Music - Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score
(formerly Original Song Score)
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Greenwell, THE BOY FRIEND
* John Williams, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Dimitri Tiomkin, TCHAIKOVSKY
Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Walter Scharf, WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Music - Song (Original to the Picture)
Richard M. Sherman - Music & Lyrics, Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyrics, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
"The Age of Not Believing"
Henry Mancini - Music, Alan Bergman - Lyrics, Marilyn Bergman - Lyrics, SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
"All His Children"
Barry DeVorzon - Music & Lyrics, Perry Botkin, Jr. - Music & Lyrics, BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN
"Bless the Beasts and Children"
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyrics, KOTCH
"Life Is What You Make It"
* Isaac Hayes - Music & Lyrics, SHAFT
"Theme from SHAFT"
Short Subjects - Animated Films
(formerly Cartoons)
* Ted Petok - Producer, THE CRUNCH BIRD
Michael Mills - Producer, EVOLUTION
Peter Sander - Producer, Murray Shostak - Producer, THE SELFISH GIANT
Short Subjects - Live Action Films
(formerly Live Action Subjects)
Denny Evans - Producer, Ken Greenwald - Producer, GOOD MORNING
Stephen F. Verona - Producer, THE REHEARSAL
* Manuel Arango - Producer, Robert Amram - Producer, SENTINELS OF SILENCE
Sound
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell, Alfred J. Overton, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
* Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Theodore Soderberg, Christopher Newman, THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Richard Portman, Jack Solomon, KOTCH
Bob Jones, John Aldred, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Sound Effects
This award discontinued 1968-1981.
Special Visual Effects
* Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Jim Danforth, Roger Dicken, WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1971.
Class II (Plaque)
* John N. Wilkinson (Optical Radiation Corporation)
For the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture project.
Class III (Citation)
* Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, James R. Rochester, Fenton Hamilton, For the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for location lighting in motion picture production.
* Photo Research Division of the Kollmorgen Corporation, For the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.
* Robert D. Auguste, Cinema Products Company, For the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera.
* Producers Service Corporation, Consolidated Film Industries, Cinema Research Corporation, Research Products Inc.
For the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems.
* Cinema Products Company, For a control to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.
Honorary and Other Awards
* Sir Charles Chaplin, For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. Winner presented a Statuette.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1971.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1971.