43rd Academy Awards (1971)
Highlights of 43rd Academy Awards ceremony
The 43rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1970.
The award ceremony was held on 15th April 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Patton won the Best Picture award.
George C. Scott won the Best Actor award for his role in Patton but refused to take the award.
Glenda Jackson won the Best Actess award for her role in Women in Love.
Franklin J. Schaffner won the Best Director award for Patton.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Patton
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH
Best Director
Patton
- Franklin J. Schaffner
Satyricon
- Federico Fellini
Love Story
- Arthur Hiller
MASH
- Robert Altman
Women in Love
- Ken Russell
Best Original Screenplay
Patton
- Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
Five Easy Pieces
- Bob Rafelson
Joe
- Norman Wexler
Love Story
- Erich Segal
My Night at Maud's
- Eric Rohmer
Best Adapted Screenplay
MASH
- Ring Lardner Jr.
Airport
- George Seaton
I Never Sang for My Father
- Robert Woodruff Anderson
Lovers and Other Strangers
- Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman
Women in Love
- Larry Kramer
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Patton
- George C. Scott
Five Easy Pieces
- Jack Nicholson
The Great White Hope
- James Earl Jones
I Never Sang for My Father
- Melvyn Douglas
Love Story
- Ryan O'Neal
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Women in Love
- Glenda Jackson
Diary of a Mad Housewife
- Carrie Snodgress
The Great White Hope
- Jane Alexander
Love Story
- Ali McGraw
Ryan's Daughter
- Sarah Miles
Best Supporting Actor
Ryan's Daughter
- John Mills
I Never Sang for My Father
- Gene Hackman
Little Big Man
- Chief Dan George
Love Story
- John Marley
Lovers and Other Strangers
- Richard S. Castellano
Best Supporting Actress
Airport
- Helen Hayes
Airport
- Maureen Stapleton
Five Easy Pieces
- Karen Black
The Landlord
- Lee Grant
MASH
- Sally Kellerman
Best Art Direction
Patton
- Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Louis Thevenet
Best Cinematography
Ryan's Daughter
- Freddie Young
Best Original Song
Lovers and Other Strangers
- Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer
for "For All We Know"
Best Original Score
Love Story
- Francis Lai
Best Sound Mixing
Patton
- Douglas O. Williams, Don J. Bassman
Best Visual Effects
Tora! Tora! Tora!
- A. D. Flowers, L. B. Abbott
Best Costume Design
Cromwell
- Vittorio Nino Novarese
Best Animated Short Film
Is It Always Right to Be Right?
Best Documentary Feature
Woodstock
Best Documentary Short Subject
Interviews with My Lai Veterans
Best Foreign Language Film
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Best Live Action Short Film
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
Best Film Editing
Patton
- Hugh S. Fowler
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Let It Be
- Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison