Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1971 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
Philip D’Antoni, Producer.
Gene Hackman in
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
Jane Fonda in
Klute, Gus Production; Warner Bros.
Ben Johnson in
The Last Picture Show, BBS Productions; Columbia.
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
William Friedkin.
Nicholas and Alexandra, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK) Art direction by
John Box,
Ernest Archer,
Jack Maxsted and
Gil Parrondo; set decoration by
Vernon Dixon.
Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists.
Oswald Morris.
Nicholas and Alexandra, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK)
Yvonne Blake and
Antonio Castillo.
(Feature)
The Hellstrom Chronicle, David L. Wolper Productions; Cinema 5, Ltd.
Walon Green, Producer.
(Short Subject)
Sentinels of Silence, Producciones Concord; Paramount. (Mexico, USA)
Manuel Arango and
Robert Amram, Producers.
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
Jerry Greenberg.
The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Gianni Hecht Lucari-Arthur Cohn Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, West Germany)
(Original Dramatic Score)
Summer of ’42, Robert Mulligan-Richard Alan Roth Production; Warner Bros.
Michel Legrand.
(Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score)
Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists. Adaptation score by
John Williams.
(Song [Original for the Picture])
Theme from Shaft from
Shaft, Shaft Productions, Ltd.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music and lyrics by
Isaac Hayes.
(Animated)
The Crunch Bird, Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Productions; Regency Film Distributing Corporation.
Ted Petok, Producer.
(Live Action)
Sentinels of Silence, Producciones Concord; Paramount. (Mexico, USA)
Manuel Arango and
Robert Amram, Producers.
Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists.
Gordon K. McCallum and
David Hildyard.
(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.
Ernest Tidyman.
(Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
The Hospital, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production in association with Arthur Hiller; United Artists.
Paddy Chayefsky.
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Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. [ [Statuette]]
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John N. Wilkinson of Optical Radiation Corporation for the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.
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Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson,
James R. Rochester and
Fenton Hamilton for the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for location lighting in motion picture production.
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Photo Research, a Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, for the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.
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Robert D. Auguste and
Cinema Products Company for the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera.
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Producers Service Corporation and
Consolidated Film Industries; and to
Cinema Research Corporation and
Research Products, Inc. for the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems.
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Cinema Products Company for a control motor to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.