1971 (44th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
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.
Best Picture
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Philip D’Antoni, Producer.Best Actor
Gene Hackman in The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox.Best Actress
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. William Friedkin.Art Direction-Set Decoration
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.Cinematography
Costume Design
Nicholas and Alexandra, A Horizon Pictures Production; Columbia. (UK) Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo.Documentary
(Feature)
(Short Subject)
Sentinels of Silence, Producciones Concord; Paramount. (Mexico, USA) Manuel Arango and Robert Amram, Producers.Film Editing
The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni Production in association with Schine-Moore Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Jerry Greenberg.Foreign Language Film
The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Gianni Hecht Lucari-Arthur Cohn Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, West Germany)Music
(Original Dramatic Score)
(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.Short Subjects
(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.Sound
Fiddler on the Roof, Mirisch-Cartier Productions; United Artists. Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard.Special Visual Effects
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee.Writing
(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.Honorary Award
To Charles Chaplin for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. [ [Statuette]]Scientific or Technical Award
(Class II)
To John N. Wilkinson of Optical Radiation Corporation for the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.(Class III)
To 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.To Photo Research, a Division of Kollmorgen Corporation, for the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.To 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.To 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.To Cinema Products Company for a control motor to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.