Recap / Forty Third Academy Awards

The 43rd Academy Awards

Host: None

Air Date: April 15, 1971

Best Picture

• Patton (winner)
• Airport
• Five Easy Pieces
• Love Story
• M*A*S*H

Best Actor

• George C. Scott - Patton (winner)
• Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang For My Father
• James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope
• Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
• Ryan O'Neal - Love Story

Best Actress

• Glenda Jackson - Women in Love (winner)
• Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
• Ali MacGraw - Love Story
• Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter
• Carrie Snodgress - Diary Of A Mad Housewife

Best Supporting Actor

• John Mills - Ryan's Daughter (winner)
• Richard S Castellano - Lovers And Other Strangers
• Chief Dan George - Little Big Man
• Gene Hackman - I Never Sang For My Father
• John Marley - Love Story

Best Supporting Actress

• Helen Hayes - Airport (winner)
• Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
• Lee Grant - The Landlord
• Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H
• Maureen Saspleton - Airport

Best Director

• 'Franklin J Schaffner - Patton''
• Federico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon
• Arthur Hiller - Love Story
• Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
• Ken Russell - Women in Love

Best Original Screenplay

• Patton (winner)
• Five Easy Pieces
• Joe
• Love Story
• My Night at Maud's

Best Adapted Screenplay

• M*A*S*H (winner)
• Airport
• I Never Sang For My Father
• Lovers And Other Strangers
• Women in Love

Best Documentary (feature)

• Woodstock (winner)
• Erinnerungen An Die Zukunft
• Jack Johnson
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
• Say Goodbye

Best Documentary (short feature)

• Interviews With My Lai Veterans (winner)
• The Gifts
• Oisin
• Time Is Running Out

Best Short Film (Live-Action)

• The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (winner)
• Shut Up... I'm Crying
• Sticky My Fingers...Fleet My Feet

Best Short Film (cartoon)

• Is It Always Right to Be Right? (winner)
• The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam Part Two
• The Shepherd

Best Foreign Language Film

• Investigation Of A Citizen Suspicion (winner)
• First Love
• Hoa-Binh
• Paix sur les champs
• Tristana

Best Original Score

• Love Story (winner)
• Airport
• Cromwell
• Patton
• Sunflower

Best Original Song Score

• Let It Be (winner)
• The Baby Maker
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• Darling Lili
• Scrooge

Best Original Song

• "For All We Know" - Lovers And Other Strangers (winner)
• "Whistling Away the Dark" - Darling Lili
• "Till Love Touches Your Life" - Madron
• "Pieces of Dreams" - Pieces Of Dreams
• "Thank You Very Much" - Scrooge

Best Sound

• Patton (winner)
• Airport
• Ryan's Daughter
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Woodstruck

Best Costume Design

• Cromwell (winner)
• Airport
• Darling Lili
• The Hawaiians
• Scrooge

Best Art Direction

• Patton (winner)
• Airport
• The Molly Maguires
• Scrooge
• Tora! Tora! Tora!

Best Cinematography

• Ryan's Daughter (winner)
• Airport
• Patton
• Tora! Tora! Tora!

Best Film Editing

• Patton (winner)
• Airport
• M*A*S*H
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Woodstock

Best Special Visual Effects

• Tora! Tora! Tora! (winner)
• Patton

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