Oscars 1971 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: Patton!

Nominees:
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH

Best Director!

Winner: Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton!

Nominees:
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
Arthur Hiller - Love Story
Robert Altman - MASH
Federico Fellini - Satyricon

Best Actor!

Winner: George C. Scott, Patton!

Nominees:
Albert Finney - Scrooge
Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces
Ryan O'Neal - Love Story
Donald Sutherland - MASH

Best Actress!

Winner: Ali MacGraw, Love Story!

Nominees:
Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope
Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter
Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: Chief Dan George, Little Big Man!

Nominees:
Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father
Karl Malden - Patton
John Marley - Love Story
John Mills - Ryan's Daughter

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Helen Hayes, Airport!

Nominees:
Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces
Lee Grant - The Landlord
Sally Kellerman - MASH
Maureen Stapleton - Airport

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, Patton!

Nominees:
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces
Norman Wexler - Joe
Erich Segal - Love Story
Eric Rohmer - My Night at Maud's

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Ring Lardner, Jr., MASH!

Nominees:
George Seaton - Airport
Howard Sackler - The Great White Hope
Robert Woodruff Anderson - I Never Sang for My Father
Larry Kramer - Women in Love

Best Documentary Feature!

Winner: Woodstock!

Nominees:
Chariots of the Gods?
Jack Johnson
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Say Goodbye

Best Documentary Short!

Winner: Interviews with My Lai Veterans!

Nominees:
The Gifts
A Long Way from Nowhere
Oisin
Time Is Running Out

Best Live Action Short!

Winner: The Resurrection of Broncho Billy!

Nominees:
Shut Up...I'm Crying
Sticky My Fingers...Fleet My Feet

Best Animated Short!

Winner: Is It Always Right to Be Right?

Nominees:
The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam - Part Two
The Shepherd

Best Original Score!

Winner: Love Story!

Nominees:
Airport
Cromwell
I Girasoli
Patton

Best Original or Adaptation Score!

Winner: Let It Be!

Nominees:
The Baby Maker
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Darling Lili
Scrooge

Best Original Song!

Winner: John Lennon and Paul McCartney - Let It Be, Let It Be!

Nominees:
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - Whistling Away the Dark, Darling Lili
Fred Karlin, Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin - For All We Know, Lovers and Other Strangers
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman - Pieces of Dreams, Pieces of Dreams
Leslie Bricusse - Thank You Very Much, Scrooge

Best Sound Mixing!

Winner: Patton!

Nominees:
Airport
Ryan's Daughter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock

Best Foreign Language Film!

Winner: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion!

Nominees:
First Love
Hoah-Binh
Paix sur les champs
Tristana

Best Costume Design!

Winner: Airport!

Nominees:
Cromwell
Darling Lili
The Hawaiians
Scrooge

Best Art Direction!

Winner: Patton!

Nominees:
Airport
The Molly Maguires
Scrooge
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Best Cinematography!

Winner: Ryan's Daughter!

Nominees:
Airport
Patton
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Women in Love

Best Film Editing!

Winner: Patton!

Nominees:
Airport
MASH
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock

Best Visual Effects!

Winner: Tora! Tora! Tora!

Nominees:
Patton