Academy Awards 1971 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Subject
Best Short Subject (Cartoon)	Best Original Score
Best Original Song Score	Best Song – Original for the Picture
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Special Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• Airport
• Five Easy Pieces
• Love Story
• MASH
• Patton

Best Director

• Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
• Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
• MASH (Robert Altman)
• Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
• Women in Love (Ken Russell)

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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)
• Ryan's Daughter (John Mills)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Airport (Maureen Stapleton)
• Airport (Helen Hayes)
• Five Easy Pieces (Karen Black)
• MASH (Sally Kellerman)
• The Landlord (Lee Grant)

Best Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced

• Five Easy Pieces
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Joe
• Love Story
• Patton

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Airport
• I Never Sang for My Father
• Lovers and Other Strangers
• MASH
• Women in Love

Best Foreign Language Film

• First Love (Switzerland)
• Hoa Binh (France)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy)
• Peace Over the Fields (Belgium)
• Tristana (Spain)

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Documentary Short

• A Long Way from Nowhere
• Interviews with My Lai Veterans
• Oisin
• The Gifts
• Time Is Running Out

Best Live Action Short Subject

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

Best Short Subject (Cartoon)

• Is It Always Right to Be Right?
• The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam
• The Shepherd

Best Original Score

• Airport
• Cromwell
• Love Story
• Patton
• Sunflower

Best Original Song Score

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

Best Song – Original for the Picture

• Darling Lili ("Whistling Away the Dark")
• His Name Was Madron ("Till Love Touches Your Life")
• Lovers and Other Strangers ("For All We Know")
• Pieces of Dreams ("Pieces of Dreams")
• Scrooge ("Thank You Very Much")

Best Sound

• Airport
• Patton
• Ryan's Daughter
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Woodstock

Best Art Direction

• Airport
• Patton
• Scrooge
• The Molly Maguires
• Tora! Tora! Tora!

Best Cinematography

• Airport
• Patton
• Ryan's Daughter
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Women in Love

Best Costume Design

• Airport
• Cromwell
• Darling Lili
• Scrooge
• The Hawaiians

Best Film Editing

• Airport
• MASH
• Patton
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Woodstock

Best Special Visual Effects

• Patton
• Tora! Tora! Tora!