Rich Picks
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Awards & Top Films

1971

Historical Award Archive

Before Rich Picks — Award selections for 1971 were not recorded. The categories below show nominees and winners from other award organizations.
WonNominee

Top 10 Films of 1971

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FriendsNo award data
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The French ConnectionNo award data
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KotchNo award data
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Fiddler on the RoofNo award data
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The Boy FriendNo award data
6
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The Last Picture ShowNo award data
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Carnal KnowledgeNo award data
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ShaftNo award data
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The HospitalNo award data
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KluteNo award data

Film

Live-Action Feature

The French Connection
Producer: Philip D'Antoni
OscarNBRBAFTA
Fiddler on the Roof
Producer: Norman Jewison
OscarGlobe
The Last Picture Show
Producer: Stephen J. Friedman
OscarNBRBAFTA
A Clockwork Orange
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
OscarBAFTA
Death in Venice
Producer: Luchino Visconti
NBRBAFTA
Nicholas and Alexandra
Producer: Sam Spiegel
OscarNBR
The Boy Friend
GlobeNBR
The Go-Between
Producer: Joseph Losey
NBRBAFTA
A New Leaf
Globe
King Lear
NBR
Kotch
Globe
Macbeth
NBR
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
NBR
Plaza Suite
Globe
Taking Off
Producer: Miloš Forman
BAFTA
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
NBR

International Feature

Claire's Knee
NBR

Documentary

Death of a Legend
Producer: Bill Mason
BAFTA

Directing & Editing

Directing

William Friedkin
The French Connection
OscarGlobeDGA
Fiddler on the Roof
Adapted by John Williams
Oscar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Art Direction: Ernest Archer, John Box, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
Oscar
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett and Alan Maley
Oscar
Fiddler on the Roof
David Hildyard and Gordon K. McCallum
Oscar
The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman based on the book by Robin Moore
Oscar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Freddie Young
Oscar
The French Connection
Gerald B. Greenberg
Oscar
Jane Fonda
Klute
Oscar
Summer of '42
Michel Legrand
Oscar
"Theme from Shaft" from Shaft
Music and Lyrics by Isaac Hayes
Oscar
Fiddler on the Roof
Oswald Morris
Oscar
The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
Oscar
Sentinels of Silence
Robert Amram and Manuel Arango
Oscar
The Crunch Bird
Ted Petok
Oscar
Ken Russell
The Boy Friend
NBR
Ken Russell
The Devils
NBR
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy) in Italian
Vittorio De Sica
Oscar
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green
Oscar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
Oscar
Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
OscarGlobeDGA
Peter Bogdanovich
The Last Picture Show
OscarGlobeDGA
Norman Jewison
Fiddler on the Roof
OscarGlobe
Robert Mulligan
Summer of '42
GlobeDGA
John Schlesinger
Sunday Bloody Sunday
OscarDGA
Tchaikovsky
Adapted by Dimitri Tiomkin
Oscar
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Adapted by Irwin Kostal; Song Score by The Sherman Brothers: Robert B. and Richard M.
Oscar
The Boy Friend
Adapted by Peter Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell
Oscar
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Adapted by Walter Scharf; Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
Oscar
Dodes'ka-den (Japan) in Japanese
Akira Kurosawa
Oscar
Alaska Wilderness Lake
Alan Landsburg
Oscar
Klute
Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
Oscar
The Andromeda Strain
Art Direction: Boris Leven and William H. Tuntke; Set Decoration: Ruby R. Levitt
Oscar
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Art Direction: Peter Ellenshaw and John B. Mansbridge; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman and Emile Kuri
Oscar
Fiddler on the Roof
Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle and Michael Stringer; Set Decoration: Peter Lamont
Oscar
Mary and Queen of Scots
Art Direction: Terence Marsh and Robert Cartwright; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
Oscar
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci based on the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia
Oscar
A Clockwork Orange
Bill Butler
Oscar
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Bill Thomas
Oscar
On Any Sunday
Bruce Brown
Oscar
Ann-Margret
Carnal Knowledge
Oscar
The French Connection
Christopher Newman and Theodore Soderberg
Oscar
Good Morning
Denny Evans and Ken Greenwald
Oscar
The Numbers Start with the River
Donald Wrye
Oscar
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
Oscar
The Policeman (Israel) in Hebrew
Ephraim Kishon
Oscar
Summer of '42
Folmar Blangsted
Oscar
Diamonds Are Forever
Gordon K. McCallum, John W. Mitchell and Alfred J. Overton
Oscar
Adventures in Perception
Han van Gelder
Oscar
Summer of '42
Herman Raucher
Oscar
Tchaikovsky (USSR) in Russian
Igor Talankin
Oscar
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Oscar
The Emigrants (Sweden) in Swedish
Jan Troell
Oscar
Straw Dogs
Jerry Fielding
Oscar
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Jim Danforth and Roger Dicken
Oscar
Mary and Queen of Scots
John Aldred and Bob Jones
Oscar
Mary and Queen of Scots
John Barry
Oscar
Art Is...
Julian Krainin and DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
Oscar
Walter Matthau
Kotch
Oscar
Ra
Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl
Oscar
The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophüls
Oscar
Mary and Queen of Scots
Margaret Furse
Oscar
Vanessa Redgrave
Mary, Queen of Scots
Oscar
Julie Christie
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Oscar
Evolution
Michael Mills
Oscar
What's the Matter with Helen?
Morton Haack
Oscar
"Bless the Beasts, Children" from Bless the Beasts, and Children
Music and Lyrics by Perry Botkin Jr. and Barry De Vorzon
Oscar
Broomsticks and "The Age of Not Believing" from Bedknobs
Music and Lyrics by Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman
Oscar
"All His Children" from Sometimes a Great Notion
Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Oscar
"Life Is What You Make It" from Kotch
Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Oscar
Janet Suzman
Nicholas and Alexandra
Oscar
The French Connection
Owen Roizman
Oscar
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Penelope Gilliatt
Oscar
The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
Oscar
The Selfish Giant
Peter Sander and Murray Shostak
Oscar
Death in Venice
Piero Tosi
Oscar
Kotch
Ralph E. Winters
Oscar
Kotch
Richard Portman and Jack Solomon
Oscar
Nicholas and Alexandra
Richard Rodney Bennett
Oscar
The Last Picture Show
Robert Surtees
Oscar
Somebody Waiting
Sherwood Omens, Hal Riney and Dick Snider
Oscar
Richard Jaeckel
Sometimes a Great Notion
Oscar
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick based on the novel by Anthony Burgess
Oscar
The Rehearsal
Stephen F. Verona
Oscar
The Andromeda Strain
Stuart Gilmore (posthumous nomination) and John W. Holmes
Oscar
Margaret Leighton
The Go-Between
Oscar
George C. Scott
The Hospital
Oscar
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Vittorio Bonicelli and Ugo Pirro based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani
Oscar
Barbara Harris
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Oscar

Editing

Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence
Fiddler on the Roof
BAFTA
Antony Gibbs
Performance
BAFTA
John Carter
Taking Off
BAFTA

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

Gene Hackman
The French Connection
GlobeNBRBAFTA
George C. Scott
The Hospital
GlobeBAFTA
Malcolm McDowell
A Clockwork Orange
Globe
Jack Nicholson
Carnal Knowledge
Globe
Dirk Bogarde
Death in Venice
BAFTA
Albert Finney
Gumshoe
BAFTA
Dustin Hoffman
Little Big Man
BAFTA
Peter Finch
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Globe

Actress in a Leading Role

Irene Papas
The Trojan Women
NBR
Jane Fonda
Klute
BAFTA
Lynn Carlin
Taking Off
BAFTA
Julie Christie
The Go-Between
BAFTA
Nanette Newman
The Raging Moon
BAFTA

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
NBRBAFTA
John Hurt
10 Rillington Place
BAFTA
Ian Hendry
Get Carter
BAFTA
Michael Gough
The Go-Between
BAFTA

Actress in a Supporting Role

Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show
NBRBAFTA
Jane Asher
Deep End
BAFTA
Georgia Engel
Taking Off
BAFTA
Georgia Brown
The Raging Moon
BAFTA

Writing

Screenplay (Original)

Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
OscarGlobeWGA
Penelope Gilliatt
Sunday Bloody Sunday
OscarWGA
Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis, and David Lewis
Klute
OscarGlobeWGA
Herman Raucher
Summer of '42
OscarWGA
Woody Allen and Mickey Rose
Bananas
WGA
Jules Feiffer
Carnal Knowledge
WGA
Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Oscar
John Paxton
Kotch
Globe
Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna
Made for Each Other
WGA
John Hale
Mary, Queen of Scots
Globe
Miloš Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare, and Jon Klein
Taking Off
WGA
Ernest Tidyman
The French Connection
Globe
David Seltzer
The Hellstrom Chronicle
WGA

Screenplay (Adapted)

John Paxton
Kotch
GlobeWGA
Ernest Tidyman
The French Connection
GlobeWGA
Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
Globe
Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
WGA
Elaine May
A New Leaf
WGA
Joseph Stein
Fiddler on the Roof
WGA
Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun
WGA
Andy Lewis
Klute
Globe
Jules Feiffer
Little Murders
WGA
John Hale
Mary, Queen of Scots
Globe
Robert Altman and Brian McKay
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
WGA
Ken Russell
The Boy Friend
WGA
Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
The Last Picture Show
WGA

Visual

Cinematography

Oswald Morris
Fiddler on the Roof
BAFTA
Billy Williams
Sunday Bloody Sunday
BAFTA
Gerry Fisher
The Go-Between
BAFTA

Art Direction

John Box
Nicholas and Alexandra
Production design: John Box
BAFTA
Carmen Dillon
The Go-Between
Production design: Carmen Dillon
BAFTA
Christine Edzard
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Production design: Christine Edzard
BAFTA

Costuming

Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo
Nicholas and Alexandra
BAFTA
John Furniss
The Go-Between
BAFTA
Christine Edzard
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
BAFTA

Sound & Music

Original Score

Isaac Hayes
Shaft
GlobeBAFTA
Michel Legrand
Le Mans
Globe
John P. Hammond
Little Big Man
BAFTA
John Barry
Mary, Queen of Scots
Globe
Michel Legrand
Summer of '42
Globe
Gil Melle
The Andromeda Strain
Globe
Charles Dumont
Trafic
BAFTA

Original Song

Unknown Song
Kotch
Music & lyrics: Johnny Mercer and Marvin Hamlisch
Globe
Unknown Song
Honky
Music & lyrics: Quincy Jones
Globe
Unknown Song
Long Ago Tomorrow
Music & lyrics: Hal David and Burt Bacharach
Globe
Unknown Song
Shaft
Music & lyrics: Isaac Hayes
Globe
Unknown Song
The African Elephant
Music & lyrics: Alan Bergman, Laurence Rosenthal, and Marilyn Bergman
Globe

Sound Mixing

Gordon McCallum and David Hildyard
Fiddler on the Roof
BAFTA
Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys
Sunday Bloody Sunday
BAFTA
Peter Handford
The Go-Between
BAFTA

Sound Editing

Gordon McCallum and David Hildyard
Fiddler on the Roof
BAFTA
Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys
Sunday Bloody Sunday
BAFTA
Peter Handford
The Go-Between
BAFTA