43rd Academy Awards

43rd Academy Awards
04/15/1971 AD won

Best Picture: Patton – Frank McCarthy, producer

• Airport – Ross Hunter, producer
• Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, producers
• Love Story – Howard G. Minsky, producer
• MAS*H – Ingo Preminger, producer

Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton

• Federico Fellini – Fellini Satyricon
• Arthur Hiller – Love Story
• Robert Altman – MAS*H
• Ken Russell – Women in Love

Best Actor: George C. Scott – Patton as General George S. Patton (declined)

• Melvyn Douglas – I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison
• James Earl Jones – The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
• Jack Nicholson – Five Easy Pieces as Robert Eroica Dupea
• Ryan O'Neal – Love Story as Oliver Barrett IV

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson – Women in Love as Gundrun Brangwen

• Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope as Eleanor Backman
• Ali MacGraw – Love Story as Jennifer "Jenny" Cavalleri
• Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter as Rosy Ryan
• Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife as Bettina "Tina" Balser

Best Supporting Actor: John Mills – Ryan's Daughter as Michael

• Richard S. Castellano – Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank Vecchio
• Chief Dan George – Little Big Man as Old Lodge Skins
• Gene Hackman – I Never Sang for My Father as Gene Garrison
• John Marley – Love Story as Phil Cavalleri

Best Supporting Actress Helen Hayes – Airport as Ada Quonsett

• Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces as Rayette Dipesto
• Lee Grant – The Landlord as Joyce Enders
• Sally Kellerman – MAS*H as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
• Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero

Best Original Song Score: Let It Be – Music and Lyrics by The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr

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Lattitude: 34.05° N
Longitude: 118.25° W
Region: North America

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