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43rd Academy Awards
DateApril 15, 1971
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
Produced by Robert Wise
Directed byRichard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture Patton
Most awardsPatton (7)
Most nominations Airport and Patton (10)
TV in the United States
Network NBC

The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was held on April 15, 1971, and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970. The Awards, without a host for the third consecutive year, were broadcast by NBC for the first time in 11 years.

George C. Scott, winner of Best Actor for Patton, became the first actor to decline an Oscar, having previously protested his nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Hustler ( 1961) and quoted as saying that the Academy Awards were "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." [1] He also maintained that it was "degrading for actors to compete against one another." [2] Co-star Karl Malden agreed, but felt that Scott could have made his denunciation more subtly. [2]

With her Best Supporting Actress win for Airport, Helen Hayes became the first performer to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories (having won Best Actress 38 years before for The Sin of Madelon Claudet). Her win set a record for the biggest gap between acting wins, subsequently broken by Katharine Hepburn (48 years between her first and last wins).

The documentary film Woodstock garnered three Oscar nominations, making it the most nominated documentary film in Oscar history (its record was later tied by Flee, 51 years later).

This was the only time since the 6th Academy Awards that all five nominees for Best Actress were first-time nominees, and was the last time that either lead acting category was entirely composed of new nominees until the 95th Academy Awards. It was also the first time since the 7th Academy Awards in which none of the nominees for the Best Actor had a previous nomination in that category.

As of 2023, this is the most recent ceremony in which the 4 highest-grossing films of the year were nominated for Best Picture (Love Story, Airport, M*A*S*H and Patton).

Winners and nominees

Franklin J. Schaffner, Best Director winner
George C. Scott, Best Actor winner
Glenda Jackson, Best Actress winner
Helen Hayes, Best Supporting Actress winner
Francis Ford Coppola, Best Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced co-winner
The Beatles, Best Original Song Score winners
Robb Royer, Best Original Song co-winner

Nominees were announced on February 23, 1971. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡). [3] [4]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Live Action Short Subject Best Short Subject – Cartoons
Best Original Score Best Original Song Score
Best Song Original for the Picture Best Sound
Best Foreign Language Film Best Costume Design
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing Best Special Visual Effects

Films with multiple wins and nominations

Films that received multiple awards
Wins Film
7 Patton
2 Ryan's Daughter

Academy Honorary Award

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name(s) Role
Shirley Jones
John Marley
Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Maggie Smith Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
John Huston Presenter of the Academy Honorary Award to Orson Welles
Gregory Peck Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Frank Sinatra
Melvyn Douglas Presenter of the Academy Honorary Award to Lillian Gish
Gig Young Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Richard Benjamin
Paula Prentiss
Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Short Subject and Best Documentary Feature
Jim Brown
Sally Kellerman
Presenters of the award for Best Short Subject – Cartoons and Best Live Action Short Subject
Merle Oberon
George Segal
Presenter of the award for Best Costume Design
Lola Falana
Juliet Prowse
Presenters of the award for Best Special Visual Effects
Geneviève Bujold
James Earl Jones
Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing
Petula Clark Presenter of the award for Best Art Direction
Ricardo Montalbán
Jeanne Moreau
Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Joan Blondell
Glen Campbell
Presenters of the award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song Score
Burt Lancaster Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Ingmar Bergman
Burt Bacharach
Angie Dickinson
Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
Janet Gaynor
Ryan O'Neal
Presenters of the award for Best Director
Harry Belafonte
Eva Marie Saint
Presenters of the award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Sarah Miles
George Segal
Presenters of the award for Best Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Produced or Published
Goldie Hawn Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Walter Matthau Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Steve McQueen Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name(s) Role Performed
Glen Campbell Performer "Pieces of Dreams" from Pieces of Dreams
Petula Clark Performer " For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers
Petula Clark
Sally Kellerman
Burt Lancaster
Ricardo Montalbán
Performers "Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge
Lola Falana Performer "Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron
Shirley Jones Performer "Whistling Away the Dark" from Darling Lili

See also

References

  1. ^ TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2006.
  2. ^ a b Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. p. 845. ISBN  0-385-04060-1.
  3. ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select "1970" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
  4. ^ "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.