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Best Picture
 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Hawk Films, Warner Bros. Produced by Stanley Kubrick
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF - Mirisch-Cartier, UA. Produced by Norman Jewison
 THE FRENCH CONNECTION (Won 5 Awards) - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Philip D'Antoni
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW - BBS Productions, Columbia. Produced by Stephen J. Friedman
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA - Horizon, Columbia. Produced by Sam Spiegel
Actor
Peter Finch in SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Gene Hackman in THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Walter Matthau in KOTCH
George C. Scott in THE HOSPITAL
Topol in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Actress
Julie Christie in MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
Jane Fonda in KLUTE
Glenda Jackson in SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Vanessa Redgrave in MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Janet Suzman in NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Leonard Frey in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Richard Jaeckel in SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
Ben Johnson in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Roy Scheider in THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Supporting Actress
Ellen Burstyn in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Barbara Harris in WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?
Cloris Leachman in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Margaret Leighton in THE GO-BETWEEN
Ann-Margret in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
Director
Peter Bogdanovich for THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
William Friedkin for THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Norman Jewison for FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Stanley Kubrick for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
John Schlesinger for SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Writing: Story and Screenplay - Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
Paddy Chayefsky - THE HOSPITAL
Elio Petri & Ugo Pirro - INDAGINE SU UN CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA DI OGNI SOSPETTO (INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION)
Andy Lewis & Dave Lewis - KLUTE
Herman Raucher - SUMMER OF '42
Penelope Gilliatt - SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY
Writing: Screenplay - Based on Material from Another Medium
Stanley Kubrick - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Bernardo Bertolucci - THE CONFORMIST
Ernest Tidyman - THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Ugo Pirro & Vittorio Bonicelli - IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI (THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS)
Larry McMurtry & Peter Bogdanovich - THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Foreign Language Film
DÔ DESU KA DEN (DODES'KA-DEN, Japan)
UTVANDRARNA (THE EMIGRANTS, Sweden)
IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI (THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, Italy)
HA-SHOTER AZULAI (POLICEMAN, Israel)
TCHAIKOVSKY (U.S.S.R.)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Boris Leven & William H. Tuntke - Art Direction, Ruby Levitt - Set Decoration THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
John B. Mansbridge & Peter Ellenshaw - Art Direction, Emile Kuri & Hal Gausman - Set Decoration BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Robert Boyle & Michael Stringer - Art Direction, Peter Lamont - Set Decoration FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Terence Marsh & Robert Cartwright - Art Direction, Peter Howitt - Set Decoration MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted & Gil Parrondo - Art Direction, Vernon Dixon - Set Decoration NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Cinematography
Oswald Morris - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Owen Roizman - THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Robert L. Surtees - THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
Freddie Young - NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Robert L. Surtees - SUMMER OF '42
Costume Design
Bill Thomas - BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Piero Tosi - DEATH IN VENICE
Margaret Furse - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Yvonne Blake & Antonio Castillo - NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Morton Haack - WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?
Documentary (Features)
Alan Landsburg - Producer ALASKA WILDERNESS LAKE
Walon Green - Producer THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE
Bruce Brown - Producer ON ANY SUNDAY
Lennart Ehrenborg & Thor Heyerdahl - Producers THE RA EXPEDITIONS
Marcel Ophuls - Producer LE CHAGRIN ET LA PITIÉ (THE SORROW AND THE PITY)
Documentary (Shorts)
Han Van Gelder - Producer ADVENTURES IN PERCEPTION
Julian Krainin & DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. - Producers ART IS...
Donald Wrye - Producer THE NUMBERS START WITH THE RIVER
Manuel Arango & Robert Amram - Producers SENTINELS OF SILENCE
Hal Riney, Dick Snider & Sherwood Omens - Producers SOMEBODY WAITING
Film Editing
Stuart Gilmore & John W. Holmes - THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Bill Butler - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Jerry Greenberg - THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Ralph E. Winters - KOTCH
Folmar Blangstad - SUMMER OF '42
Music: Original Dramatic Score
John Barry - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Richard Rodney Bennett - NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA
Jerry Fielding - STRAW DOGS
Isaac Hayes - SHAFT
Michel Legrand - SUMMER OF '42
Music: Scoring - Adaptation and Original Song Score
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman & Irwin Kostal - BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Peter Maxwell Davies & Peter Greenwell - THE BOY FRIEND
John Williams - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Dimitri Tiomkin - TCHAIKOVSKY
Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley & Walter Scharf - WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Music: Song - Original to the Picture
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyric BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS "The Age of Not Believing"
Henry Mancini - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (a.k.a. NEVER GIVE AN INCH) "All His Children"
Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr. - Music & Lyric BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN "Bless the Beasts and Children"
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Johnny Mercer - Lyric KOTCH "Life Is What You Make It"
Isaac Hayes - Music & Lyric SHAFT "Theme from Shaft" 
Short Subjects (Animated Films)
The designation of this category was changed from "Cartoons" to "Animated Films."
Ted Petok - Producer THE CRUNCH BIRD
Michael Mills - Producer EVOLUTION
Peter Sander & Murray Shostak - Producers THE SELFISH GIANT
Short Subjects (Live Action Films)
Denny Evans & Ken Greenwald - Producers GOOD MORNING
Stephen F. Verona - Producer THE REHEARSAL
Manuel Arango & Robert Amram - Producers SENTINELS OF SILENCE
Sound
Gordon K. McCallum, John Mitchell & Alfred J. Overton DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
Gordon K. McCallum & David Hildyard - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Theodore Soderberg & Christopher Newman - THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Richard Portman & Jack Solomon - KOTCH
Bob Jones & John Aldred - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Special Visual Effects
Alan Maley, Eustace Lycett & Danny Lee - BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS
Jim Danforth & Roger Dicken - WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1971.
Class II (Plaque):
 a href="whoswho5/wilkinson_jo.htm">John N. Wilkinson (Optical Radiation Corporation) - For the development and engineering of a system of xenon arc lamphouses for motion picture projection.
Class III (Citation):
 a href="whoswho5/hutchinson_t.htm">Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson, James R. Rochester & Fenton Hamilton - For the development and introduction of the Sunbrute system of xenon arc lamps for location lighting in motion picture production.
 Photo Research (Division of Kollmorgen Corporation) - For the development and introduction of the film-lens balanced Three Color Meter.
a href="whoswho5/auguste_r.htm">Robert D. Auguste (Cinema Products Company) - For the development and introduction of a new crystal controlled lightweight motor for the 35mm motion picture Arriflex camera.
Producers Service Corporation, Consolidated Film Industries, Cinema Research Corporation & Research Products Inc. - For the engineering and implementation of fully automated blow-up motion picture printing systems.
Cinema Products Company - For a control motor to actuate zoom lenses on motion picture cameras.
Honorary and Other Awards
Charles Chaplin - For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1971.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1971.
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FIRSTS
· Isaac Hayes is the first black man to win for Best Song.
· Jane Fonda is the only American nominated for Best Actress.
· Janet Suzman nominated for film debut.
RULE CHANGES
"Cartoons" becomes "Animated Films"; Scoring Awards category names changed (again).
ROLE REVERSALS
· Gene Hackman's Popeye Doyle could have been Steve McQueen's, Jackie Gleason's, or even columnist Jimmy Breslin's. Hackman, the directors seventh choice, grabbed the part without a moment's hesitation.
· Ben Johnson initially turned down the role for which he won the Academy Award because the script contained too much swearing and nudity. A phone call from John Ford convinced Johnson to accept the part, with rewrites for his scenes.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Dirty Harry, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Song: "Brown Sugar," "Wild Horses"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Jane Fonda's antiwar activism prompted some state legislatures to pass resolutions calling for a boycott of her movies.
· Critics had to warn filmgoers not to confuse Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (a film they almost universally praised) with Dennis Hopper's short-lived "extravagant mess" from Universal, The Last Movie.
· Bogdanovich left his wife, production designer Polly Platt, for his 21-year-old star, Cybill Shepherd.
· At the time, it was thought that director William Friedkin was only 32. His win for Best Director would make him the youngest to receive that honor. However, it was later discovered that he was born in 1935, not 1939 as originally believed. Thus, Norman Taurog remains the youngest Best Director in Oscar® history.
· Ann-Margret told reporters that she had gained 20 pounds for her role in Carnal Knowledge.
· Ann-Margret's manager, Alan Carr, was approached at a party by non-nominee Shirley MacLaine, who was wearing a McGovern for President button. "What are you doing for the campaign?" Shirley asked. "Oh, we're just taking a few ads in the trades," Carr replied.
· Fiddler on the Roof's Topol went to his superiors in the Israeli Army with the news of his nomination, and asked for liberty from his two-months active duty to attend the Awards show. Permission was granted.
· The Nixon administration would not allow Vanessa Redgrave into the country to attend the Awards ceremonies.
· Barbra Streisand refused an offer to present the Best Picture Award, and a number of older stars declined because they didn't approve of the nomination of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
· The Academy's using Charles Chaplin's visit to the US as an opportunity to give him an Honorary Award did not meet with universal approval. Copley New Service columnist Nancy Anderson wrote, "I'm old enough to remember how he sat out WW II, helping neither his adopted country, this one, which had made him rich, nor his native one, England, which was fighting for its life. Too old, I supppose, to have enlisted, he didn't follow Joe E. Brown's example and do camp shows and benefits, not did he do anything else, including pay his taxes."
· Accepting his Best Supporting Actor Award, Ben Johnson concluded, "What I'm about to say probably will stir up a lot of conversation all over the country. It's something I'd like to leave in everyone's mind throughout the world." He paused dramatically. "This couldn't have happened to a nicer fella." The audience exploded with laughter and presenter Richard Harris hugged him - again.
· Some journalists reported scattered boos mixed with the applause when Jane Fonda's name was announced as Best Actress, but the jeers weren't heard on television. Fonda took the stage and said, "Thank all of you who applauded." After a pause, she continued, "There's a great deal to say, but I'm not going to say it tonight. I just want to thank you very much."
· Best Actor winner Gene Hackman looked at the envelope before he spoke. "This is what it says," Hackman murmured when he saw his name in writing. He thanked his acting teacher and "Billy Friedkin, who brought me through this one -- I wanted to quit."
· Charles Chaplin's return to the Academy was greeted with a standing ovation that lasted several minutes. Jack Lemmon brought his prop hat and cane to him onstage, and Chaplin put the hat on -- another ovation. He was joined by his wife Oona, all the night's winners and the dancers from the Shaft number. They all crowded around Chaplin as a recording of his song "Smile" filled the auditorium. The Shell gasoline trademark was superimposed over Chaplin's face, and the telecast ended.
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