43rd Academy Awards
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43rd Academy Awards | |
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Date | April 15, 1971 |
Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California |
Produced by | Robert Wise |
Directed by | Richard Dunlap |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | Patton |
Most awards | Patton (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 39 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 2024, 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
[edit]Nominees were announced on February 23, 1971. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[3][4]
Films with multiple wins and nominations
[edit]Nominations | Film |
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10 | Airport |
Patton | |
7 | Love Story |
5 | M*A*S*H |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | |
4 | Five Easy Pieces |
Ryan's Daughter | |
Scrooge | |
Women in Love | |
3 | Darling Lili |
I Never Sang for My Father | |
Lovers and Other Strangers | |
Woodstock | |
2 | Cromwell |
The Great White Hope |
Wins | Film |
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7 | Patton |
2 | Ryan's Daughter |
Academy Honorary Award
[edit]Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
[edit]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
[edit]Presenters and performers
[edit]The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters
[edit]Performers
[edit]Name(s) | Role | Performed |
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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
[edit]- 28th Golden Globe Awards
- 1970 in film
- 13th Grammy Awards
- 22nd Primetime Emmy Awards
- 23rd Primetime Emmy Awards
- 24th British Academy Film Awards
- 25th Tony Awards
References
[edit]- ^ TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2006.
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ "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".
- ^ "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.