43rd Academy Awards

43rd Academy Awards
43rd Academy Awards
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
	← 42nd; Academy Awards; 44th →;

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

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
Patton – Frank McCarthy, producer‡ Airport – Ross Hunter, producer Five Easy Pieces – Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, producers Love Story – Howard G. Minsky, producer MASH* – Ingo Preminger, producer	Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton‡ Federico Fellini – Fellini Satyricon Arthur Hiller – Love Story Robert Altman – MASH* Ken Russell – Women in Love
Best Actor	Best Actress
*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	*Glenda Jackson – Women in Love* as Gudrun 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	Best Supporting Actress
*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	*Helen Hayes – Airport* as Ada Quonsett*‡ Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces* as Rayette Dipesto Lee Grant – The Landlord as Joyce Enders Sally Kellerman – MASH* as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero
Best Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Patton – Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North‡ Five Easy Pieces – Screenplay by Adrien Joyce; Story by Bob Rafelson and Adrien Joyce Joe – Norman Wexler Love Story – Erich Segal My Night at Maud's – Éric Rohmer	MASH* – Ring Lardner Jr. based on the novel by Richard Hooker ‡ Airport – George Seaton based on the novel by Arthur Hailey I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Woodruff Anderson based on his play Lovers and Other Strangers – Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman based on the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor Women in Love – Larry Kramer based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short Subject
Woodstock – Bob Maurice‡ Erinnerungen an die Zukunft – Harald Reinl (Released in English-language version under title "Chariots of the Gods?") Jack Johnson – Jimmy Jacobs King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis – Ely Landau Say Goodbye – David H. Vowell	Interviews with My Lai Veterans – Joseph Strick‡ The Gifts - Robert McBride A Long Way from Nowhere - Bob Aller Oisín - Patrick Carey and Vivien Carey Time Is Running Out - Horst Dallmayr and Robert Menegoz
Best Live Action Short Subject	Best Short Subject – Cartoons
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy – John Longenecker‡ Shut Up...I'm Crying – Robert Siegler Sticky My Fingers...Fleet My Feet – John D. Hancock	Is It Always Right to Be Right? – Nick Bosustow‡ The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two – Robert Mitchell and Dale Case The Shepherd – Cameron Guess
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score
Love Story – Francis Lai‡ Airport – Alfred Newman (posthumous nomination) Cromwell – Frank Cordell Patton – Jerry Goldsmith Sunflower – Henry Mancini	Let It Be – Music and Lyrics by The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr‡ The Baby Maker – Music by Fred Karlin; Lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry A Boy Named Charlie Brown – Music by Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter; Lyrics by Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez, and Al Shean; Adapted by Vince Guaraldi Darling Lili – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer Scrooge – Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; Adapted by Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer
Best Song Original for the Picture	Best Sound
*"For All We Know" – Lovers and Other Strangers* • Music by Fred Karlin • Lyrics by Robb Royer (Robb Wilson) and Jimmy Griffin (Arthur James)*‡ "Whistling Away the Dark" – Darling Lili* • Music by Henry Mancini • Lyrics by Johnny Mercer "Till Love Touches Your Life" – Madron • Music by Riz Ortolani • Lyrics by Arthur Hamilton "Pieces of Dreams" – Pieces of Dreams • Music by Michel Legrand • Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "Thank You Very Much" – Scrooge • Music and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse	Patton – Douglas Williams and Don Bassman‡ Airport – Ronald Pierce and David H. Moriarty Ryan's Daughter – Gordon McCallum and John Bramall Tora! Tora! Tora! – Murray Spivack and Herman Lewis Woodstock – Dan Wallin and Larry Johnson
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Costume Design
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Italy)‡ First Love (Switzerland) Hoa-Binh (France) Paix sur les champs (Belgium) Tristana (Spain)	Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese‡ Airport – Edith Head Darling Lili – Donald Brooks and Jack Bear The Hawaiians – Bill Thomas Scrooge – Margaret Furse
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Patton – Art Direction: Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo; Set Decoration: Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thévenet‡ Airport – Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen and E. Preston Ames; Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels The Molly Maguires – Art Direction: Tambi Larsen; Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera Scrooge – Art Direction: Terence Marsh and Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Pamela Cornell Tora! Tora! Tora! – Art Direction: Jack Martin Smith, Yoshirō Muraki, Richard Day, and Taizoh Kawashima; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett and Carl Biddiscombe	Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young‡ Airport – Ernest Laszlo Patton – Fred J. Koenekamp Tora! Tora! Tora! – Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Masamichi Satoh, and Sinsaku Himeda Women in Love – Billy Williams
Best Film Editing	Best Special Visual Effects
Patton – Hugh S. Fowler‡ Airport – Stuart Gilmore MASH* – Danford B. Greene Tora! Tora! Tora! – James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, and Inoue Chikaya Woodstock – Thelma Schoonmaker	Tora! Tora! Tora! – A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott‡ Patton – Alex Weldon

Films with multiple wins and nominations

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
10	Airport
10	Patton
7	Love Story
5	MASH*
5	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
2	The Great White Hope

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

Academy Honorary Award

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Ingmar Bergman

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Frank Sinatra

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

References

^ TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2006.
^ ^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.

[1] TotalFilm. "Review of Patton". Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2006.

[Oscars_'70_Notes-2] 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".

[Oscars1971-4] "The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2015.

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