43rd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 43rd
caption = "Patton"
date = Thursday, April 15, 1971
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = None
producer = Robert E. Wise
director = Richard Dunlap
Musical director = Quincy Jones
network = NBC
last = 42nd
next = 44thThe 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

Winners

Best Picture

"Patton"
*"Airport"
*"Five Easy Pieces"
*"Love Story"
*"MASH"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"Patton - George C. Scott" (refused)
*"Five Easy Pieces - Jack Nicholson"
*"The Great White Hope - James Earl Jones"
*"I Never Sang for My Father - Melvyn Douglas"
*"Love Story - Ryan O'Neal"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Women in Love - Glenda Jackson"
*"Diary of a Mad Housewife - Carrie Snodgress"
*"The Great White Hope - Jane Alexander"
*"Love Story - Ali McGraw"
*"Ryan's Daughter - Sarah Miles"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"Ryan's Daughter - John Mills"
*"I Never Sang for My Father - Gene Hackman"
*"Little Big Man - Chief Dan George"
*"Love Story - John Marley"
*"Lovers and Other Strangers - Richard S. Castellano"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Airport - Helen Hayes"
*"Airport - Maureen Stapleton"
*"Five Easy Pieces - Karen Black"
*"The Landlord - Lee Grant"
*"MASH - Sally Kellerman"

Best Director

"Patton - Franklin J. Schaffner"
*"Satyricon - Federico Fellini"
*"Love Story - Arthur Hiller"
*"MASH - Robert Altman"
*"Women in Love - Ken Russell"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"MASH - Ring Lardner Jr."
*"Airport - George Seaton"
*"I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson"
*"Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman"
*"Women in Love - Larry Kramer"

Best Original Screenplay

"Patton - Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North"
*"Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson"
*"Joe - Norman Wexler"
*"Love Story - Erich Segal"
*"My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer"

Best Cinematography

"Ryan's Daughter - Freddie Young"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Patton - Urie McCleary , Gil Parrondo , Antonio Mateos and Louis Thevenet"

Best Costume Design

"Cromwell - Vittorio Nino Novarese"

Best Sound

"Patton - Douglas O. Williams and Don J. Bassman"

Best Film Editing

"Patton - Hugh S. Fowler"

Best Effects, Special Visual Effects

"Tora! Tora! Tora! - A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott"

Best Music, Original Song

"Lovers and Other Strangers - Fred Karlin , Jimmy Griffin and Robb Royer for the song For All We Know"

Best Music, Original Song Score

"Let it Be - Paul McCartney , John Lennon , Ringo Starr and George Harrison"

Best Music, Original Score

"Love Story - Francis Cai"

Best Short Subject, Cartoons

"Is It Always Right to Be Right?"

Best Short Subjects, Live Action

"The Resurrection of Broncho Billy"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Interviews with My Lai Veterans"

Best Documentary, Features

"Woodstock"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Italy"