1971 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
   ✔ Patton - winner
    Airport
    Five Easy Pieces
   ✔ Love Story
    M*A*S*H

Best Actor
   ✔ George C. Scott – Patton as General George S. Patton (declined) - winner
    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

Best Supporting Actor
    John Mills – Ryan's Daughter as Michael - winner
    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

Best Actress
    Glenda Jackson – Women in Love as Gundrun Brangwen - winner
    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 Actress
    Helen Hayes – Airport as Ada Quonsett - winner
    Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces as Rayette Dipesto
    Lee Grant – The Landlord as Joyce Enders
    Sally Kellerman – M*A*S*H as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
    Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
   ✔ Patton – Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North - winner
    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

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
    M*A*S*H – Ring Lardner Jr. based on the novel by Richard Hooker - winner
    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 – based on the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
    Women in Love – Larry Kramer based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence


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