Best Picture

• Airport, Ross Hunter, producer
• Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, producers
• Love Story, Howard G. Minsky, producer
• M*A*S*H, Ingo Preminger, producer
• Patton, Frank McCarthy, producer

Best Actor

• Melvyn Douglas, I Never Sang for My Father
• James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope
• Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces
• Ryan O'Neal, Love Story
• George C. Scott, Patton

Best Actress

• Jane Alexander, The Great White Hope
• Glenda Jackson, Women in Love
• Ali MacGraw, Love Story
• Sarah Miles, Ryan's Daughter
• Carrie Snodgress, Diary of a Mad Housewife

Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces
• Lee Grant, The Landlord
• Helen Hayes, Airport
• Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H
• Maureen Stapleton, Airport

Directing

• Robert Altman, M*A*S*H
• Federico Fellini, Fellini Satyricon
• Arthur Hiller, Love Story
• Ken Russell, Women in Love
• Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton

Writing

• Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium
  • Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father
  • Larry Kramer, Women in Love
  • Ring Lardner, Jr., M*A*S*H
  • George Seaton, Airport
  • Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman, Lovers and Other Strangers
• Original Screenplay
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, Patton
  • Bob Rafelson and Adrien Joyce, story; Adrien Joyce, screenplay, Five Easy Pieces
  • Eric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's
  • Erich Segal, Love Story
  • Norman Wexler, Joe

Cinematography

• Fred Koenekamp, Patton
• Ernest Laszlo, Airport
• Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda and Masamichi Satoh, Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Billy Williams, Women in Love
• Freddie Young, Ryan's Daughter

Art Direction

• Alexander Golitzen and E. Preston Ames, art direction; Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport
• Tambi Larsen, art direction; Darrell Silvera, set decoration, The Molly Maguires
• Terry Marsh and Bob Cartwright, art direction; Pamela Cornell, set decoration, Scrooge
• Urie McCleary and Gil Parrondo, art direction; Antonio Mateos and Pierre-Louis Thevenet, set decoration, Patton
• Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport
• Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day and Taizoh Kawashima, art direction; Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett and Carl Biddiscombe, set decoration, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Sound

• Gordon K. McCallum and John Bramall, Ryan's Daughter
• Ronald Pierce and David Moriarty, Airport
• Murray Spivack and Herman Lewis, Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Dan Wallin and Larry Johnson, Woodstock
• Douglas Williams and Don Bassman, Patton

Music

• Song
  • "For All We Know", Lovers and Other Strangers, Fred Karlin, music; Robb Royer and James Griffin, lyrics
  • "Pieces of Dreams", Pieces of Dreams, Michel Legrand, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics
  • "Thank You Very Much", Scrooge, Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics
  • "Till Love Touches Your Life", Madron, Riz Ortolani, music; Arthur Hamilton, lyrics
  • "Whistling Away the Dark", Darling Lili, Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics
• Original Score
  • Frank Cordell, Cromwell
  • Jerry Goldsmith, Patton
  • Francis Lai, Love Story
  • Henry Mancini, Sunflower
  • Alfred Newman, Airport
• Original Song Score
  • The Beatles, Let It Be
  • Leslie Bricusse, music and lyrics; Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer, adaptation, Scrooge
  • Fred Karlin and Tylwyth Kymry, The Baby Maker
  • Henry Mancini, music; Johnny Mercer, lyrics, Darling Lili
  • Rod McKuen and John Scott Trotter, music; Rod McKuen, Bill Melendez and Al Shean, lyrics; Vince Guaraldi, adaptation score, A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Film Editing

• Hugh S. Fowler, Patton
• Stuart Gilmore, Airport
• Danford B. Greene, M*A*S*H
• James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring and Inoue Chikaya, Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Thelma Schoonmaker, Woodstock

Costume Design

• Donald Brooks and Jack Bear, Darling Lili
• Margaret Furse, Scrooge
• Edith Head, Airport
• Nino Novarese, Cromwell
• Bill Thomas, The Hawaiians

Special Visual Effects

• A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott, Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Alex Weldon, Patton

Short Subjects

• Cartoon
  • The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two (Haboush Company; Goldstone Films)
  • Is It Always Right to Be Right? (Stephen Bosustow Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • The Shepherd (Cameron Guess and Associates; Brandon Films)
• Live Action
  • The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (University of Southern California, Department of Cinema; Universal)
  • Shut Up . . .I'm Crying (Robert Siegler Productions; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)
  • Sticky My Fingers . . .Fleet My Feet (American Film Institute; Lester A. Schoenfeld Films)

Documentary

• Short Subject
  • The Gifts (Robert McBride, producer; Richter-McBride Productions for the Water Quality Office of the Environmental Protection Agency)
  • Interviews With My Lai Veterans (Joseph Strick, producer; Laser Film Corp.)
  • A Long Way From Nowhere (Bob Aller, producer; Robert Aller Productions)
  • Oisin (Vivien Carey and Patrick Carey, producers; Aengus Films)
  • Time Is Running Out (Horst Dallmayr and Robert Menegoz, producers; Gesellschaft für bildende Filme)
• Feature
  • Chariots of the Gods (Dr. Harald Reinl, producer; Terra-Filmkunst GmbH)
  • Jack Johnson (Jim Jacobs, producer; The Big Fights)
  • King: A Filmed Record . . .Montgomery to Memphis (Ely Landau, producer; Commonwealth United Corporation Production)
  • Say Goodbye (David H. Vowell, producer; David L. Wolper Productions)
  • Woodstock (Wadleigh-Maurice Ltd.; Warner Bros.)

Foreign Language Film

• First Love, Switzerland
• Hoa-Binh, France
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italy
• Paix Sur Les Champs, Belgium
• Tristana, Spain

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Ingmar Bergman

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Frank Sinatra

Honorary Awards

• To Lillian Gish for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures
• To Orson Welles for superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures

Facts:

• Winners Announced: April 15, 1971
• Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
• Host: no one
• Eligibility Year: 1970