43rd Academy Awards

43rd
Date	Thursday, April 15, 1971
Website	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Hosted by	None
Produced by	Robert Wise
Directed by	Richard Dunlap
Highlights
Best Picture	Patton
Most awards	Patton (7)
Television coverage
Network	NBC

The 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

It was during this ceremony that George C. Scott became the first actor to reject an Oscar, claiming that the Academy Awards were "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." Marlon Brando would do the same thing two years later, claiming Hollywood's mistreatment towards Native American actors as his reason for rejecting the Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather.

Winners

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Patton Airport Five Easy Pieces Love Story MASH	Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton Robert Altman - MASH Federico Fellini - Satyricon Arthur Hiller - Love Story Ken Russell - Women in Love
Best Actor	Best Actress
George C. Scott - Patton (refused) 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	Glenda Jackson - Women in Love Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope Ali McGraw - Love Story Sarah Miles - Ryan's Daughter Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
John Mills - Ryan's Daughter Richard S. Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers Chief Dan George - Little Big Man Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father John Marley - Love Story	Helen Hayes - Airport Maureen Stapleton - Airport Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces Lee Grant - The Landlord Sally Kellerman - MASH
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted 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	MASH - Ring Lardner Jr. Airport - George Seaton I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Woodruff Anderson Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman Women in Love - Larry Kramer
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Woodstock Erinnerungen an die Zukunft (Released in English language version under title "Chariots of the Gods?") Jack Johnson King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Say Goodbye	Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick, Producer The Gifts A Long Way from Nowhere Oisin Time Is Running Out
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy - John Longenecker Shut Up...I'm Crying - Robert Siegler, Producer Sticky My Fingers...Fleet My Feet - John Hancock	Is It Always Right to Be Right? - Stephen Bosustow Prods., Schoenfeld Films - Nick Bosustow The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two - Haboush Company, Goldstone Films - Robert Mitchell and Dale Case The Shepherd - Cameron Guess and Associates, Brandon Films - Cameron Guess
Best Original Score (not a musical)	Best Original or Adaptation Score
Love Story – Francis Lai Airport – Alfred Newman (posthumous nomination) Cromwell – Frank Cordell Patton – Jerry Goldsmith I Girasoli – Henry Mancini	Let It Be – The Beatles The Baby Maker – music by Fred Karlin; lyrics by Tylwyth Kymry A Boy Named Charlie Brown – music by Rod McKuen, John Scott Trotter; lyrics by Rod McKuen, Bill Meléndez; Al Shean; adaptation score by Vince Guaraldi Darling Lili – Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Johnny Mercer Scrooge – music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; arranged/adapted by Ian Fraser and Herbert W. Spencer
Best Original Song	Best Sound Mixing
"For All We Know" — Lovers and Other Strangers • Music: Fred Karlin • Lyrics: Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin "Whistling Away the Dark" — Darling Lili • Music: Henry Mancini • Lyrics: Johnny Mercer "Till Love Touches Your Life" — Madron • Music: Riz Ortolani • Lyrics: Arthur Hamilton "Pieces of Dreams" — Pieces of Dreams • Music: Michel Legrand • Lyrics: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "Thank You Very Much" — Scrooge • Music and lyrics: Leslie Bricusse	Patton - Douglas O. Williams and Don J. Bassman Airport - Ronald Pierce and David H. Moriarty Ryan's Daughter - Gordon K. McCallum and John Bramall Tora! Tora! Tora! - Murray Spivack and Herman Lewis Woodstock - Dan Wallin and L. A. 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 - Jack Bear and Donald Brooks The Hawaiians - Bill Thomas Scrooge - Margaret Furse
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Patton Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thevenet Airport - Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames, Jack D. Moore, Mickey S. Michaels The Molly Maguires - Tambi Larsen, Darrell Silvera Scrooge - Terence Marsh, Bob Cartwright, Pamela Cornell Tora! Tora! Tora! - Jack Martin Smith, Yoshiro Muraki, Richard Day, Taizoh Kawashima, Walter M. Scott, Norman Rockett, Carl Biddiscombe	Ryan's Daughter - Freddie Young Patton - Fred J. Koenekamp Airport - Ernest Laszlo Tora! Tora! Tora! - Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda, Masamichi Satoh and Charles F. Wheeler Women in Love - Billy Williams
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
1970 Patton—Hugh S. Fowler Airport—Stuart Gilmore MASH—Danford B. Greene Tora! Tora! Tora!—James E. Newcom, Pembroke J. Herring, Inoue Chikaya Woodstock—Thelma Schoonmaker	Tora! Tora! Tora! - A. D. Flowers and L. B. Abbott Patton - Alex Weldon

Presenters

• Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Harry Belafonte and Eva Marie Saint (Presenters: Best Adapted Screenplay)
• Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Joan Blondell and Glen Campbell (Presenters: Music Awards)
• Jim Brown and Sally Kellerman (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
• Geneviève Bujold and James Earl Jones (Presenters: Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing)
• Petula Clark (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Melvyn Douglas (Presenter: Honorary Award to Lillian Gish)
• Lola Falana and Juliet Prowse (Presenters: Best Visual Effects)
• Janet Gaynor and Ryan O'Neal (Presenters: Best Director)
• Goldie Hawn (Presenter: Best Actor)
• John Huston (Presenter: Honorary Award to Orson Welles)
• Shirley Jones and John Marley (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Burt Lancaster (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Ingmar Bergman)
• Walter Matthau (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Steve McQueen (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Sarah Miles and George Segal (Presenters: Best Original Screenplay)
• Ricardo Montalban and Jeanne Moreau (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Merle Oberon (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Gregory Peck (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Frank Sinatra)
• Maggie Smith (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Gig Young (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)

Performers

• Glen Campbell ("Pieces of Dreams" from Pieces of Dreams)
• Petula Clark ("For All We Know" from Lovers and Other Strangers)
• Petula Clark, Sally Kellerman, Burt Lancaster, and Ricardo Montalban ("Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge)
• Lola Falana ("Till Love Touches Your Life" from Madron)
• Shirley Jones ("Whistling Away the Dark" from Darling Lili)