Oscar Nominations and Winners (1971)

Best Picture

• A Clockwork Orange
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The French Connection
• The Last Picture Show
• Nicholas and Alexandra

Best Director

• Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)
• William Friedkin (The French Connection)
• Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)
• John Schlesinger (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Peter Finch (Sunday Bloody Sunday)
• Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
• walter Matthau (Kotch)
• George C. Scott (The Hospital)
• Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jeff Bridges (The Last Picture Show)
• Leonard Frey (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Richard Jaeckel (Sometimes a Great Notion)
• Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
• Roy Scheider (The French Connection)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Julie Christie (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)
• Jane Fonda (Klute)
• Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday)
• Vanessa Redgrave (Mary, Queen of Scots)
• Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)
• Barbara Harris (Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?)
• Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)
• Margaret Leighton (The Go-Between)
• Ann Margret (Carnal Knowledge)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
• The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
• The French Connection (Ernest Tidyman)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Ugo Pirro and Wittorio Bonicelli)
• The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich)

Best Original Screenplay

• The Hospital (Paddy Chayefsky)
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro)
• Klute (Andy and Dave Lewis)
• Summer of '42 (Herman Raucher)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (Penelope Gilliatt)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Dodes'Ka-Den (Japan)
• The Emigrants (Sweden)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy)
• The Policeman (Israel)
• Tchaikovsky (U.S.S.R.)

Art Direction

• The Andromeda Strain
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Nicholas and Alexandra

Cinematography

• Fiddler on the Roof
• The French Connection
• The Last Picture Show
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• Summer of '42

Costume Design

• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Death in Venice
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Nicholas and Alexandra
• What's the Matter With Helen?

Documentary Feature

• Alaska Wilderness Lake
• The Hellstrom Chronicle
• On Any Sunday
• The RA Expeditions
• The Sorrow and the Pity

Documentary Short Subject

• Adventures in Perception
• Art Is...
• The Numbers Start with the River
• Sentinels of Silence
• Somebody Waiting

Film Editing

• The Andromeda Strain
• A Clockwork Orange
• The French Connection
• Kotch
• Summer of '42

Adaptation Score

• Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and Irwin Kostal)
• The Boy Friend (Maxwell Davies and Peter Greenwell)
• Fiddler on the Roof (John Williams)
• Tchaikovsky (Dimitri Tiomkin)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley and Walter Scharf)

Original Score

• Mary, Queen of Scots (John Barry)
• Nicholas and Alexandra (Richard Rodney Bennett)
• Shaft (Issac Hayes)
• Straw Dogs (Jerry Fielding)
• Summer of '42 (Michel Legrand)

Original Song

• "The Age of Not Believing" (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
• "All His Children" (Sometimes a Great Notion) Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
• "Bless the Beasts & Children" (Bless the Beasts & Children) Music and Lyrics by Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin Jr.
• "Life is What You Make It" (Kotch) Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
• Theme from Shaft" (Shaft) Music and Lyrics by Issac Hayes.

Animated Short Film

• The Crunch Bird
• Evolution
• The Selfish Giant

Live Action Short Film

• Good Morning
• The Rehearsal
• Sentinels of Silence

Sound

• Diamonds Are Forever
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The French Connection
• Kotch
• Mary, Queen of Scots

Visual Effects

• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth