1971

Best Picture

The French Connection
-The Last Picture Show
-A Clockwork Orange
-Walkabout
-Klute

Best Director

"All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie."
William Friedkin for The French Connection
-Peter Bogdanovich for The Last Picture Show
-Stanley Kubrick for A Clockwork Orange
-Nicolas Roeg for Walkabout
-George Lucas for THX 1138

Best Actor

"All right, Popeye's here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!"
Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection
-Malcolm McDowell as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange
-Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
-George C. Scott as Dr. Bock in The Hospital
-Donald Sutherland as John Klute in Klute

Best Actress

"And for an hour... for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world, and the best fuck in the world."
Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels in Klute
-Liv Ullman as Kristina in The Emigrants
-Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold & Maude
-Vanessa Redgrave as Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary, Queen of Scots
-Julie Christie as Constance Miller in McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Best Supporting Actor

"You wanna play "hide the salami" with his old lady?"
Roy Scheider as Det. Buddy Russo in The French Connection
-Jeff Bridges as Duane Jackson in The Last Picture Show
-Timothy Bottoms as Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show
-Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show
-Cleavon Little as DJ Super Soul in Vanishing Point

Best Supporting Actress

"You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back."
Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show
-Ann-Margaret as Bobbi in Carnel Knowledge
-Candace Bergen as Jacy Farrow in The Last Picture Show
-Ellen Burstyn as Louis Farrow in The Last Picture Show
-Diana Rigg as Barbara in The Hospital

Best Screenplay

"One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was."
A Clockwork Orange
-The Last Picture Show
-The Hospital
-Bananas
-Walkabout
-Klute