1971 in film

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The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1971
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Fiddler on the Roof United Artists $40,500,000 [1]
2 Billy Jack Warner Bros. $32,500,000 [1]
3 The French Connection 20th Century Fox $26,300,000 [1]
4 Summer of '42 Warner Bros.$20,500,000 [2]
5 Diamonds Are Forever United Artists$19,727,000 [2]
6 Dirty Harry Warner Bros.$18,000,000 [2]
7 A Clockwork Orange $17,000,000 [2]
8 Carnal Knowledge Embassy $14,075,000 [2]
9 The Last Picture Show Columbia $13,110,000 [2]
10 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Cinemation Industries $9,200,000 [3]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 29th Golden Globe Awards
February 6, 1972
25th BAFTA Awards
February 26, 1972
44th Academy Awards
April 10, 1972
DramaComedy or Musical
Best Film The French Connection Fiddler on the Roof Sunday Bloody Sunday The French Connection
Best Director William Friedkin
The French Connection
John Schlesinger
Sunday Bloody Sunday
William Friedkin
The French Connection
Best Actor Gene Hackman
The French Connection
Chaim Topol
Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Finch
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Gene Hackman
The French Connection
Best Actress Jane Fonda
Klute
Twiggy
The Boy Friend
Glenda Jackson
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Jane Fonda
Klute
Best Supporting Actor Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
Edward Fox (actor)
The Go-Between
Ben Johnson
The Last Picture Show
Best Supporting Actress Ann-Margret
Carnal Knowledge
Margaret Leighton
The Go-Between
Cloris Leachman
The Last Picture Show
Best Screenplay, Original The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
The Go-Between
Harold Pinter
The Hospital
Paddy Chayefsky
Best Screenplay, Adapted The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman
Best Original Score Isaac Hayes
Shaft
Michel Legrand
Summer of '42
Michel Legrand
Summer of '42
John Williams
Fiddler on the Roof
Best Original Song"Life Is What You Make It"
Kotch
N/A"Theme from Shaft"
Shaft
Best Foreign Language Film The Policeman N/A The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Go-Between , directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany

1971 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January5 Douglas Shearer 71CanadaSound Engineer
5 Fanfulla 57ItalyActor
15 John Dall 52USActor
20 Broncho Billy Anderson 90USActor, Director, Writer
25 Isobel Lennart 55USScreenwriter
February3 Jay C. Flippen 71USActor
22 Frédéric Mariotti 87FranceActor
22 Matt McHugh 77USActor
26 Fernandel 67FranceActor
March5 Winnie Lightner 71USActress
8 Harold Lloyd 77USActor, Director, Writer
8 Borden Chase 71USScreenwriter
12 Roy Glenn 56USActor
12 Tor Johnson 67SwedenActor
15 Bebe Daniels 70USActress
21 Nan Wynn 55USSinger, Actress
22 Nella Walker 85USActress
23 Basil Dearden 60UKDirector
30 Selmer Jackson 82USActor
30 Werner Peters 52GermanyActor
April9 Paulette Noizeux 83FranceActress
20 Cecil Parker 73UKActor
21 Edmund Lowe 81USActor
28 John Tansey 69USActor, Director
May1 Glenda Farrell 66USActress
26 John Longden 71UKActor
27 Chips Rafferty 62AustraliaActor
28 Audie Murphy 45USActor
June8 Piero Gherardi 61ItalyProduction, Costume Designer
9 Harold Lloyd Jr. 40USActor
10 Michael Rennie 61UKActor
14 Kenneth Macpherson 69Scotland-ItalyFilm-maker
18 Thomas Gomez 65USActor
July6 Louis Armstrong 69USActor, Musician
11 Carleton G. Young 64USActor
17 Cliff Edwards 76USActor, Singer
19 Norman Reilly Raine 77USScreenwriter
23 Van Heflin 62USActor
24 Christl Mardayn 74AustriaActress, Singer
August3 Ernst Eklund 81SwedenActor
15 Paul Lukas 80HungaryActor
16 Spyros Skouras 78GreeceProducer, Studio Executive
17 Horace McMahon 65USActor
September7 Spring Byington 84USActress
10 Pier Angeli 39ItalyActress
11 Bella Darvi 42PolandActress
October11 Chester Conklin 85USActor
12 Fritz Achterberg 90GermanyActor
13 Phoebe Ephron 57USScreenwriter
19 Betty Bronson 64USActress
24 Cheryl Walker 53USActress
26 Vincent Coleman 71USActor
November2 Martha Vickers 46USActress
4 Ann Pennington 77USActress
17 Gladys Cooper 82UKActress
17 Fania Marinoff 81USActress
19 Stuart Gilmore 70USEditor, Director
26 Bengt Ekerot 51SwedenActor
December12 Frank Wolff 43USActor
13 Dita Parlo 63PolandActress
18 Diana Lynn 45USActress
26 Robert Lowery 58USActor
28 Max Steiner 83AustriaComposer
28 Burt Gillett 80USDirector
29 Stuart Holmes 87USActor
30 Dorothy Comingore 58USActress
31 Marin Sais 81USActress
31 Lucien Hubbard 83USProducer, screenwriter

Film debuts

References

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