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1970 Academy Awards The 1970 Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. | Best Picture | Airport, Ross Hunter, producer (Universal) | | Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson and Richard Wechsler, producers (Columbia) | | Love Story, Howard G. Minsky, producer (Paramount) | | M*A*S*H, Ingo Preminger, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) | | Patton, Frank McCarthy, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) | |
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| | 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 |
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