1971 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1971 (Poll Closed)

• A Clockwork Orange  26.23%  (16 votes)  
   
• Dirty Harry  3.28%  (2 votes)  
   
• Duel  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• ✔ The French Connection  14.75%  (9 votes)  
   
• Klute  4.92%  (3 votes)  
   
• ★ The Last Picture Show  34.43%  (21 votes)  
   
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller  11.48%  (7 votes)  
   
• Szerelem a.k.a. Love  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Walkabout  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory  4.91%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 61

 

Best Actor of 1971 (Poll Closed)

• Warren Beatty (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)  1.82%  (1 votes)  
   
• Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry and Play Misty For Me)  3.64%  (2 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Gene Hackman (The French Connection)  50.91%  (28 votes)  
   
• Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)  34.55%  (19 votes)  
   
• Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)  9.08%  (5 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 55

 

Best Actress of 1971 (Poll Closed)

• Jenny Agutter (Walkabout)  4.35%  (3 votes)  
   
• Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller)  20.29%  (14 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Jane Fonda (Klute)  65.22%  (45 votes)  
   
• Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude)  4.35%  (3 votes)  
   
• Jessica Walter (Play Misty For Me)  5.79%  (4 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 69

 

Best Director of 1971

Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)

★ Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)

✔ William Friedkin (The French Connection)

Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)

Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1971 (Poll Closed)

• Jack Albertson (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)  8.33%  (4 votes)  
   
• Jeff Bridges (The Last Picture Show)  2.08%  (1 votes)  
   
• Barnard Hughes (The Hospital)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)  64.58%  (31 votes)  
   
• Roy Scheider (The French Connection)  25%  (12 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 48

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1971

Eileen Brennan (The Last Picture Show)

Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)

★ ✔ Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)

Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge)

Diana Rigg (The Hospital)

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Special Award

Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, from the novel by Larry McMurtry (The Last Picture Show) (adapted screenplay)

Robert Surtees (The Last Picture Show) (cinematography)

"Theme From Shaft" music and lyrics by Issac Hayes (Shaft) (song)

The French Connection (best action sequence) (the car chase)

"Dog" (Big Jake) (best mind-reading dog)

Brian's Song (making grown men cry since 1971)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

Two of the best movies of the year — Brian's Song and Steven Spielberg's Duel — were actually made for television. But both were also given world-wide theatrical releases, and while that doesn't make them Oscar eligible, it makes them alternate Oscar eligible. Thus, their presence here.

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