1970 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1970

Le Cercle Rouge

The Conformist

Five Easy Pieces

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Kelly's Heroes

Little Big Man

Love Story

M*A*S*H

★ ✔ Patton

Woodstock

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Best Actor of 1970

Eric Braeden (Colossus: The Forbin Project)

Albert Finney (Scrooge)

★ Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ George C. Scott (Patton)

Donald Sutherland (M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes)

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Best Actress of 1970

Stéphane Audran (Le Boucher)

★ ✔ Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)

Ali McGraw (Love Story)

Sarah Miles (Ryan's Daughter)

Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife)

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Best Director of 1970

★ Robert Altman (M*A*S*H)

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist)

Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Cercle Rouge)

Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1970

★ Chief Dan George (Little Big Man)

Van Heflin (Airport)

Frank Langella (Diary of a Mad Housewife and Twelve Chairs)

Karl Malden (Patton)

David Warner (The Ballad of Cable Hogue)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1970

★ Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ Helen Hayes (Airport)

Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H)

Dominique Sanda (The Conformist)

Maureen Stapleton (Airport)

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Special Award

Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, based on factual material by Ladislas Farago and Omar N. Bradley (Patton) (screenplay)

Jerry Goldsmith (Patton) (score)

"Thank You Very Much" (Scrooge) music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse (song)

The Beatles (Let It Be) (original song score)

"Colossus" (Colossus: The Forbin Project) (a computer programmer's worst nightmare)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.