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The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Fiddler on the Roof |
United Artists |
$38,261,000 |
| 2. |
Billy Jack |
Warner Brothers |
$32,500,000 |
| 3. |
The French Connection |
20th Century Fox |
$26,315,000 |
| 4. |
Summer of '42 |
Warner Brothers |
$20,500,000 |
| 5. |
Diamonds are Forever |
United Artists |
$19,727,000 |
| 6. |
Dirty Harry |
Warner Brothers |
$18,000,000 |
| 7. |
A Clockwork Orange |
Warner Brothers |
$17,000,000 |
| 8. |
Carnal Knowledge |
Embassy |
$14,075,000 |
| 9. |
The Last Picture Show |
Columbia |
$13,100,000 |
| 10. |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks* |
Disney |
$11,426,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1971.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
» Best Picture: The French Connection - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox
Best Director: William Friedkin - The French Connection » Best Actor: Gene Hackman - The French Connection
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute » Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
Best Supporting Actress: - Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show » Best Foreign Language Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ( Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany
Golden Globe Awards:
» Drama:
Best Picture: The French Connection » Best Actor: Gene Hackman - The French Connection
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute
» Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Fiddler on the Roof » Best Actor: Topol - Fiddler on the Roof
Best Actress: Twiggy - The Boy Friend
» Other
Best Director: William Friedkin - The French Connection
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
Films released in 1971
A Clockwork Orange
And Now For Something Completely Different
The Andromeda Strain
The Barefoot Executive
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Big Jake
Billy Jack
The Boy Friend
Brian's Song
Carnal Knowledge
Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)
The Devils
Diamonds Are Forever
Dirty Harry
Duel
The Emigrants
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The French Connection
Fiddler on the Roof
Gamera vs. Zigra
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
The Go-Between Palme d'Or winner
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Guddi
Harold and Maude
The Hired Hand
The Hospital
I, Monster
Julius Caesar (U.S. release)
Just avant la nuit (aka Just Before Nightfall)
Klute, starring Jane Fonda
Kotch, starring Walter Matthau
The Last Picture Show
Love
Macbeth
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Melody
Mon oncle Antoine, considered by critics the greatest Canadian film of all time
A New Leaf, starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Omega Man
Plaza Suite, starring Walter Matthau
A Safe Place
Shaft
She Killed in Ecstasy
Skin Game
Something Big
Straw Dogs
Summer of '42
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
They Call Me Trinity, spaghetti western with Terence Hill
THX 1138
The Touch of Satan
Trafic
Twitch of the Death Nerve
Two-Lane Blacktop
Vanishing Point
Von Richthofen and Brown (a.k.a. The Red Baron)
Wake in Fright
Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg
Waterloo (U.S. release)
Werewolves on Wheels
Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?
Willard
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Palme d'Or winner
Births
January 2 - Taye Diggs, actor
February 11 - Damien Lewis, actor
February 17 - Denise Richards, actress
March 7 - Peter Sarsgaard, actor
March 31 - Ewan McGregor
April 18 - David Tennant
May 14 - Sofia Coppola, actress, writer, and director
August 31 - Chris Tucker, actor
October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actress.
November 25 - Christina Applegate
December 26 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician
Deaths
January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
January 15 - John Dall, actor
February 26 - Fernandel, actor
March 8 – Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
March 15 - Bebe Daniels, actress
May 1 - Glenda Farrell, actress
May 27 - Chips Rafferty, Australian actor
May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero became film actor after the war
July 3 - Jim Morrison, songwriter, poet, musician
July 6 - Louis Armstrong, musician, actor
July 23 - Van Heflin, actor
August 15 - Paul Lukas, actor
September 7 - Spring Byington, actress
September 10 - Pier Angeli, actress
September 11 - Bella Darvi, actress
October 11 - Chester Conklin, actor
October 26 - Vincent Coleman, actor
November 17 - Gladys Cooper, actress
December 13 - Dita Parlo, actress
December 18 - Diana Lynn, actress
December 28 - Max Steiner, film composer
December 30 - Dorothy Comingore, actress best known as Susan Kane in Citizen Kane
December 31 - Pete Duel 31, actor (suicide)
December 31 - Marin Sais, actress
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