1971 in film

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pt:Predefinição:Anos no cinema The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1971 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour
• The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.
• April 23 - The film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Fiddler on the Roof, starring Topol
2. Billy Jack
3. The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman
4. Summer of '42
5. Diamonds Are Forever, with Sean Connery
6. Dirty Harry
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Carnal Knowledge
9. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
10. Willard
11. The Hospital
12. Klute
13. The Andromeda Strain
14. Big Jake
15. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

[edit] 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

[edit] Films released in 1971

• 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
• A Clockwork Orange
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Plaza Suite, starring Walter Matthau
• A Safe Place
• Shaft
• She Killed in Ecstasy
• Skin Game
• Something Big
• Straw Dogs
• Summer of '42
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
• They Call Me Trinity, spaghetti western with Terence Hill
• The Touch of Satan
• Trafic
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Two-Lane Blacktop
• Vanishing Point
• Wake in Fright
• Walkabout, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• 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
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

[edit] Births

• February 17 - Denise Richards, actress
• March 31 - Ewan McGregor
• April 18 - David Tennant
• May 14 - Sofia Coppola
• August 31 - Chris Tucker, actor
• October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actress.
• November 25 - Christina Applegate
• December 26 - Jared Leto, American actor and musician

[edit] 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, actressde:Filmjahr 1971

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