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[LawrenceA]

Here are my choices of the 138 films I've seen from 1971 for…

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1971

 

10. MICHAEL BATES (Chief Prison Guard Barnes), A Clockwork Orange

 

 

I almost nominated him, too. He's so ridiculously over the top, I crack up every time he's on screen.

[Bogie56]

I almost nominated him, too. He's so ridiculously over the top, I crack up every time he's on screen.

 

Michael Bates is also terrific in Bedazzled (1967) as Inspector Reg Clarke.  His pickup line to Eleanor Bron is classic ..."Some of the boys down at the vice squad are having a bit of a do and I wondered if you'd like to come along."

[KilgoreTrout]

Best Actor: Malcolm McDowell –A Clockwork Orange

Best Actress: Mari Torocsik -Love //

Julie Christie -McCabe & Mrs. Miller if Love doesn't count as 1971 here

Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson –The Last Picture Show

Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman –The Last Picture Show - my all-time favorite supporting actress performance in any movie

[skimpole]

Actor

Malcolm McDowell,  A Clockwork Orange
Dirk Bogarde, Death in Venice
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Out 1:  Noli me Tangere, Two English Girls
Warren Beatty, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Paul Scofield, King Lear

Runner-ups:  Gene Hackman (The French Connection), Michael Caine (Get Carter), Woody Allen (Bananas), Donald Sutherland (Klute), Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory), Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), Benoit Ferreux (Murmur of the Heart), David Gulpilil (Walkabout), Walter Matthau (A New Leaf), Sean Connery (The Anderson Tapes), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude), Kenzo Kawarasaski (The Ceremony), Jon Finch (Macbeth), George C. Scott (The Hospital), Dennis Weaver (Duel), Alan Bates (The Go-Between), Dustin Hoffman (Straw Dogs), Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)
 
Actress

Juliet Berto, Out 1:  Noli me Tangere
Jane Fonda, Klute
Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Go-Between
Jenny Agutter, Walkabout
Twiggy, The Boy Friend

Runner-ups:  Elaine May (A New Leaf), Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude), Akiko Koyama (The Ceremony), Kika Markham (Two English Girls), Stacey Tendeter (Two English Girls), Goldie Hawn ($), Glenda Jackson (Sunday, Bloody Sunday),

 

Supporting Actor: 

Michael Lonsdale, Out 1:  Noli me Tangere
Tom Baker, Nicholas and Alexandra
Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show
Roy Scheider, The French Connection
Fernando Rey, The French Connection

Runner-ups:  Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show), Jason Robards (Johnny Got his Gun), Warren Oates (Two-Lane Blacktop), Jack MacGowran (King Lear), Ian Hogg (King Lear), Hugh Millais (McCabe and Mrs. Miller), Anthony Sharp (A Clockwork Orange), Luc Roeg (Walkabout)

Supporting Actress

Lea Massari, Murmur of the Heart
Cybil Shepherd, The Last Picture Show
Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show
Bulle Ogier, Out 1:  Noli me Tangere
Vivian Pickles, Harold and Maude

Runner-ups:  Eileen Brennan (The Last Picture Show), Bernadine Laflont (Out 1: Noli me Tangere), Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show), Margaret Leighton (The Go-Between), Nobuko Otowa (The Ceremony), Silvano Mangano (Death in Venice), Miriam Karlin (A Clockwork Orange), Diana Rigg (The Hospital), Sally Bryant (The Boy Friend),


Not seen:  Kotch, Mary, Queen of Scots, Sometimes a Great Notion, Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying these Terrible Things about me?

 

------There are 15 movies that have been nominated for all four acting oscars.  The first was My Man Godfrey, the latest was Silver Linings Playbook.  None of the 15 won all four awards.  (The closest was probably A Streetcar Named Desire.)  The last time I had a movie nominated for all four awards was The Misfits ten years earlier.

[Bogie56]

The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1971 were …

 

Best Actor

Gene Hackman, The French Connection*

Peter Finch, Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

 

Best Actress

Jane Fonda, Klute*

Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskovitz

Shirley MacLaine, Desperate Characters

 

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show*

Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop and The Hired Hand

Alan Webb, King Lear (UK version)

 

Best Supporting Actress

Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show*

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge

[CoraSmith]

ACTOR:

1. Dirk Bogarde - Death in Venice

2. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange

3. Al Pacino - The Panic in Needle Park

4. Richard Attenborough - 10 Rillington Place

5. Richard Roundtree - Shaft

6. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs

7. Bud Cort - Harold and Maude

8. Gene Hackman - The French Connection

9. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

10. Ninetto Davoli - Il Decameron

 

ACTRESS:

1. Ruth Gordon - Harold and Maude

2. Susan George - Straw Dogs
3. Sandy Ratcliff - Family Life

4. Kitty Winn - The Panic in Needle Park

5. Jane Fonda - Klute

6. Julie Christie - The Go-Between

7. Glenda Jackson - Sunday Bloody Sunday

8. Angela Lansbury - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

9. Gena Rowlands - Minnie and Moskowitz

10. Jenny Agutter - Walkabout

SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Charles Cioffi - Shaft
2. Jack Albertson - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

3. Edward Fox - The Go-Between

4. Anthony Sharp - A Clockwork Orange

5. Bill Dean - Family Life

6. Pier Paolo Pasolini - The Decameron

7. Sam Jaffe - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

8. John Hurt - 10 Rillington Place

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Lea Massari - Murmur of the Heart

2. Judy Geeson - 10 Rillington Place

3. Louise Lasser - Bananas

4. Cybill Shepherd - The Last Picture Show

5. Angela Luce - The Decameron

6. Miriam Karlin - A Clockwork Orange

7. Molly Picon - Fiddler on the Roof

8. Grace Cave - Family Life

 

JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: 

1. Björn Andrésen - Death in Venice

2. Dominic Guard - The Go-Between

3. Julie Dawn Cole - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

 

BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Duck - The Million Dollar Duck

BEST VEHICLE PERFORMANCE: Peterbilt 281 tanker truck - Duel

BEST EXTRA: Sylvester Stallone as subway thug in Bananas

BEST CLOSETED HARPIST: Bananas

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Isaac Hayes - Shaft

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: 

1. Theme from Shaft (Isaac Hayes in Shaft)

2. Diamonds Are Forever (Shirley Bassey in Diamonds Are Forever)

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONG: If I Were a Rich Man (Chaim Topol in Fiddler on the Roof)

BEST QUOTE: "Oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage..." (Harold and Maude)

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 138 films I've seen from 1971 for…

 

Best Actress of 1971

 

1.  JANE FONDA (Bree Daniels), Klute

2.  LIV ULLMANN (Kristina Johansdotter Nilsson), The Emigrants

3.  JOANNE WOODWARD (Dr. Mildred Watson), They Might Be Giants

4.  GLENDA JACKSON (Alex Greville), Sunday, Bloody Sunday

5.  KITTY WINN (Helen Reeves), The Panic In Needle Park

 

6.  JULIE CHRISTIE (Constance Miller), McCabe and Mrs. Miller

7.  LYNN CARLIN (Lynn Tyne), Taking Off

8.  RUTH GORDON (Dame Marjorie ‘Maude’ Chardin), Harold and Maude

9.  VANESSA REDGRAVE (Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland), Mary, Queen of Scots

10. GLENDA JACKSON (Queen Elizabeth of England), Mary, Queen of Scots

 

and...

 

JANET SUZMAN (Czarina Alexandra Romanov/”Sunny”), Nicholas and Alexandra

ELAINE MAY (Henrietta Lowell), A New Leaf

JENNY AGUTTER ("The Girl"), Walkabout

GINA ROWLANDS (Minnie Moore), Minnie and Moskowitz

ANGELA LANSBURY (Miss Eglantine Price), Bedknobs and Broomsticks

SUSAN GEORGE (Amy Sumner), Straw Dogs

KIKA MARKHAM (Anne Brown), Two English Girls

VERNA BLOOM (Hanna Collings), The Hired Hand

DOMINIQUE SANDA (Micol Finzi-Continis), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 138 films I've seen from 1971 for…

 

Best Actor of 1971

 

1.  MALCOLM MCDOWELL (Alexander 'Alex' DeLarge/”Prisoner No. 655321”), A Clockwork Orange

2.  GENE HACKMAN (Detective James R. "Popeye" Doyle/”Jimmy”), The French Connection

3.  GEORGE C. SCOTT (Justin Playfair/"Sherlock Holmes"), They Might Be Giants

4.  WOODY ALLEN (Fielding Mellish), Bananas

5.  GEORGE SEGAL (Jay), Born to Win

 

6.  GEORGE C. SCOTT (Dr. Herbert Bock), The Hospital

7.  PAUL SCOFIELD (King Lear), King Lear

8.  HAIM TOPOL (Tevye), Fiddler on the Roof

9.  JON FINCH (MacBeth), MacBeth

10. RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH (John Reginald Christie/”John Waddington”), 10 Rillington Place

 

and ...

 

PETER FINCH (Dr. Daniel Hirsh), Sunday, Bloody Sunday 

WARREN BEATTY (John "Pudgy" McCabe), McCabe and Mrs. Miller

WALTER MATTHAU (Joseph Kotch), Kotch

DENNIS WEAVER  (David Mann), Duel

EDDIE AXBERG (Axel Robert Nilsson), The Emigrants

PAUL NEWMAN (Hank Stamper), Sometimes a Great Notion

JACK NICHOLSON (Jonathan Fuerst), Carnal Knowledge

LOUIS GOSSETT,JR. (Jason O’Rourke), Skin Game

AL PACINO (Bobby), The Panic In Needle Park

OLIVER REED (Father Urbain Grandier), The Devils

MICHAEL JAYSTON (Czar Nicholas II Romanov), Nicholas and Alexandra

MAX VON SYDOW (Karl-Oskar Nilsson), The Emigrants

WARREN OATES (“G.T.O. Driver”), Two-Lane Blacktop

TIMOTHY BOTTOMS (Sonny Crawford), The Last Picture Show

 

bit of trivia regarding Eddie Axberg of The Emigrants.  He also worked as the sound man and sound editor!

[TomJH]

Here are my choices of the 138 films I've seen from 1971 for…

 

Best Actor of 1971

 

 

3.  GEORGE C. SCOTT (Justin Playfair/"Sherlock Holmes"), They Might Be Giants

 

I'm pleased to see your recognition of one of my favourites, Bogie. Here's a review I wrote of the film earlier this year.

 

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1971). A quirky, oddly affecting comedy about a judge, gone psychotic after the death of his wife, who believes that he is Sherlock Holmes. His brother wants him committed to an asylum, not for reasons of concern, but so that he can become executor of the would be Holmes's considerable estate. 

 

A female psychiatrist is asked to interview him for the formality of the commitment but becomes fascinated by the "Holmes" she meets because of his truly extraordinary deductive reasoning. It's apparent that, delusional or not, he may be a genius of some kind, and far more fascinating than most ordinary mortals. 

 

The psychiatrist, whose name just happens to be Watson, joins this Sherlock Holmes in his quest to search the streets of New York City for his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. On the way they meet various other people, also largely spurned by society, but, somehow, kindred souls in an otherwise pretty cold world.

 

This strange but intelligent, utterly charming film died a quick death at the 1971 box office, but has found a cult following of sorts over the years. George C. Scott, with briar pipe and deerstalker hat, is virtual perfection in the role of the man who believes he is Holmes, while Joanne Woodward, shorning herself of any glamour playing the socially awkward psychiatrist who starts to gradually believe in his cause, brings a warmth and touching vulnerability to her role. 

 

The film has a few wonderful scenes with lovely little touches. Holmes takes his Watson to a little movie theatre, almost empty but for a few street people, and a makeout couple in the top balcony. Yet the street people there all know him, greeting him with smiles as "Mr. Holmes" at this theatre where he likes to come for comfort and watch westerns.

 

At another unexpected moment a police officer suddenly comes around the corner, spots "Holmes" and a large smile spreads across his face as he says, "Why, Mr. Rathbone, it's an honour, sir," as he reaches over to shake his hand. That moment will undoubtedly mean more to film buffs today that it does the average contemporary viewer.

 

And, towards the film's beginning, there is a marvelous scene in which Scott, dressed as Holmes, arrives at a seedy asylum where an inmate is being abused by an orderly. There's a low angle camera shot of a towering Scott/Holmes as he struts through the hallway unruffled, dispassionately disarming orderlies who try to grab him, then proceeds to analyze the mind of the abused patient in a manner that has the patient's doctor (Watson in her first encounter of him) in almost open mouthed admiration. 

 

The film's final scene will undoubtedly baffle many viewers because of its ambiguity. It's a moment that is clearly open to interpretation. But I think that scene, and this film, are about the soaring human spirit, and a belief in one's self even though logic and all around you may tell you that you are wrong. 

 

They Might Be Giants is a lovely little film, one that should be sought out. There is an 88 minute version (the original theatrical release, apparently) available as part of the Universal Vault DVD collection. However, there was also an expanded version made for television, with an extra 10 minutes. That version is, apparently, part of an Anchor Bay DVD release.

 

[Bogie56]

The National Board of Review Awards for 1971 were…

 

Best Actor

Gene Hackman, The French Connection* 

 

Best Actress

Irene Papas, The Trojan Women*

 

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show*

 

Best Supporting Actress

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show*

[Bogie56]

The National Society of Film Critics Awards for 1971 were …

 

Best Actor

Peter Finch, Sunday, Bloody Sunday*

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange and The Raging Moon

Gene Hackman, The French Connection

Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist (70)

 

Best Actress

Jane Fonda, Klute* 

Bibi Andersson, The Touch

Dominique Sanda, The Conformist (70)

 

Best Supporting Actor

Bruce Dern, Drive, He Said*

Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop and The Hired Hand

Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show* 

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

Stefania Sandrelli, The Conformist (70)

 

[KilgoreTrout]

 

Juliet Berto, Out 1:  Noli me Tangere

 

I consider that a 2015 movie (it played for the first time ever in a public US theater in November 2015) but if y'all go by whatever IMDb default lists, then that's actually my choice for best actress too. An absolutely fantastic performance, the best I saw from anyone last year.

[LawrenceA]

I consider that a 2015 movie (it played for the first time ever in a public US theater in November 2015) but if y'all go by whatever IMDb default lists, then that's actually my choice for best actress too. An absolutely fantastic performance, the best I saw from anyone last year.

 

I just looked it up and...13 hours long?!? Ouch. Not so inconceivable on disc, with breaks.

[KilgoreTrout]

I just looked it up and...13 hours long?!? Ouch. Not so inconceivable on disc, with breaks.

I saw it in a theater in one sitting, with a 5 minute break roughly every 90 minutes. I more or less hated the first 4, maybe nearly 5 hours, particularly most of the first 90 minutes (there are endlessly long sequences of amateur actors doing childish improv games near the top), but stuck with it and then it got pretty excellent and stayed that way. The last 8-9 hours and especially about a 4 hour stretch in the middle are strong enough that even though I was nearly ready to walk out after the first third, the movie found a spot on my year-end top ten list. It has some of the best scenes and performances I've ever seen, even if it also has some excruciatingly dull sequences too.

 

I was very glad I saw it the way I did otherwise I think I would have just turned it off after 90 or so minutes of being bored and annoyed and never would have discovered how incredible the movie becomes. If you do ever feel like giving it a shot and aren't bowled over by the opening, keep going, think of it like a season of TV that takes awhile to find its footing but then soars.

[Swithin]

I saw it in a theater in one sitting, with a 5 minute break roughly every 90 minutes. I more or less hated the first 4, maybe nearly 5 hours, particularly most of the first 90 minutes (there are endlessly long sequences of amateur actors doing childish improv games near the top), but stuck with it and then it got pretty excellent and stayed that way. The last 8-9 hours and especially about a 4 hour stretch in the middle are strong enough that even though I was nearly ready to walk out after the first third, the movie found a spot on my year-end top ten list. It has some of the best scenes and performances I've ever seen, even if it also has some excruciatingly dull sequences too.

 

I was very glad I saw it the way I did otherwise I think I would have just turned it off after 90 or so minutes of being bored and annoyed and never would have discovered how incredible the movie becomes. If you do ever feel like giving it a shot and aren't bowled over by the opening, keep going, think of it like a season of TV that takes awhile to find its footing but then soars.

 

Missed that, tho the shorter Celine and Julie... is my favorite French film.

[Bogie56]

The BAFTA winners for 1971 were ….

 

Best Actor

Peter Finch, Sunday, Bloody Sunday*

Dirk Bogarde, Death In Venice

Albert Finney, Gumshoe

Dustin Hoffman, Little Big Man (70)

 

Best Actress

Glenda Jackson, Sunday, Bloody Sunday*

Julie Christie, The Go-Between

Jane Fonda, Klute

Nanette Newman, The Raging Moon

Lynn Carlin, Taking Off

 

Best Supporting Actor

Edward Fox, The Go-Getween* 

John Hurt, 10 Rillington Place

Ian Hendry, Get Carter

Michael Gough, The Go-Between

 

Best Supporting Actress

Margaret Leighton, The Go-Between* 

Jane Asher, Deep End (70)

Georgia Brown, The Raging Moon

Georgia Engel, Taking Off

[Bogie56]

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1971

 

1.  WARREN CLARKE (Dim), A Clockwork Orange

 

 

Warren Clarke (1947-2014) was my pick for best supporting actor of 1971.  He played a totally convincing dim-witted hooligan aptly named 'Dim' in A Clockwork Orange.  It was hard to believe that it was the same actor who years later had a big hit in Britain with the television series Dalziel & Pascoe in which he played a rough-around-the-edges police detective.

I also managed to catch him on the London stage as Winston Churchill in Three Days In May.

[Bogie56]

Here are Danny Peary’s Alternate Oscar choices for 1971.  Winners in bold.  

 

Best Actor

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange*

Gene Hackman, The French Connection

Jack Nicholson, Carnal Knowledge

George C. Scott, The Hospital

 

Best Actress

Jane Fonda, Klute*

Jenny Agutter, Walkabout

Verna Bloom, The Hired Hand

Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude

Glenda Jackson, Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Jessica Walter, Play Misty For Me

Kitty Winn, Panic In Needle Park

 

 

And here are Michael Gerbert’s Golden Armchair choices for 1971:

 

Best Actor

Gene Hackman, The French Connection*

 

Best Actress

Jane Fonda, Klute*

[Jlewis]

Here are Danny Peary’s Alternate Oscar choices for 1971.  Winners in bold.  

 

Best Actor

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange*

Gene Hackman, The French Connection

Jack Nicholson, Carnal Knowledge

George C. Scott, The Hospital

 

Best Actress

Jane Fonda, Klute*

Jenny Agutter, Walkabout

Verna Bloom, The Hired Hand

Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude

Glenda Jackson, Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Jessica Walter, Play Misty For Me

Kitty Winn, Panic In Needle Park

 

 

I guess I can tentatively agree with Danny Peary this time. His Alternate Oscars has some very odd opinions in it. It is my least favorite of his movie books, although I think he is an excellent writer and I have all three of his Cult Movies. The analysis he has on a number of movie titles are among the best ever written since he has a knack for seeing fascinating patterns and coincidences in storylines that most of us fail to notice. Too bad all of his movie writing was consolidated to the 1980s and early '90s. I would have loved a Cult Movies 4.

[Bogie56]

The Golden Globe Awards for 1971 were …

 

Best Actor in a Drama

Gene Hackman, The French Connection*

Peter Finch, Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

Jack Nicholson, Carnal Knowledge

George C. Scott, The Hospital

 

Best Actress in a Drama

Jane Fonda, Klute*

Dyan Cannon, Such Good Friends

Glenda Jackson, Mary, Queen of Scots

Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots

Jessica Walter, Play Misty For Me

 

Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical

Haim Topol, Fiddler on the Roof*

Bud Cort, Harold and Maude

Dean Jones, The Million Dollar Duck

Walter Matthau, Kotch

Gene Wilder, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

 

Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical

Twiggy, The Boy Friend*

Sandy Duncan, Star Spangled Girl

Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude

Angela Lansbury, Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Elaine May, A New Leaf

 

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show*

Tom Baker, Nicholas and Alexandra

Art Garfunkel, Carnal Knowledge

Paul Mann, Fiddler on the Roof

Jan-Michael Vincent, Going Home

 

Best Supporting Actresses

Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge*

Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

Diana Rigg, The Hospital

Maureen Stapleton, Plaza Suite

[Swithin]

 

Warren Clarke (1947-2014) was my pick for best supporting actor of 1971.  He played a totally convincing dim-witted hooligan aptly named 'Dim' in A Clockwork Orange.  It was hard to believe that it was the same actor who years later had a big hit in Britain with the television series Dalziel & Pascoe in which he played a rough-around-the-edges police detective.

I also managed to catch him on the London stage as Winston Churchill in Three Days In May.

 

 

I believe the only time I saw Warren Clarke on stage was the first time I went to the National Theatre in its (then) new home on the South Bank, in 1977, in Volpone, in a cast that also included Paul Scofield, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley, Ian Charleson, Elizabeth Spriggs, and Morag Hood. The last time I saw him was on television -- he played Poldark's uncle in the new series of Poldark.

 

[Bogie56]

The 1971 Berlin International Film Festival winners were…

 

Best Actor

Jean Gabin, Le Chat

 

Best Actresses

Shirley MacLaine, Desperate Characters*

Simone Signoret, Le Chat*

 

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The 1971 Cannes Film Festival winners were…

 

Best Actor

Ricardo Cucciolla, Sacco & Vanzetti

 

Best Actress

Kitty Winn, The Panic In Needle Park

[Bogie56]

The 1971 San Sebastian Film Festival winners were…

 

Best Actor

Vittorio Gassman, Brancaleone at the Crusades (70)

 

Best Actress

Graciela Borges, Chronicle of a Lady

 

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The 1971 Moscow International Film Festival winners were …

 

Best Actors

Richard Harris, Cromwell* (70)

Daniel Olbrychski, The Birch Wood* (70)

 

Best Actresses

Ada Rogovtseva, Hail Mary!*

Idalla Anreus, The Days of Water*

[Bogie56]

Here are some performances from 1971 that will be recognized in subsequent years …

 

Liv Ullman will be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 1972 for The Emigrants (1971).  She will also win the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award and the Golden Globe Best Dramatic Actress Award.

 

Mari Torocsik and Lili Darvas will be nominated for the National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Award in 1973 for Szarelem/Love (1971).  The Society will also nominate Torocsik in the Supporting Actress category.  I guess some Society critics saw it differently.

 

Bulle Ogier will be nominated for the National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Award in 1972 for La Salamandre (1971).

 

Gene Hackman will win the BAFTA Best Actor Award in 1972 for The French Connection (1971).

 

George C. Scott will be nominated for the BAFTA Best Actor Award in 1972 for The Hospital (1971) and They Might Be Giants (1971).

 

Marlon Brando will be nominated for the BAFTA Best Actor Award in 1972 for The Nightcomers (1971).

 

Stephane Audran will win the BAFTA Best Actress Award in 1973 for Just Before Nightfall (1971) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).

 

Ben Johnson will win the BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Award in 1972 for The Last Picture Show (1971).

 

Max Adrian will be nominated for the BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Award in 1972 for The Boy Friend (1971).

 

Cloris Leachman will win the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Award in 1972 for The Last Picture Show (1971).

 

Alberto Sordi will win the Berlin Film Festival Best Actor Award in 1972 for Detenuto in Attesa di Giudizio (1971).

[kingrat]

My choices in the supporting category for 1971 would be Leonard Frey and Rosalind Harris in Fiddler on the Roof, one of my favorite movie romantic couples. Norman Jewison shifts the focus of the film from comedy to drama, starting with the casting of Topol rather than Zero Mostel, but the subplot with the eldest daughter catches the perfect balance for romantic comedy. In the film, as opposed to most stage productions, "Miracle of Miracles" is the standout musical moment, and that has everything to do with the acting of Rosalind Harris and Leonard Frey.

 

Rosalind Harris is perhaps not conventionally pretty, but as a young woman in love she looks radiantly beautiful, and with a fine intelligence. How can an actor best known for a flamboyantly gay persona be convincing as a heterosexual lover? Watch Leonard Frey in this film.