Top Movies: 1971-1975
While we were living in bucolic Williamstown, films about crime -- The
French Connection, Klute, The Sting, The Godfather, The
Godfather: Part II, and Murder on the Orient Express -- were all the
rage. Following are major Academy Awards given out in the early 70s.
Major Academy Awards for 1971
- Best Picture: The French Connection
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Gene Hackman in The French
Connection
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jane Fonda in Klute
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ben Johnson in The Last
Picture Show
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Cloris Leachman in The
Last Picture Show
- Best Director: William Friedkin for The French
Connection
Major Academy Awards for 1972
- Best Picture: The Godfather
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Marlon Brando in The
Godfather
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Liza Minnelli in Cabaret
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Joel Grey in Cabaret
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Eileen Heckart in Butterflies
Are Free
- Best Director: Bob Fosse for Cabaret
Major Academy Awards for 1973
- Best Picture: The Sting
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jack Lemmon in Save the
Tiger
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Glenda Jackson in A
Touch of Class
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: John Houseman in The
Paper Chase
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Tatum O'Neal in Paper
Moon
- Best Director: George Roy Hill for The Sting
Major Academy Awards for 1974
- Best Picture: The Godfather: Part II
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Art Carney in Harry and
Tonto
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Ellen Burstyn in Alice
Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Robert DeNiro in The
Godfather: Part II
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Ingrid Bergman in Murder
on the Orient Express
- Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather:
Part II
Major Academy Awards for 1975
- Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jack Nicholson in One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Louise Fletcher in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: George Burns in The
Sunshine Boys
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Lee Grant in Shampoo
- Best Director: Milos Forman for One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest
Source: The Internet Movie Database
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