The Academy Awards
1970 Best Picture Patton Airport Five Easy Pieces Love Story M*A*S*H Best Director Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton Federico Fellini - Fellini Satyricon Arthur Hiller - Love Story Robert Altman - M*A*S*H Ken Russell - Women in Love Best Actor George C. Scott - Patton Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope Jack Nicholson - Five Easy Pieces Ryan O’Neal - Love Story Best Actress Glenda Jackson - Women in Love Jane Alexander - The Great White Hope Ali MacGraw - Love Story Sarah Miles - Ryan’s Daughter Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife Best Supporting Actor John Mills - Ryan’s Daughter Richard Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers Chief Dan George - Little Big Man Gene Hackman - I Never Sang for My Father John Marley - Love Story Best Supporting Actress Helen Hayes - Airport Karen Black - Five Easy Pieces Lee Grant - The Landlord Sally Kellerman - M*A*S*H Maureen Stapleton - Airport Best Original Screenplay Patton Five Easy Pieces Joe Love Story My Night at Maud’s Best Adapted Screenplay M*A*S*H Airport I Never Sang for My Father Lovers and Other Strangers Women in Love Best Musical Score Francis Lai - Love Story Alfred Newman - Airport Frank Cordell - Cromwell Jerry Goldsmith - Jerry Goldsmith Henry Mancini - Sunflower (I Girasoli) Best Original Song “For All We Know” - Lovers and Other Strangers “Pieces of Dreams” - Pieces of Dreams “Thank You Very Much” - Scrooge “Till Love Touches Your Life” - Madron “Whistling Away the Dark” - Darling Lili |
Hot Toasty Rag Awards (video presentation here)
1970 Best Picture Tora! Tora! Tora! The Hawaiians Little Big Man Best Director Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Roshio Masuda - Tora! Tora! Tora! Cy Howard - Lovers and Other Strangers Robert Aldrich - Too Late the Hero Best Actor Melvyn Douglas - I Never Sang for My Father Dustin Hoffman - Little Big Man James Earl Jones - The Great White Hope Robert Mitchum - Ryan’s Daughter Gregory Peck - I Walk the Line Anthony Quinn - A Walk in the Spring Rain Best Actress Sophia Loren - Sunflower (I Girasoli) Ingrid Bergman - A Walk in the Spring Rain Faye Dunaway - Puzzle of a Downfall Child Liza Minnelli - Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Best Supporting Actor Richard Castellano - Lovers and Other Strangers Van Heflin - Airport Chief Dan George - Little Big Man Ken Howard - Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Trevor Howard - Ryan’s Daughter Best Supporting Actress Tina Chen - The Hawaiians Dame Judith Anderson - A Man Called Horse Estelle Parsons - I Walk the Line Best Dramatic Screenplay Tora! Tora! Tora! Too Late the Hero Zig Zag Best Comedic Screenplay Lovers and Other Strangers The Out of Towners The Owl and the Pussycat Best Musical Score The Esteemed Alfred Newman - Airport Henry Mancini - The Hawaiians Henry Mancini - Sunflower (I Girasoli) Jerry Goldsmith - Tora! Tora! Tora! Best Original Song “For All We Know” - Lovers and Other Strangers “Pieces of Dreams” - Pieces of Dreams “Thank You Very Much” - Scrooge “Till Love Touches Your Life” - Madron “Whistling Away the Dark” - Darling Lili |
Notes from the Members of the Board:
The 1970s were a decade full of films centering on political upheaval, and it was a very fitting way to start off with a sweep of Tora! Tora! Tora!, a film that exposed painful truths about Pearl Harbor.
Hidden Gem: A Walk in the Spring Rain
- M.E.
The 1970s were a decade full of films centering on political upheaval, and it was a very fitting way to start off with a sweep of Tora! Tora! Tora!, a film that exposed painful truths about Pearl Harbor.
Hidden Gem: A Walk in the Spring Rain
- M.E.