Oscar Rewrite: 1971

 

Best Picture: The French Connection A Clockwork Orange

Best Director: William Friedkin (The French Connection) Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)

Best Actor: Gene Hackman (The French Connection)

Best Actress: Jane Fonda (Klute) Ruth Gordon (Harold & Maude)

Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show) Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka)

Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)

Best Original Screenplay: The Hospital   Dirty Harry

Best Adapted Screenplay: The French Connection   Shaft

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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