1971 in film

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a film adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. It was directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1971....
(Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was a critically acclaimed Italy Italian neorealism film director and actor....
, Italy / W.

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The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York
  New York
  
  The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
  's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour
• The first permanent IMAX
  IMAX
  
  IMAX is a film film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and than conventional film display systems....
   projection system is installed at Ontario Place
  Ontario Place
  
  Ontario Place is a multiple use entertainment and seasonal amusement park in Toronto, Ontario and owned by the Canadian province of Ontario. Located on the shore of Lake Ontario, just south of Exhibition Place, it is approximately 4 km west of downtown Toronto....
  's "Cinesphere" in Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
  .
• April 23 - The film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  
  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States independent film, written, produced, scored, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles....
   becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	US Gross
1.	Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....	United Artists	$38,261,000
2.	Billy Jack Billy Jack Billy Jack is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion pictures centering on a fictional character of the same name, played by Tom Laughlin who also directed and co-wrote the script....	Warner Brothers	$32,500,000
3.	The French Connection The French Connection (film) The French Connection is a 1971 in film Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the The French Connection by Robin Moore....	20th Century Fox	$26,315,000
4.	Summer of '42 Summer of '42 Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...	Warner Bros	$20,500,000
5.	Diamonds Are Forever Diamonds Are Forever (film) Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the sixth to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....	United Artists	$19,727,000
6.	Dirty Harry Dirty Harry Dirty Harry is a crime film thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel. It is the first film in the Dirty Harry . Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan ....	Warner Brothers	$18,000,000
7.	A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange (film) A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....	Warner Brothers	$17,000,000
8.	Carnal Knowledge Carnal knowledge Carnal knowledge is an Archaism or legal euphemism for sexual intercourse....	Embassy	$14,075,000
9.	The Last Picture Show The Last Picture Show The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....	Columbia	$13,100,000
10.	Bedknobs and Broomsticks Bedknobs and Broomsticks Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions which combines live action and animation; it premiered on October 7 1971.... *	Disney	$11,426,000

(*) After Theatrical re-issue(s)
source:http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1971.shtml

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: The French Connection

The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 in film Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the The French Connection by Robin Moore....
- D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox

Best Director: William Friedkin

William Friedkin

William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....
- The French Connection

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection , and continued to appear in Hollywood films playing major roles, including Harry Caul in The Conversation, Norman Dale in Hoosiers, Agent Rupert Anderso...
- The French Connection

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
- Klute

Klute

Klute is a 1971 in film film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson (actor)

Ben "Son" Johnson Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States film actor who was mainly cast in Western . He was also a rodeo cowboy, stunt performer, and rancher....
- The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: - Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
- The Last Picture Show

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a film adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. It was directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1971....
(Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was a critically acclaimed Italy Italian neorealism film director and actor....
, Italy / W. Germany

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: The French Connection

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Gene Hackman - The French Connection

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Jane Fonda - Klute

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof (film)

Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 Cinema of the United States film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Topol

Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol , often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli theater and film performers....
- Fiddler on the Roof

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Twiggy

Twiggy

Twiggy is an English Model , actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. In the 1960s, at 16, she became the first prominent teenage model....
- The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend is a musical theater by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s, a similar period of peace and gradual recovery after the rigours of World War I....

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: William Friedkin - The French Connection

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini), directed by Vittorio De Sica, Italy / W. Germany

Films released in 1971

• A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange (film)
  
  A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
  
• And Now For Something Completely Different
  And Now For Something Completely Different
  
  And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons....
  
• The Andromeda Strain
  The Andromeda Strain (film)
  
  The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 in film Science fiction film, based on the The Andromeda Strain published in 1969 in literature by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of outer space origin that causes rapid, fatal blood blood clot....
  
• The Barefoot Executive
  The Barefoot Executive
  
  The Barefoot Executive is a live-action film released by the Walt Disney Company in 1971 starring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn , Wally Cox, Heather North and John Ritter , about a pet chimpanzee who can predict the popularity of television programs....
  
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  
  Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions which combines live action and animation; it premiered on October 7 1971....
  
• Big Jake
  Big Jake (film)
  
  Big Jake is a 1971 in film Western film, starring John Wayne and directed by George Sherman....
  
• Billy Jack
  Billy Jack
  
  Billy Jack is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion pictures centering on a fictional character of the same name, played by Tom Laughlin who also directed and co-wrote the script....
   Re-Released in 1973
• Born to Win
  Born to Win
  
  Born to Win is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Ivan Passer....
  
• The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend
  
  The Boy Friend is a musical theater by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s, a similar period of peace and gradual recovery after the rigours of World War I....
  
• Brian's Song
  Brian's Song
  
  Brian's Song is a 1971 in film made-for-TV movie, recalling the details of the life of Brian Piccolo , a White American American football player stricken with terminal cancer, and his friendship with African American Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers , who helps him through the difficult strugg...
  
• Carnal Knowledge
  Carnal Knowledge (film)
  
  Carnal Knowledge is a 1971 United States drama film. The film was Film director by Mike Nichols and screenwriter by Jules Feiffer....
  
• Carry On at Your Convenience
  Carry On at Your Convenience
  
  Carry On at Your Convenience, released in 1971 in film, is the 22nd film of the Carry On films and was the first box office failure of the series....
  
• Carry On Henry
  Carry On Henry
  
  Carry On Henry is the 21st of the Carry On films series and was released in 1971 in film. It tells a fictionalised story involving Sid James as Henry VIII, who chases after Barbara Windsor's character Bettina....
  
• Countess Dracula
  Countess Dracula
  
  'Countess Dracula' is a 1971 in film Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth B?thory. It is in many ways atypical of Hammer's canon, but can be considered related to that studio's Karnstein Trilogy attempting to broaden Hammer's output from Horror of Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein'...
  
• Death in Venice
  Death in Venice (film)
  
  Death in Venice is a 1971 film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Dirk Bogarde and Bj?rn Andr?sen. The film is based on the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann....
   (Morte a Venezia)
• The Devils
  The Devils (film)
  
  The Devils is a film directed by Ken Russell starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, and based on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley and the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book....
  
• Diamonds Are Forever
  Diamonds Are Forever (film)
  
  Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the sixth to star Sean Connery as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
  
• Dirty Harry
  Dirty Harry
  
  Dirty Harry is a crime film thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel. It is the first film in the Dirty Harry . Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan ....
  
• Duel
  Duel (film)
  
  Duel is a 1971 in film television movie about a motorist on a remote and lonely road being stalked by a large tanker truck and its almost unseen driver....
  
• The Emigrants
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes is a 1971 science fiction film starring Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, and Bradford Dillman. It is the second sequel to the Planet of the Apes movie of 1968, the first sequel being Beneath the Planet of the Apes ....
  
• The French Connection
  The French Connection (film)
  
  The French Connection is a 1971 in film Hollywood crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the The French Connection by Robin Moore....
  
• Fiddler on the Roof
  Fiddler on the Roof (film)
  
  Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 Cinema of the United States film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three Academy Awards, including one for arranger-conductor John Williams....
  
• Gamera vs. Zigra
  Gamera vs. Zigra
  
  is a 1971 Kaiju eiga featuring the popular Gamera character created by Kadokawa Pictures. Gamera vs. Zigra was released in the United States by AIP-TV, and later by Sandy Frank....
  
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
  
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a film adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. It was directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1971....
   (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
• The Go-Between
  The Go-Between (film)
  
  The Go-Between is a 1970 in film United Kingdom film adaptation of the The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley directed by Joseph Losey and starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, and Edward Fox , among others....
   Palme d'Or winner
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah
  Godzilla vs. Hedorah
  
  , also known as Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, is a 1971 film. The eleventh film in Toho Co. Ltd.'s Godzilla series, it was directed by Yoshimitsu Banno with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano....
  
• Guddi
  Guddi
  
  Guddi is a 1971 film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Gulzar . It starred Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan and Utpal Dutt. It is Jaya Bachchan 's career making film in which she plays a school girl obsessed with the actor Dharmendra, who plays himself....
  
• Harold and Maude
  Harold and Maude
  
  Harold and Maude is a cult classic film directed by Hal Ashby in 1971 in film. The film, featuring slapstick, dark humour, and existentialist drama, revolves around the exploits of a morbid young man – Harold – who drifts away from the life that his detached mother prescribes for him, as he develops a relationship with septua...
  
• The Hired Hand
  The Hired Hand
  
  The Hired Hand is a 1971 western directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom....
  
• The Hospital
  The Hospital
  
  The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was awarded the 1972 in film Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ....
  
• I, Monster
  I, Monster
  
  'I, Monster' is a 1971 United Kingdom horror film directed by Stephen Weeks for Amicus Productions. It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr....
  
• Julius Caesar
  Julius Caesar (1970 film)
  
  Julius Caesar is a independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival....
   (U.S. release)
• Just avant la nuit (aka Just Before Nightfall)
• Klute
  Klute
  
  Klute is a 1971 in film film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider....
  , starring Jane Fonda
  Jane Fonda
  
  Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
  
• Kotch
  Kotch
  
  Kotch is a 1971 in film, Academy Award-nominated comedy film which tells the story of an elderly man who runs away so as not to be put into a nursing home, and strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenage girl....
  , starring Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  
  Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
  
• The Last Picture Show
  The Last Picture Show
  
  The Last Picture Show is a 1971 in film film drama directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry....
  
• Love
  Love (1971 film)
  
  Love is a 1971 in film Hungary drama film directed by K?roly Makk. Based on a novel by Tibor D?ry, it stars Lili Darvas and Mari T?r?csik. It won three prizes, including the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival....
  
• Macbeth
  Macbeth (1971 film)
  
  Macbeth is a 1971 in film film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Scots Lord who becomes King of Scotland through deceit, treachery, and murder....
  
• Made for Each Other
  Made for Each Other (1971 film)
  
  Made for Each Other is a 1971 in film feature film directed by Robert B. Bean.Both starring and written by the husband and wife team of Ren?e Taylor and Joseph Bologna, the movie traces the relationship of Pandora and Giggy, a seemingly incompatible couple who meet in a group therapy session and fall in love....
  
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 in film Western motion picture by director Robert Altman.One of Altman's typically Naturalism films, the director called McCabe an "anti-western film" because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions....
  
• Melody
  Melody (1971 film)
  
  Melody is a United Kingdom film released in 1971 in film. It is about "puppy love." Although initially a box office disappointment in both the United States and Britain it has over the years become a cult classic....
  
• Mon oncle Antoine
  Mon oncle Antoine
  
  Mon oncle Antoine is a 1971 in film National Film Board of Canada French language drama film. Qu?b?cois film director Claude Jutra co-wrote the screenplay with Cl?ment Perron and directed what is one of the most acclaimed works in Canadian film history....
  , considered by critics the greatest Canadian film of all time
• A New Leaf
  A New Leaf
  
  A New Leaf is a black comedy based on a short story by Jack Ritchie, starring Elaine May, Walter Matthau, George Rose and James Coco. Better known for her collaboration as a stage comedienne with The Graduate director Mike Nichols, May also wrote and directed ....
  , starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  
  Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
  
• Nicholas and Alexandra
  Nicholas and Alexandra
  
  Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 in film biographical film which tells the story of the last of Russia's monarchs, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse....
  
• The Omega Man
  The Omega Man
  
  The Omega Man , directed by Boris Sagal, is a science fiction film, featuring Charlton Heston, based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson....
  
• The Panic in Needle Park
  The Panic in Needle Park
  
  The Panic in Needle Park is a 1971 in film United States film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino in his second film appearance....
   starring Al Pacino
  Al Pacino
  
  Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time....
  
• Play Misty For Me
  Play Misty for Me
  
  Play Misty for Me is a 1971 in film psychological thriller film, film director by and starring Clint Eastwood, in his directorial debut. The original music score was composed by Dee Barton....
   starring Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  
• Plaza Suite
  Plaza Suite
  
  Plaza Suite is a play by Neil Simon.It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel....
  , starring Walter Matthau
  Walter Matthau
  
  Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
  
• A Safe Place
  A Safe Place
  
  A Safe Place is a 1971 film starring Jack Nicholson, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles and Phil Proctor and directed by Henry Jaglom....
  
• Shaft
  Shaft (1971 film)
  
  Shaft is a 1971 in film USA blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster....
  
• She Killed in Ecstasy
  She Killed in Ecstasy
  
  She Killed in Ecstasy is a 1971 exploitation film written and directed by Jesus Franco under the psuedonym "Frank Hollmann." In this movie the termination of a doctor's project leads to his suicide, which in turn leads to his wife taking revenge on those responsible for terminating said project by seducing then killing them....
  
• Skin Game
  Skin Game
  
  Skin Game is a 1971 movie comedy starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr....
  
• Something Big
  Something Big
  
  Something Big is a 1971 United States motion picture produced by Andrew V. McLaglen and James Lee Barrett . It stars Dean Martin and Brian Keith....
  
• Straw Dogs
  Straw Dogs
  
  Straw Dogs is a 1971 in film film directed by Sam Peckinpah which stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George . A dark, domestic drama psychological thriller, the screenplay by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman is based on the novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams....
  
• Summer of '42
  Summer of '42
  
  Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
  
• Support Your Local Gunfighter
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  
  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States independent film, written, produced, scored, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles....
  
• The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  The Tales of Beatrix Potter
  
  The Tales of Beatrix Potter is a 1971 in film, directed by Reginald Mills, adapted to screen from Beatrix Potter's children stories with animal characters....
  
• They Call Me Trinity
  They Call Me Trinity
  
  They Call Me Trinity also known as My Name is Trinity, is a 1971 in film Cinema of Italy spaghetti western film starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer....
  , spaghetti western
  Spaghetti Western
  
  Spaghetti Western, also known in some countries in mainland Europe as the Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad Genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Cinema of Italy, usually in coproduction with a Cinema of Spain....
   with Terence Hill
  Terence Hill
  
  Terence Hill is an Italy actor....
  
• THX 1138
  THX 1138
  
  THX 1138 is a 1971 in film science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, includi...
  
• The Touch of Satan
  The Touch of Satan
  
  The Touch of Satan is a 1971 in film horror film. It was directed by Tom Laughlin, and it starred Michael Berry and Emby Mellay in their debut roles....
  
• Trafic
  Trafic
  
  Trafic is a 1971 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Trafic was the last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society....
  
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
  Twitch of the Death Nerve
  
  Twitch of the Death Nerve is a 1971 in film Cinema of Italy horror film thriller directed by Mario Bava. Bava cowrote the screenplay with Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filippo Ottoni and Sergio Canevari, with story credit given to Dardano Sacchetti and Franco Barberi....
  
• Two-Lane Blacktop
  Two-Lane Blacktop
  
  Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman, starring singer-songwriter James Taylor, Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird....
  
• Valdez Is Coming
  Valdez Is Coming
  
  Valdez Is Coming is a 1971 in film western film starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name....
  
• Vanishing Point
  Vanishing point
  
  A vanishing point is a point in a Perspective drawing to which parallel lines appear to converge. The number and placement of the vanishing points determines which perspective technique is being used....
  
• Von Richthofen and Brown
  Von Richthofen and Brown
  
  Von Richthofen and Brown, also known as The Red Baron is a 1971 film directed by Roger Corman. It starred John Phillip Law and Don Stroud as the titular characters....
   (a.k.a. The Red Baron)
• Wake in Fright
  Wake in Fright
  
  Wake in Fright is a 1971 in film Cinema of Australia directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty. The screenplay was by Evan Jones, based on Kenneth Cook?s 1961 in literature novel of the same name....
  
• Walkabout
  Walkabout (film)
  
  Walkabout is a 1971 United Kingdom film set in Australia. Loosely based on Walkabout by James Vance Marshall, it was written by Edward Bond and directed by Nicolas Roeg, and earned Roeg a nomination for the Palme d'Or award....
  , directed by Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  
  'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  
• Waterloo
  Waterloo (film)
  
  Waterloo is a Soviet Union-Italy film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and was famous for its lavish battle scenes....
   (U.S. release)
• Le Wazzou polygame
  Le Wazzou polygame
  
  Le Wazzou polygame is a 1971 in film Nigerien/France film about polygamy directed by and starring Oumarou Ganda. It was produced by Argos Films in France....
  
• Werewolves on Wheels
  Werewolves on Wheels
  
  Werewolves on Wheels is a 1971 in film exploitation film that blends two genres: the outlaw biker film and the traditional horror movie....
  
• Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?
  Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?
  
  Who Killed Mary What's Er' Name? is a 1971 film starring comedian and actor Red Buttons, it's also known as "Death of a Hooker". Since it's original theatrical release it was only released on VHS , and is now out-of- print....
  
• Wild Riders
• Willard
  Willard (1971 film)
  
  Willard is a 1971 in film horror film starring Bruce Davison and Ernest Borgnine, movie director by Daniel Mann. The movie is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert , and was nominated for an Edgar Award for best picture....
  
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 in film film based on the 1964 in literature Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
  
• The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven
  
  The Working Class Goes to Heaven is a 1971 film directed by Elio Petri. It depicts a factory worker's realisation of his own condition as a simple "tool" in the process of production and, implicitly, his struggle with the trade unions....
  , Palme d'Or winner
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
  W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
  
  W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism is a 1971 film by SFRY director Du?an Makavejev that explores the relationship between communism politics and Human sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich....
  

Births

• January 2 - Taye Diggs
  Taye Diggs
  
  Taye Diggs is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway theatre musical Rent , the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice....
  , actor
• January 11 - Mary J. Blige
  Mary J. Blige
  
  Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....
  , musician
• January 15 - Regina King
  Regina King
  
  Regina King is an American film and television actress....
  , actor
• January 17 - Kid Rock
  Kid Rock
  
  Robert James Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is a rapper turned singer/songwriter with five Grammy nominations. He was born in Romeo, Michigan on January 17, 1971....
  , musician
• February 1 - Michael C. Hall
  Michael C. Hall
  
  Michael Carlisle Hall is a Golden Globes- and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, best known for his roles as David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and Dexter Morgan of the Showtime series Dexter ....
  , actor
• February 1 - Jill Kelly
  Jill Kelly
  
  Jill Kelly is the stage name used by an United States pornographic actor, director and producer....
  , adult actress
• February 11 - Damien Lewis, actor
• February 15 - Alex Borstein
  Alex Borstein
  
  Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein is an United States actress, voice acting, writer and comedian. She is best known for her roles on the Fox Broadcasting Company sketch comedy series MADtv and the animated series Family Guy....
  , actress
• February 17 - Denise Richards
  Denise Richards
  
  Denise Lee Richards is an United States Actor and former fashion model. She became famous in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers , Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough....
  , actress
• February 24 - Stephen Petit, actor and musician
• March 7 - Peter Sarsgaard
  Peter Sarsgaard
  
  John Peter Sarsgaard is an American film and stage actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue ....
  , actor
• March 7 - Rachel Weisz
  Rachel Weisz
  
  Rachel Hannah Weisz is an Academy Award-winning England actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns....
  , actress
• March 13 - Annabeth Gish
  Annabeth Gish
  
  'Annabeth Gish' is an United States actress known for starring roles in Shag , Mystic Pizza and Double Jeopardy . She is probably best known for her role as Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files....
  , actress
• March 27 - Nathan Fillion
  Nathan Fillion
  
  Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor known for his lead role as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and his role as Joey Buchanan on One Life to Live....
  , actor
• March 31 - Ewan McGregor
  Ewan McGregor
  
  Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
   actor
• April 1 - Method Man
  Method Man
  
  Clifford Smith , better known by his stage name Method Man, is an United Statesn hip hop music, record producer, actor and member of the hip hop culture collective Wu-Tang Clan....
   actor and musician
• April 12 - Shannon Doherty actress
• April 18 - David Tennant
  David Tennant
  
  David Tennant is a Scotland actor. Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV role as the Tenth Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who as well as in Casanova , and his film role as Death Eater#Barty Crouch, Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ....
   actor
• May 14 - Sofia Coppola
  Sofia Coppola
  
  Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
  , actress, writer, and director
• May 27 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez singer and actress
• August 31 - Chris Tucker
  Chris Tucker
  
  Christopher "Chris" Tucker is an United States actor and comedian most widely known for his roles as Smokey in Friday and James Carter in the Rush Hour trilogy....
  , actor
• June 4 - Noah Wyle
  Noah Wyle
  
  Noah Strausser Wyle is an United States TV and film actor, perhaps best known for his role as John Carter on the television program ER , as well as for playing Steve Jobs in the 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley and the librarian Flynn Carsen in The Librarian franchise....
   actor
• June 5 - Mark Wahlberg
  Mark Wahlberg
  
  Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....
   actor and musician
• June 16 - Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Shakur
  
  Tupac Amaru Shakur , also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American Rapping. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist....
   actor and musican
• July 1 - Missy Elliott
  Missy Elliott
  
  Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American rapping, singing, songwriter, and record producer. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is the only female rapper to have six albums certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, including one double platinum ....
   musician and actress
• July 16 - Corey Feldman
  Corey Feldman
  
  Corey Scott Feldman is an United States film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films The Goonies and Stand by Me ....
   actor
• August 29 - Carla Gugino
  Carla Gugino
  
  Carla Gugino is an American actress known for her roles of Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids film trilogy, and as the lead characters of the television series Karen Sisco and Threshold ....
  , actress.
• October 29 - Winona Ryder
  Winona Ryder
  
  Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
  , actress.
• September 8 - Winona Ryder
  Winona Ryder
  
  Winona Laura Horowitz , better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas , her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetle Juice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth subculture teenager, in a performance that gained her critical an...
  , actress, model
• September 16 - Amy Poehler
  Amy Poehler
  
  Amy Meredith Poehler is an United States comedian and actress. She was a cast member and parody news anchor on the NBC television program Saturday Night Live from 2001 until shortly after the birth of her child in 2008....
  , actress
• September 18 - Jada Pinkett-Smith, actress
• September 21 - Luke Wilson
  Luke Wilson
  
  Luke Cunningham Wilson is an United States film actor. He is the younger brother of Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson , and is considered a member of the Frat Pack....
  , actor
• October 20 - Snoop Dogg
  Snoop Dogg
  
  Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg , is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor....
  , musician and actor
• November 25 - Christina Applegate
  Christina Applegate
  
  Christina Applegate is an Emmy Award-winning American actress, known for playing Kelly Bundy#Kelly Bundy on the long-running FOX Broadcasting Company sitcom Married? with Children....
   actress
• December 7 - Chasey Lain
  Chasey Lain
  
  Chasey Lain is an United States pornographic actor. She grew up in Newport, NC . She became a stripper as a young adult. She pursued a career in California, starring in many erotic movies and making appearances in some mainstream movies....
   adult actress
• December 23 - Corey Haim
  Corey Haim
  
  Corey Ian Haim is a Canada actor, known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol. He starred in a number of films such as Lucas , The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, and in particular, collaborated numerous times with Corey Feldman and the pair were dubbed "The Two Coreys." Haim and Feldman currently...
  , actor
• December 26 - Jared Leto
  Jared Leto
  
  Jared Joseph Leto is an United States actor and musician. His first major acting performance was as Jordan Catalano in the television series My So-Called Life....
  , actor and musician

Deaths

• January 5 - Douglas Shearer
  Douglas Shearer
  
  Douglas G. Shearer was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures....
  , pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
• January 15 - John Dall
  John Dall
  
  John Dall was an United States actor.Dall is best remembered today for the parts of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy, but first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green , for...
  , actor
• February 26 - Fernandel
  Fernandel
  
  Fernand Joseph D?sir? Contandin , better known as Fernandel, was a France actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, and grown up in Piedmont, Italy, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues....
  , actor
• March 8 – Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  , silent screen comedian
• March 15 - Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels
  
  Bebe Daniels was an United States actor. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England....
  , actress
• May 1 - Glenda Farrell
  Glenda Farrell
  
  Glenda Farrell was an American film actress....
  , actress
• May 27 - Chips Rafferty
  Chips Rafferty
  
  Chips Rafferty Order of the British Empire was an Australian actor....
  , Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
  n actor
• May 28 - Audie Murphy
  Audie Murphy
  
  Audie Leon Murphy was a much-decorated American soldier who served in the European Theater during World War II. He later became an actor, appearing in 44 American films, and also found some success as a country music composer....
  , World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
   hero
  Hero
  
  A hero , in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,their Greek hero cult being one of the most distinctive features of Religion in ancient Greece....
   became film actor after the war
• July 3 - Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  
  James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
  , songwriter, poet, musician
• July 6 - Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  , musician, actor
• July 23 - Van Heflin
  Van Heflin
  
  Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning United States film and theater actor. By his own acknowledgment not a classically handsome actor, he played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man....
  , actor
• August 15 - Paul Lukas
  Paul Lukas
  
  Paul Lukas was a Hungary Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor.Born P?l Luk?cs in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt ....
  , actor
• September 7 - Spring Byington
  Spring Byington
  
  Spring Byington was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress, best remembered for working as a key MGM contract player....
  , actress
• September 10 - Pier Angeli
  Pier Angeli
  
  Pier Angeli was an Italy-born Actor....
  , actress
• September 11 - Bella Darvi
  Bella Darvi
  
  Bella Darvi was a Poland French actress....
  , actress
• October 11 - Chester Conklin
  Chester Conklin
  
  Chester Cooper Conklin was an United States comedian and actor. He appeared in over 280 films, about half of them in the silent film era....
  , actor
• October 26 - Vincent Coleman
  Vincent Coleman
  
  This is for the actor. For the heroic train dispatcher, see Vince Coleman .Vincent Coleman was an United States stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s....
  , actor
• November 17 - Gladys Cooper
  Gladys Cooper
  
  Dame Gladys Constance Cooper Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated England actress....
  , actress
• December 13 - Dita Parlo
  Dita Parlo
  
  Dita Parlo was a German people film actor.Born Grethe Gerda Kornst?dt in Stettin , Parlo made her first film appearance in Homecoming in 1928 and quickly became a popular actress in Germany....
  , actress
• December 18 - Diana Lynn
  Diana Lynn
  
  Diana Lynn was an United States actor.Born Dolores Marie Loehr in Los Angeles, California, Lynn was considered a child prodigy because of her exceptional abilities as a pianist at an early age, and by the age of 12 was playing with the Los Angeles Junior Symphony Orchestra....
  , actress
• December 28 - Max Steiner
  Max Steiner
  
  Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
  , film composer
• December 30 - Dorothy Comingore
  Dorothy Comingore
  
  Dorothy Comingore was an United States film actress, best known for her portrayal of Susan Alexander in Orson Welles's critically acclaimed movie Citizen Kane ....
  , actress best known as Susan Kane in Citizen Kane
  Citizen Kane
  
  Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
  
• December 31 - Pete Duel
  Pete Duel
  
  Pete Duel was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series, Alias Smith and Jones.BiographyEarly life...
   31, actor (suicide
  Suicide
  
  Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
  )
• December 31 - Marin Sais
  Marin Sais
  
  Marin Sais was an United States motion picture actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Sais' acting career spanned over four decades and she is possibly best recalled for appearing in Westerns themed films....
  , actress