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February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music.The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.
The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was held on April 15, 1971, and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970. The Awards, without a host for the third consecutive year, were broadcast by NBC for the first time in 11 years.
This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events. 19th century in film; 20th century in film: 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s; 21st century in film: 2000s – 2010s – 2020s
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 1 Punishment Park: Project X Distribution / Chartwell / Francoise: Peter Watkins (director/screenplay); Carmen Argenziano, Harold Beaulieu, Jim Bohan, Stan Armsted, Paul Alelyanes, Mark Keats, Gladys Golden, Sanford Golden, George Gregory, Katherine Quittner, Mary Ellen Kleinhall
He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While in his twenties, Welles directed a number of stage productions before creating the infamous 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells 's novel The War of the Worlds .
Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906: The Story of the Kelly Gang: Ned Kelly: Frank Mills: 1909: The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata: Ludwig van Beethoven: Harry Baur: The Life of Moses: Moses: Pat Hartigan: Edgar Allen Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: Herbert Yost: Saul and David: King David: Maurice Costello: King Saul: William V ...
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was voted the greatest film of all time by Empire readers in "The 201 Greatest Movies of All Time" poll taken in March 2006. [31] Titanic (1997) was voted the greatest hit of all time in a poll of 6,000 movie fans conducted by English-language newspaper China Daily in March 2008. [32]