Best movies of 1971 that are oscar winners

Actors : Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.

Actors : Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Actors : Leonard Frey, Topol, Molly Picon, Norma Crane,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Sam Jaffe,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.