1971 · 19 nominations · 4 winners · 2 categories
Patton
Francis Ford Coppola
Winner
The Out-of-Towners
Neil Simon
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Billy Wilder
Five Easy Pieces
Carole Eastman (As Adrien Joyce)
Five Easy pieces
Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce)
Love Story
Erich Segal
Start the Revolution Without Me
Fred Freeman
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk
Gabriel Walsh
The Cheyenne Social Club
James Lee Barrett
M*A*S*H
Ring Lardner, Jr.
I Never Sang for My Father
Robert Anderson
Catch-22
Buck Henry, Buck Henry
Little Big Man
Calder Willingham
Airport
George Seaton
The Great White Hope
Howard Sackler
The Twelve Chairs
Mel Brooks
Lovers and Other Strangers
Renée Taylor
Where's Poppa
Robert Klane