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Events

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
The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.
April 23 - The film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971.

Top grossing films

:North America #Love Story
#Little Big Man
#Summer of '42
#Ryan's Daughter
#The Owl and the Pussycat #The Aristocats
#Carnal Knowledge #Willard #The Andromeda Strain #Big Jake

Academy Awards

Best Picture: The French Connection
- D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox
Best Director: William Friedkin - The French Connection
Best Actor
: Gene Hackman
- The French Connection
Best Actress
: Jane Fonda
- Klute
Best Supporting Actor
: Ben Johnson
- The Last Picture Show
Best Supporting Actress
: - Cloris Leachman
- The Last Picture Show

Births

February 17 - Denise Richards
, actress
March 31 - Ewan McGregor
April 18 - David Tennant
May 14 - Sofia Coppola
August 31 - Chris Tucker
, actor
October 29 - Winona Ryder
, American actress.
November 25 - Christina Applegate

Deaths

January 5 - Douglas Shearer
, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
January 15 - John Dall
, actor
February 26 - Fernandel
, actor
March 8 – Harold Lloyd
, silent screen comedian
March 15 - Bebe Daniels
, actress
May 1 - Glenda Farrell
, actress
May 27 - Chips Rafferty, Australian actor
May 28 - Audie Murphy
, World War II hero became film actor after the war
July 3 - Jim Morrison
, songwriter, poet, musician
July 6 - Louis Armstrong, musician, actor
July 23 - Van Heflin
, actor
August 15 - Paul Lukas
, actor
September 7 - Spring Byington
, actress
September 10 - Pier Angeli
, actress
September 11 - Bella Darvi
, actress
October 11 - Chester Conklin
, actor
November 17 - Gladys Cooper
, actress
December 13 - Dita Parlo
, actress
December 18 - Diana Lynn
, actress
December 28 - Max Steiner, film composer
December 30 - Dorothy Comingore
, actress best known as Susan Kane in Citizen Kane
December 31 - Pete Duel 31, actor (suicide)

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