1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Actor: Gene Hackman - The French Connection Runners-up: Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday and Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute Runners-up: Gena Rowlands - Minnie and Moskowitz and Shirley MacLaine - Desperate Characters
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange Runners-up: Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show and Bernardo Bertolucci - <a href="./The_Conformist_(film)" title="The Conformist (film)" class="mw-redirect">The Conformist (Il conformista)
Best Film: A Clockwork Orange Runners-up: The Last Picture Show and The French Connection
Best Screenplay (tie): Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show Penelope Gilliatt - Sunday Bloody Sunday Runner-up: Éric Rohmer - Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show Runners-up: Warren Oates - The Hired Hand and Two-Lane Blacktop and Alan Webb - <a href="./King_Lear_(1971_UK_film)" title="King Lear (1971 UK film)" class="mw-redirect">King Lear
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show Runners-up: Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show and Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge

The 37th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1971. The winners were announced on 29 December 1971 and the awards were given on 23 January 1972.^[1]^[2]

37th New York Film Critics Circle Awards

January 23, 1972