1971 in film
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Columns: Rank | Title | Studio | Director(s) | Gross
1 | Fiddler on the Roof | United Artists | Norman Jewison | $80,500,000 | 2 | The French Connection | 20th Century Fox | William Friedkin | $51,700,000 | 3 | Diamonds Are Forever | United Artists | Guy Hamilton | $43,819,547 | 4 | Dirty Harry | Warner Bros. | Don Siegel | $35,976,000 | 5 | Summer of '42 | Warner Bros. | Robert Mulligan | $32,063,634 | 6 | The Last Picture Show | Columbia | Peter Bogdanovich | $29,133,000 | 7 | Carnal Knowledge | Embassy | Mike Nichols | $28,623,000 | 8 | A Clockwork Orange | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick | $26,589,355 | 9 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Walt Disney Pictures | Robert Stevenson | $17,871,174 | 10 | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Cinemation Industries | Melvin Van Peebles | $15,200,000 | 11 | Willard | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Daniel Mann | $14,545,941 | 12 | The Hospital | United Artists | Arthur Hiller | $14,142,409 | 13 | Shaft | MGM | Gordon Parks | $13,000,000 | 14 | Klute | Warner Bros. | Alan J. Pakula | $12,512,637 | 15 | The Andromeda Strain | Universal | Robert Wise | $12,376,563 | 16 | Escape from the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | Don Taylor | $12,348,905 | 17 | Bananas | United Artists | Woody Allen | $11,833,696 | 18 | Straw Dogs | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Sam Peckinpah | $11,148,828 | 19 | Cold Turkey | United Artists | Norman Lear | $11,000,000 | 20 | Play Misty for Me | Universal | Clint Eastwood | $10,600,000 | 21 | Kotch | Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Jack Lemmon | $10,000,000 | 22 | The Big Doll House | New World Pictures | Jack Hill | $10,000,000 | 23 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Warner Bros. | Robert Altman | $8,200,000 | 24 | The Omega Man | Warner Bros. | Boris Sagal | $8,000,000 | 25 | Big Jake | National General Pictures | George Sherman | $7,500,000