<<< 37th New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1971) >>>

Best Film:

	A Clockwork Orange
	Runners-up: The Last Picture Show and The French Connection

Best Director:

	Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
	Runners-up: Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show and Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist (Il conformista)

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 Supporting Actor:

	Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
	Runners-up: Warren Oates - The Hired Hand and Two-Lane Blacktop and Alan Webb - King Lear

Best Supporting Actress:

	Ellen Burstyn - The Last Picture Show
	Runners-up: Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show and Ann-Margret - Carnal Knowledge

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)