1971 FAMAS Awards


The 19th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1971 for the Outstanding Achievements for the year 1970.
Mga Anghel na Walang Langit of FPJ Productions a movie about the life of street children won the most awards with 6 wins including the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and Best Story for Ronwaldo Reyes. This is the first movie where FPJ used the name Ronwaldo Reyes. Except from close associates in the production, no one knew who Ronwaldo Reyes was until the FAMAS awarding when Reyes was declared as the winner for best story. FPJ appeared and revealed himself as the man behind the man. Since then, he had been using the name in his writing and directorial credit. On the other hand, Eddie Garcia was nominated in 3 different categories; Best Director for Crisis, best actor for Tubog sa Ginto and Best Supporting Actor for Pipo.

Awards

Major Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.
Best PictureBest Director
Mga Anghel na walang Langit — FPJ Productions
  • * Psycho Sex Killer — Emar Pictures
  • * Santiago! — Lea Productions
  • * Tubog sa Ginto — Lea Productions
  • * Wanted: Perfect Mother — Lea Productions
Lino Brocka — Tubog sa Ginto
  • * Armando De Guzman — Mga Anghel na Walang Langit
  • * Eddie Rodriguez — Bakit Ako Pa?
  • * Eddie Garcia— Crisis
  • * Augusto Buenaventura — Psycho Sex Killer
    • Best ActorBest Actress
    Eddie Garcia — Tubog sa Ginto
  • * Eddie Rodriguez — My Little Angel
  • * George Estregan — Psycho Sex Killer
  • * Fernando Poe Jr. — Santiago!
  • * Dante Rivero — Wanted: Perfect Mother
    		• Rita Gomez — Bakit Ako Pa?
  • * Lolita Rodriguez — Tubog sa Ginto
  • * Susan Roces — Divina Gracia
  • * Gloria Sevilla — Dodong ko
  • * Boots Anson-Roa — Wanted: Perfect Mother
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
    Amado Cortez — Bakit ako Pa?
  • * Eddie Garcia — Pipo
  • * Ruben Rustia — Psycho Sex Killer
  • * Jay Ilagan — Santiago!
  • * Mario O'Hara — Tubog sa Ginto
    		• Hilda Koronel — Santiago!
  • * Diana Dean — My Little Angel
  • * Linda Martin — Psycho Sex Killer
  • * Caridad Sanchez — Wanted Perfect Mother
    • Best Child PerformerBest Editing
    Roderick Paulate — Mga Anghel na Walang Langit
  • * Frankie Navaja Jr. — Dodong Ko
  • * Snooky Serna — My Little Angel
  • * Gina Alajar — Wanted Perfect Mother
    		• Augusto Salvador — Mga Anghel na Walang Langit
    Best in ScreenplayBest Story
    Augusto Buenaventura — Psycho Sex KillerRonwaldo Reyes — Best Cinematography
    Freddie Conde — Psycho Sex Killer' Loreto Isleta — Pipo

    Special Awardee