# The French Connection (1971 Best Picture Winner)

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Published: 2026-01-07T05:00:00+00:00
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The thirteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, William Friedkin’s The French Connection . Directed by William Friedkin, based on the book by Robin Moore, and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey and Tony Lo Bianco, The French Connection was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Greenspun in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/08/archives/the-french-connection.html ), Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2022-08-26/from-the-archives-high-adventure-in-connection ), and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/10/30/urban-gothic ). Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at  https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at  @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidros…

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