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1969 - 23rd British Film Awards

Best Film: Midnight Cowboy
Director: John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
Actor: Dustin Hoffman - John and Mary / Midnight Cowboy
Actress: Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Supporting Actor: Laurence Olivier - Oh! What a Lovely War
Supporting Actress: Celia Johnson - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Original Screenplay: Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt

Cinematography: Oh! What a Lovely War - Gerry Turpin
Editing: Midnight Cowboy - Hugh Robertson
Film Music: Z - Mikis Theodorakis
Art Direction: Oh! What a Lovely War - Donald Ashton
Costume Design: Oh! What a Lovely War - Anthony Mendleson
Sound: Oh! What a Lovely War
Newcomer: Jon Voight - Midnight Cowboy
UN Award: Oh! What a Lovely War


1968 - 22nd British Film Awards

Best Film: The Graduate
Director: Mike Nichols - The Graduate
Actor: Spencer Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner / The Lion in Winter
Supporting Actor: Ian Holm - The Bofors Gun
Supporting Actress: Billie Whitelaw - Charlie Bubbles / Twisted Nerve
Original Screenplay: The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry

Cinematography: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing: The Graduate - Sam O'Steen
Film Music: The Lion in Winter - John Barry
Art Direction: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Anthony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest Archer
Costume Design: Romeo and Juliet - Danilo Donati
Sound: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Newcomer: Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate
UN Award: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner


1967 - 21st British Film Awards

Best Film: A Man For All Seasons
British Film: A Man For All Seasons
British Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man For All Seasons
British Actress: Edith Evans - The Whisperers
Foreign Actor: Rod Steiger - In the Heat of the Night
Foreign Actress: Anouk Aimee - A Man and a Woman
Original Screenplay: A Man For All Seasons - Robert Bolt

Cinematography - Black and White: The Whisperers - Gerry Turpin
Cinematography - Color: A Man For All Seasons - Ted Moore
Art Direction: A Man For All Seasons - John Box
Costume Design - Black and White: Mademoiselle - Jocelyn Rickards
Costume Design - Color: A Man For All Seasons - Elizabeth Haffenden, Joan Bridge
Newcomer: Faye Dunaway - Bonnie and Clyde / Hurry Sundown
UN Award: In the Heat of the Night


1966 - 20th British Film Awards

Best Film: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
British Film: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
British Actor: Richard Burton - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
British Actress: Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Foreign Actor: Rod Steiger - The Pawnbroker
Foreign Actress: Jeanne Moreau - The Sleeping Car Murders
Original Screenplay: Morgan! - David Mercer

Cinematography - Black and White: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Oswald Morris
Cinematography - Color: Arabesque - Christopher Challis
Editing: Morgan! - Tom Priestley
Art Direction - Black and White: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Tambi Larsen
Art Direction - Color: The Blue Max - Wilfred Shingleton
Costume Design - Color: The Wrong Box - Julie Harris
Newcomer: Vivien Merchant - Alfie
UN Award: The War Game


1965 - 19th British Film Awards

Best Film: My Fair Lady
British Film: The Ipcress File
British Actor: Dirk Bogarde - Darling
British Actress: Julie Christie - Darling
Foreign Actor: Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou / The Killers
Foreign Actress: Patricia Neal - In Harm's Way
Original Screenplay: Darling - Frederic Raphael

Cinematography: The Hill - Oswald Morris
Cinematography - Color: The Ipcress File - Otto Heller
Art Direction - Black and White: Darling - Ray Simm
Art Direction - Color: The Ipcress File - Ken Adam
Costume Design - Color: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - Osbert Lancaster, Dinah Greet
Newcomer: Judi Dench - Four in the Morning
UN Award: Tokyo Olympiad


1964 - 18th British Film Awards

Best Film: Dr. Strangelove
British Film: Dr. Strangelove
British Actor: Richard Attenborough - Guns at Batasi / Seance on a Wet Afternoon
British Actress: Audrey Hepburn - Charade
Foreign Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Foreign Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
Original Screenplay: The Pumpkin Eater - Harold Pinter

Cinematography - Black and White: The Pumpkin Eater - Oswald Morris
Cinematography - Color: Becket - Geoffrey Unsworth
Art Direction - Black and White: Dr. Strangelove - Ken Adam
Art Direction - Color: Becket - John Bryan
Costume Design - Black and White: The Pumpkin Eater - Motley
Costume Design - Color: Becket - Margaret Furse
Newcomer: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
UN Award: Dr. Strangelove


1963 - 17th British Film Awards

Best Film: Tom Jones
British Film: Tom Jones
British Actor: Dirk Bogarde - The Servant
British Actress: Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life
Foreign Actor: Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style
Foreign Actress: Patricia Neal - Hud
Original Screenplay: Tom Jones - John Osborne

Cinematography - Black and White: The Servant - Douglas Slocombe
Cinematography - Color: From Russia with Love - Ted Moore
Newcomer: James Fox - The Servant
UN Award: The Inheritance


1962 - 16th British Film Awards

Best Film: Lawrence of Arabia
British Film: Lawrence of Arabia
British Actor: Peter O'Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
British Actress: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
Foreign Actor: Burt Lancaster - Birdman of Alcatraz
Foreign Actress: Anne Bancroft - The Miracle Worker
Original Screenplay: Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt

Newcomer: Tom Courtenay - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
UN Award: Reach for Glory


1961 - 15th British Film Awards

Best Film (TIE): The Hustler & Ballad of a Soldier
British Film: A Taste of Honey
British Actor: Peter Finch - No Love for Johnnie
British Actress: Dora Bryan - A Taste of Honey
Foreign Actor: Paul Newman - The Hustler
Foreign Actress: Sophia Loren - Two Women
Original Screenplay (TIE): A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson & The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest

Newcomer: Rita Tushingham - A Taste of Honey
UN Award: Let My People Go


1960 - 14th British Film Awards

Best Film: The Apartment
British Film: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
British Actor: Peter Finch - The Trials of Oscar Wilde
British Actress: Rachel Roberts - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Foreign Actor: Jack Lemmon - The Apartment
Foreign Actress: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
Original Screenplay: The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes

Newcomer: Albert Finney - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
UN Award: Hiroshima Mon Amour



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