23rd British Academy Film Awards

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23rd British Academy Film Awards
Date1970
Highlights
Best Film Midnight Cowboy
Best Actor Dustin Hoffman
John and Mary and
Midnight Cowboy
Best Actress Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Most awardsMidnight Cowboy & Oh! What a Lovely War (6)
Most nominations Women in Love (11)

The 23rd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1970, honoured the best films of 1969. [1]

Contents

Winners and nominees

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Dustin Hoffman, Best Actor winner
Maggie Smith, Best Actress winner Dame Maggie Smith (retouched) (cropped).jpg
Maggie Smith, Best Actress winner
Laurence Olivier, Best Supporting Actor winner Lord Olivier 6 Allan Warren.jpg
Laurence Olivier, Best Supporting Actor winner
Jon Voight, Best Newcomer winner Jon Voight 2012.jpg
Jon Voight, Best Newcomer winner

Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger Midnight Cowboy

Dustin Hoffman John and Mary as John
Dustin Hoffman Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore Rizzo

Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie

Laurence Olivier Oh! What a Lovely War as John French

Celia Johnson The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Miss Mackay

Midnight Cowboy Waldo Salt

Oh! What a Lovely War Gerry Turpin

Oh! What a Lovely War Anthony Mendleson

Midnight Cowboy Hugh A. Robertson

Z Mikis Theodorakis

Oh! What a Lovely War Donald M. Ashton

Oh! What a Lovely War Don Challis and Simon Kaye

Prologue National Film Board of Canada

Picture to Post Sarah Erulkar

Best Specialised Film

Let There Be Light – Peter De Normanville

  • The Behaviour Game – Ronald Spencer
  • Isotopes In Action – Ken McCready
  • Mullardability – Rene Basilico

Jon Voight Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck

United Nations Award

Oh! What a Lovely War Richard Attenborough

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
11 Women in Love
10 Oh! What a Lovely War
7 Midnight Cowboy
5 Bullitt
Z
4 Hello, Dolly!
3 Funny Girl
Goodbye, Columbus
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2 Isadora
John and Mary
Secret Ceremony
Films that received multiple awards
AwardsFilm
6 Midnight Cowboy
Oh! What a Lovely War
2 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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References

  1. "Film in 1970". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 21 March 2021.