25th British Academy Film Awards

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25th British Academy Film Awards
Date1972
Highlights
Best Film Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Actor Peter Finch
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Actress Glenda Jackson
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Most awardsSunday Bloody Sunday (5)
Most nominations The Go-Between (12)

The 25th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1972, honoured the best films of 1971. Sunday Bloody Sunday won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film and Best Editor. The Go-Between won Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dominic Guard. [1]

Contents

Winners and nominees

BAFTA Fellowship: Freddie Young

Sunday Bloody Sunday John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Finch Sunday Bloody Sunday as Daniel Hirsh

Glenda Jackson Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville

Edward Fox The Go-Between as Hugh

Margaret Leighton The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley

The Go-Between Harold Pinter

Death in Venice Pasqualino De Santis

Death in Venice Piero Tosi

Sunday Bloody Sunday – Richard Marden

Summer of '42 Michel Legrand

Death in Venice Ferdinando Scarfiotti

Death in Venice – Vittorio Trentino and Giuseppe Muratori

The Hellstrom Chronicle Walon Green

Alaska: The Great LandDerek Williams

  • Big Horn – Bill Schmalz
  • The Long Memory – John Philips
Best Specialised Film

The Savage Voyage – Eric Marquis

  • Don't Go Down The...Leonard Lewis
  • A Future for the Past – Peter Bradford

Dominic Guard The Go-Between as Leo Colston

United Nations Award

The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
12 The Go-Between
8 Sunday Bloody Sunday
7 Death in Venice
6 Taking Off
3 Fiddler on the Roof
Little Big Man
Nicholas and Alexandra
2 Gumshoe
The Raging Moon
Summer of '42
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
Films that received multiple awards
AwardsFilm
5 Sunday Bloody Sunday
4 Death in Venice
The Go-Between

See also

References

  1. "BAFTA | Film in 1972". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.