24th British Academy Film Awards

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24th British Academy Film Awards
Date4 March 1971
Site Royal Albert Hall, London
Highlights
Best Film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Actor Robert Redford
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ,
Downhill Racer , and
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Best Actress Katharine Ross
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Most awardsButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (9)
Most nominationsButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid &
Ryan's Daughter (10)

The 24th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1971, honoured the best films of 1970. The awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall, London and held on 4 March 1971. [1] For the first time, the Society bestowed a Fellowship on someone who had left a permanent influence on the world of the big or small screen. The first BAFTA Fellowship Award was bestowed on Alfred Hitchcock Fellowship Award at this award event from Princess Anne.

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Winners and nominees

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Robert Redford Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Sundance Kid
Robert Redford Downhill Racer as David Chappellet
Robert Redford Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper

Katharine Ross Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Etta Place
Katharine Ross Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Lola

Colin Welland Kes as Mr. Farthing

Susannah York They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid William Goldman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Conrad Hall

Waterloo Maria De Matteis

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Burt Bacharach

Waterloo Mario Garbuglia

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Don Hall, David Dockendorf and William Edmondson

Dai Bradley Kes as Billy Casper

Henry Nine ' Til FiveBob Godfrey

Sad Song of Yellow Skin National Film Board of Canada

The Shadow of ProgressDerek Williams

  • Blake Bill Mason
  • The Gallery – Philip Mark Law
  • The Winds of Fogo – Colin Law
Best Specialised Film

The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes Bill Mason

  • Continental DriftCo Hoedeman
  • Policeman – Eric Marquis
  • A Study in Change – Michael Orrom
Fellowship Award

Alfred Hitchcock

United Nations Award

MASH Robert Altman

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
10 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ryan's Daughter
6 Kes
MASH
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3 The Railway Children
Waterloo
2 Anne of the Thousand Days
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Catch-22
Patton
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Films that received multiple awards
AwardsFilm
9 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2 Kes
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Waterloo

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