23rd British Academy Film Awards

23rd British Academy Film Awards
23rd British Academy Film Awards
Date	1970
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 awards	Midnight Cowboy & Oh! What a Lovely War (6)
Most nominations	Women in Love (11)
	← 22nd; BAFTA Awards; 24th →;

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]

Winners and nominees

Best Film Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger Oh! What a Lovely War – Richard Attenborough Women in Love – Ken Russell Z – Costa-Gavras	Best Direction John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy Ken Russell – Women in Love Peter Yates – Bullitt Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
Best Actor in a Leading Role Dustin Hoffman – John and Mary as John Dustin Hoffman – Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore Rizzo Alan Bates – Women in Love as Rupert Birkin Nicol Williamson – Inadmissible Evidence as Bill Maitland Walter Matthau – Hello, Dolly! as Horace Vandergelder Walter Matthau – The Secret Life of an American Wife as Movie Star	Best Actress in a Leading Role *Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* as Jean Brodie** Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl as Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand – Hello, Dolly! as Dolly Levi Glenda Jackson – Women in Love as Gudrun Brangwan Mia Farrow – John and Mary as Mary Mia Farrow – Rosemary's Baby as Rosemary Woodhouse Mia Farrow – Secret Ceremony as Cenci
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Laurence Olivier – Oh! What a Lovely War* as John French** Jack Klugman – Goodbye, Columbus as Ben Patimkin Jack Nicholson – Easy Rider as George Hanson Robert Vaughn – Bullitt as Senator Walter Chalmers	Best Actress in a Supporting Role *Celia Johnson – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie* as Miss Mackay** Mary Wimbush – Oh! What a Lovely War as Mary Smith Pamela Franklin – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Sandy Peggy Ashcroft – Three into Two Won't Go as Belle
Best Screenplay Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman Women in Love – Larry Kramer Z – Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún	Best Cinematography Oh! What a Lovely War – Gerry Turpin Bullitt – William A. Fraker Funny Girl – Harry Stradling Hello, Dolly! – Harry Stradling The Magus – Billy Williams Women in Love – Billy Williams
Best Costume Design Oh! What a Lovely War – Anthony Mendleson Funny Girl – Irene Sharaff Isadora – Ruth Myers Women in Love – Shirley Ann Russell	Best Editing Midnight Cowboy – Hugh A. Robertson Bullitt – Frank P. Keller Oh! What a Lovely War – Kevin Connor Z – Françoise Bonnot
Best Original Music Z – Mikis Theodorakis Secret Ceremony – Richard Rodney Bennett The Thomas Crown Affair – Michel Legrand Women in Love – Georges Delerue	Best Production Design Oh! What a Lovely War – Donald M. Ashton Hello, Dolly! – John DeCuir War and Peace – Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov Women in Love – Luciana Arrighi
Best Sound Oh! What a Lovely War – Don Challis and Simon Kaye Battle of Britain – Ted Mason and Jim Shields Bullitt – Edwin Scheid Isadora – Terry Rawlings Women in Love – Terry Rawlings	Best Documentary Prologue – National Film Board of Canada
Best Short Film Picture to Post – Sarah Erulkar Barbican – Robin Contelon Birthday – Franc Roddam A Test of Violence – Stuart Cooper	Best Specialised Film Let There Be Light – Peter De Normanville The Behaviour Game – Ronald Spencer Isotopes In Action – Ken McCready Mullardability – Rene Basilico
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck Ali MacGraw – Goodbye, Columbus as Brenda Patimkin Jennie Linden – Women in Love as Ursula Brangwen Kim Darby – True Grit as Mattie Ross	United Nations Award Oh! What a Lovely War – Richard Attenborough Ådalen 31 – Bo Widerberg Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger Z – Costa-Gavras

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
11	Women in Love
10	Oh! What a Lovely War
7	Midnight Cowboy
5	Bullitt
5	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
Awards	Film
6	Midnight Cowboy
6	Oh! What a Lovely War
2	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

References

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

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

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v t e British Academy Film Awards
Current awards	Actor Actress Animated Feature British Film Casting Cinematography Costume Design Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Director Documentary Editing Film Film Not in the English Language Makeup and Hair Music Production Design Rising Star Screenplay: Adapted Screenplay: Original Short Animation Short Film Sound Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Visual Effects
Special awards	Fellowship Award Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
Retired awards	British Actor British Actress British Screenplay Foreign Actor Foreign Actress Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Screenplay
Ceremonies	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020–21 2021 2022 2023

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