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22nd British Academy Film Awards

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22nd British Academy Film Awards
Date1969
Highlights
Best FilmThe Graduate
Best ActorSpencer Tracy
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best ActressKatharine Hepburn
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter
Most awardsThe Graduate (5)
Most nominationsThe Lion in Winter & Oliver! (8)

The 22nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1969, honoured the best films of 1968. The Graduate won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dustin Hoffman.[1]

Winners and nominees

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Spencer Tracy, Best Actor winner
Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress winner
Ian Holm, Best Supporting Actor winner
Dustin Hoffman, Best Newcomer winner

The GraduateMike Nichols

Mike NicholsThe Graduate

Spencer TracyGuess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton

Katharine HepburnGuess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton
Katharine HepburnThe Lion in Winter as Eleanor

Ian HolmThe Bofors Gun as Gunner Flynn

Billie WhitelawCharlie Bubbles as Lottie Bubbles
Billie WhitelawTwisted Nerve as Joan Harper

The GraduateCalder Willingham and Buck Henry

2001: A Space OdysseyGeoffrey Unsworth

Romeo and JulietDanilo Donati

The GraduateSam O'Steen

The Lion in WinterJohn Barry

2001: A Space OdysseyAnthony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernest Archer

2001: A Space Odyssey – Winston Ryder

Pas de deuxNorman McLaren

In Need of Special Care – Jonathan Stedall

Best Specialised Film

The Threat in the Water – Richard Bigham

  • Carbon – Peter De Normanville
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding – David Morphet
  • The Kurer Anchor System – Eric Horrison

Dustin HoffmanThe Graduate as Benjamin Braddock

United Nations Award

Guess Who's Coming to DinnerStanley Kramer

Statistics

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Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
8 The Lion in Winter
Oliver!
7 The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Graduate
Romeo and Juliet
5 2001: A Space Odyssey
4 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2 The Bofors Gun
Closely Watched Trains
Elvira Madigan
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In Need of Special Case
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
5 The Graduate
3 2001: A Space Odyssey
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2 The Lion in Winter

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1969". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.