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BAFTA Awards: 1972

BAFTA Film Award

Best Film


Winner:
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Other Nominees:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) Taking Off (1971) The Go-Between (1970)

Best Actor


Winner:
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Peter Finch (I)
Other Nominees:
	Gumshoe (1971) - Albert Finney Little Big Man (1970) - Dustin Hoffman Morte a Venezia (1971) - Dirk Bogarde

Best Actress


Winner:
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Glenda Jackson
Other Nominees:
	Klute (1971) - Jane Fonda Taking Off (1971) - Lynn Carlin The Go-Between (1970) - Julie Christie (I) The Raging Moon (1971) - Nanette Newman

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	The Go-Between (1970) - Edward Fox (I)
Other Nominees:
	10 Rillington Place (1971) - John Hurt Get Carter (1971) - Ian Hendry (I) The Go-Between (1970) - Michael Gough (I)

Best Supporting Actress


Winner:
	The Go-Between (1970) - Margaret Leighton
Other Nominees:
	Deep End (1971) - Jane Asher Taking Off (1971) - Georgia Engel The Raging Moon (1971) - Georgia Brown (I)

Best Direction


Winner:
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - John Schlesinger (I)
Other Nominees:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) - Luchino Visconti Taking Off (1971) - Milos Forman The Go-Between (1970) - Joseph Losey

Best Screenplay


Winner:
	The Go-Between (1970) - Harold Pinter
Other Nominees:
	Gumshoe (1971) - Neville Smith (I) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Penelope Gilliatt Taking Off (1971) - Milos Forman; John Guare; Jean-Claude Carri�re; Jon Klein (IV)

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) - Pasqualino De Santis
Other Nominees:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Oswald Morris Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Billy Williams (III) The Go-Between (1970) - Gerry Fisher (I)

Best Art Direction


Winner:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) - Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Other Nominees:
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - John Box Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971) - Christine Edzard The Go-Between (1970) - Carmen Dillon

Best Costume Design


Winner:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) - Piero Tosi
Other Nominees:
	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Yvonne Blake (I); Antonio Castillo (I) Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971) - Christine Edzard The Go-Between (1970) - John Furniss

Best Sound Track


Winner:
	Morte a Venezia (1971) - Vittorio Trentino; Giuseppe Muratori
Other Nominees:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Les Wiggins; David Hildyard; Gordon K. McCallum Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - David Campling; Simon Kaye; Gerry Humphreys (I) The Go-Between (1970) - Garth Craven; Peter Handford; Hugh Strain

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) - Richard Marden
Other Nominees:
	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) - Antony Gibbs; Robert Lawrence (I) Performance (1970) - Antony Gibbs Taking Off (1971) - John Carter (I)

Best Short Film


Winner:
	Alaska: The Great Land (1971) - Derek Williams (I)
Other Nominees:
	Big Horn (1970) - Bill Schmalz The Long Memory (1971) - John Phillips (VIII)

Best Animated Film


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Best Specialised Film


Winner:
	The Savage Voyage (1971) - Eric Marquis (I)
Other Nominees:
	A Future for the Past (1971) - Peter Bradford (I) Don't Go Down the... (1971) - Leonard Lewis

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles


Winner:
	The Go-Between (1970) - Dominic Guard
Other Nominees:
	Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) - Carrie Snodgress Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) - Janet Suzman Summer of '42 (1971) - Gary Grimes (I)

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music


Winner:
	Summer of '42 (1971) - Michel Legrand (I)
Other Nominees:
	Little Big Man (1970) - John Hammond (I) Shaft (1971) - Isaac Hayes Trafic (1971) - Charles Dumont

Flaherty Documentary Award


Winner:
	The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) - Walon Green
Other Nominees:
	Death of a Legend (1971) - Bill Mason (II)

UN Award


Winner:
	La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Other Nominees:
	Joe Hill (1971) Little Big Man (1970) The Landlord (1970)

Academy Fellowship


Awarded to:
	Freddie Young

BAFTA TV Award

Best Actor


Winner:
	"Play for Today" (1970) {Traitor (#2.1)} - John Le Mesurier
Other Nominees:
	"Casanova" (1971) - Frank Finlay (I) "Man at the Top" (1970) - Kenneth Haigh - Also for "The Search for the Nile" (1971). "Public Eye" (1965) - Alfred Burke

Best Actress


Winner:
	"Play for Today" (1970) {Edna, the Inebriate Woman (#2.2)} - Patricia Hayes (I)
Other Nominees:
	"BBC Play of the Month" (1965) - Gemma Jones (I) - For episode "The Cherry Orchard". - Also for "Play for Today" (1970), episode "The Man in the Sidecar". "Elizabeth R" (1971) - Glenda Jackson Cider with Rosie (1971) (TV) - Rosemary Leach - Also for "ITV Playhouse" (1967), episode "The Mosedale Horseshoe".

Best Specialised Production


Winner:
	"Omnibus" (1967) - Norman Swallow
Other Nominees:
	"The Search for the Nile" (1971) - Christopher Ralling

Best Factual Production


Winner:
	"World in Action" (1963) - Jenny Wallington; "production team"
Other Nominees:
	"Horizon" (1964) - Peter Goodchild; "production team" "Man Alive" (1965) - Desmond Wilcox (I); Bill Morton (I); "production team"

Best Light Entertainment Production


Winner:
	"The Benny Hill Show" (1969) - John Robins; David Bell (II)
Other Nominees:
	"The Comedians" (1971) - John Hamp "The Goodies" (1970) - John Howard Davies "The Two Ronnies" (1971) - Terry Hughes (I)

Best Script


Winner:
	"The Benny Hill Show" (1969) - Benny Hill
Other Nominees:
	"BBC Play of the Month" (1965) - Hugh Whitemore - For episode "Act of Betrayal". - Also for Cider with Rosie (1971) (TV). "Casanova" (1971) - Dennis Potter (I) - Also for Paper Roses (1971) (TV) and "Play for Today" (1970), episode "Traitor". "Play for Today" (1970) {Edna, the Inebriate Woman (#2.2)} - Jeremy Sandford

Best Light Entertainment Performance


Winner:
	"The Two Ronnies" (1971) - Ronnie Barker; Ronnie Corbett
Other Nominees:
	"The Benny Hill Show" (1969) - Benny Hill "The Dick Emery Show" (1963) - Dick Emery

Best Drama Production


Winners:
	"Play for Today" (1970) {Edna, the Inebriate Woman (#2.2)} - Ted Kotcheff - (Best Single Drama). "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971) - John Hawkesworth - (Best Drama Series).
Other Nominees:
	"Eyeless in Gaza" (1971) - James Cellan Jones Cider with Rosie (1971) (TV) - Claude Whatham The Snow Goose (1971) (TV) - Patrick Garland (I)

'Harlequin'


Winner:
	"Follyfoot" (1971) - "production team"

Best Design


Winner:
	"The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" (1971) - "design team"
Other Nominees:
	"BBC Play of the Month" (1965) - Fanny Taylor (I) - For episode "Tartuffe". "The Onedin Line" (1971) - Oliver Bayldon Cider with Rosie (1971) (TV) - Eileen Diss - Also for Die Fledermaus (????) (TV).

Best Foreign TV Programme


Winner:
	Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) - Marcel Oph�ls

Special Award


Awarded to:
	"The Morecambe & Wise Show" (1968) - Eric Morecambe; Ernie Wise; Eddie Braben