22nd British Academy Film Awards

22nd British Academy Film Awards
Date	1969
Highlights
Best Film	The Graduate
Best Actor	Spencer Tracy; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter
Most awards	The Graduate (5)
Most nominations	The Lion in Winter & Oliver! (8)

The 22nd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1969, honored the best films of 1968.

Winners and nominees

Mike Nichols, Best Director winner

Spencer Tracy, Best Actor winner

Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress winner

Ian Holm, Best Supporting Actor winner

Dustin Hoffman, Best Newcomer winner

Best Film The Graduate – Mike Nichols 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel Oliver! – Carol Reed	Best Direction Mike Nichols – The Graduate Carol Reed – Oliver! Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet Lindsay Anderson – if....
Best Actor in a Leading Role *Spencer Tracy – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* as Matt Drayton** Nicol Williamson – The Bofors Gun as Gunner O'Rourke Ron Moody – Oliver! as Fagin Trevor Howard – The Charge of the Light Brigade as James Brudenell	Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor Anne Bancroft – The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson Catherine Deneuve – Belle de Jour as Séverine Serizy Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel as Rachel Cameron
Best Actor in a Supporting Role *Ian Holm – The Bofors Gun* as Gunner Flynn** Anthony Hopkins – The Lion in Winter as Richard I George Segal – No Way to Treat a Lady as Morris Brummel John McEnery – Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Billie Whitelaw – Charlie Bubbles as Lottie Bubbles Billie Whitelaw – Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper Pat Heywood – Romeo and Juliet as Nurse Simone Signoret – Games as Lisa Virginia Maskell – Interlude as Antonia
Best Screenplay The Graduate – Calder Willingham and Buck Henry Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – William Rose if.... – David Sherwin The Lion in Winter – James Goldman	Best Cinematography 2001: A Space Odyssey – Geoffrey Unsworth The Charge of the Light Brigade – David Watkin Elvira Madigan – Jörgen Persson The Lion in Winter – Douglas Slocombe
Best Costume Design Romeo and Juliet – Danilo Donati The Charge of the Light Brigade – David Walker The Lion in Winter – Margaret Furse Oliver! – Phyllis Dalton	Best Editing The Graduate – Sam O'Steen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Kevin Brownlow Oliver! – Ralph Kemplen Romeo and Juliet – Reginald Mills
Best Original Music The Lion in Winter – John Barry The Charge of the Light Brigade – John Addison Live for Life – Francis Lai Romeo and Juliet – Nino Rota	Best Production Design 2001: A Space Odyssey – Anthony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernest Archer The Charge of the Light Brigade – Ted Marshall Oliver! – John Box Romeo and Juliet – Lorenzo Mongiardino
Best Sound 2001: A Space Odyssey – Winston Ryder The Charge of the Light Brigade – Simon Kaye Closely Watched Trains – Jiri Pavlik The Lion in Winter – Chris Greenham and Simon Kaye Oliver! – John Cox and Bob Jones	Best Short Animation Pas de deux – Norman McLaren The Hand – Jiří Trnka The House That Jack Built – Ron Tunis The Question – John Halas
Best Documentary In Need of Special Care – Jonathan Stedall Inside North Vietnam – Felix Greene Music! – Michael Tuchner A Plague On Your Children – Adrian Malone	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
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles *Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate* as Benjamin Braddock** Jack Wild – Oliver! as Artful Dodger Katharine Ross – The Graduate as Elaine Robinson Pia Degermark – Elvira Madigan as Elvira Madigan	United Nations Award Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – Stanley Kramer 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick In Need of Special Care – Jonathan Stedall The Lion in Winter – Anthony Harvey

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
8	The Lion in Winter
8	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
	if....
	In Need of Special Case

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
5	The Graduate
3	2001: A Space Odyssey
3	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2	The Lion in Winter

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

22nd British Academy Film Awards

Winners and nominees

Statistics

See also