24th British Academy Film Awards

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24th British Academy Film Awards
Date	4 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 awards	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (9)
Most nominations	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid & Ryan's Daughter (10)
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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. 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.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – George Roy Hill

Best Direction

George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Elliott Gould – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson
Elliott Gould – MASH as John Francis Xavier Mclntyre
George C. Scott – Patton as Major General George S. Patton
Paul Newman – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Butch Cassidy

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower as Toni Simmons
Goldie Hawn – There's a Girl in My Soup as Marion
Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Gloria Beatty
Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter as Rosy Ryan

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Colin Welland – Kes as Mr. Farthing

Bernard Cribbins – The Railway Children as Albert Perks
Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky
John Mills – Ryan's Daughter as Michael

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Estelle Parsons – Watermelon Man as Althea Gerber
Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero
Evin Crowley – Ryan's Daughter as Moureen Cassidy

Best Screenplay

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
Kes – Barry Hines, Ken Loach and Tony Garnett
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson

Best Cinematography

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad Hall

Best Costume Design

Waterloo – Maria De Matteis

Anne of the Thousand Days – Margaret Furse
Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese
Ryan's Daughter – Jocelyn Rickards

Best Editing

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

MASH – Danford B. Greene
Ryan's Daughter – Norman Savage
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Fredric Steinkamp

Best Original Music

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach

Alice's Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie
Figures in a Landscape – Richard Rodney Bennett
The Railway Children – Johnny Douglas

Best Production Design

Waterloo – Mario Garbuglia

Anne of the Thousand Days – Maurice Carter
Ryan's Daughter – Stephen B. Grimes
Scrooge – Terence Marsh

Best Sound

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

MASH – Don Hall, David Dockendorf and Bernard Freericks
Patton – Don Hall, Douglas Williams and Don Bassman
Ryan's Daughter – Winston Ryder and Gordon McCallum

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Dai Bradley – Kes as Billy Casper

Liza Minnelli – The Sterile Cuckoo as Mary Ann Adams
Michael Sarrazin – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Robert Syverton
Sally Thomsett – The Railway Children as Phyllis Waterbury

Best Short Animation

Henry Nine ' Til Five – Bob Godfrey

Children and Cars – John Halas
Espollo – Sidney Goldsmith
It's Tough to Be a Bird – Ward Kimball

Best Documentary

Sad Song of Yellow Skin – National Film Board of Canada

Best Short Film

The Shadow of Progress – Derek 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 Drift – Co 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
Nominations	Film
10	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
10	Ryan's Daughter
6	Kes
	MASH
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3	The Railway Children
3	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
Awards	Film
9	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2	Kes
	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
	Waterloo

References

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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 2024

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