The 25th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1972, honoured the best films of 1971. Sunday Bloody Sunday won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film and Best Editor. The Go-Between won Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dominic Guard.
Winners and nominees BAFTA Fellowship: Freddie Young
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Schlesinger Death in Venice – Luchino Visconti The Go-Between – Joseph Losey Taking Off – Miloš Forman | valign="top" width="50%" | John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday Joseph Losey – The Go-Between Luchino Visconti – Death in Venice Miloš Forman – Taking Off Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Daniel Hirsh Albert Finney – Gumshoe as Eddie Ginley Dirk Bogarde – Death in Venice as Gustav Von Aschenbach Dustin Hoffman – Little Big Man as Jack Crabb Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels Julie Christie – The Go-Between as Marian Maudsley Lynn Carlin – Taking Off as Lynn Tyne Nanette Newman – The Raging Moon as Jill Matthews Edward Fox – The Go-Between as Hugh Ian Hendry – Get Carter as Eric Paice John Hurt – 10 Rillington Place as Timothy Evans Michael Gough – The Go-Between as Mr. Maudsley Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley Georgia Brown – The Raging Moon as Sarah Charles Georgia Engel – Taking Off as Margot Jane Asher – Deep End as Susan The Go-Between – Harold Pinter Gumshoe – Neville Smith Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt Taking Off – Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and John Klein Death in Venice – Pasqualino De Santis Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris The Go-Between – Gerry Fisher Sunday Bloody Sunday – Billy Williams Death in Venice – Piero Tosi The Go-Between – John Furniss Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo The Tales of Beatrix Potter – Christine Edzard Sunday Bloody Sunday – Richard Marden Fiddler on the Roof – Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence Performance – Antony Gibbs Taking Off – John Carter Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand Little Big Man – John P. Hammond Shaft – Isaac Hayes Trafic – Charles Dumont Death in Venice – Ferdinando Scarfiotti The Go-Between – Carmen Dillon Nicholas and Alexandra – John Box The Tales of Beatrix Potter – Christine Edzard Death in Venice – Vittorio Trentino and Giuseppe Muratori Fiddler on the Roof – Les Wiggins, David Hildyard and Gordon McCallum The Go-Between – Garth Craven, Peter Handford and Hugh Strain Sunday Bloody Sunday – David Campling, Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys The Hellstrom Chronicle – Walon Green Death of a Legend – Bill Mason Alaska: The Great Land – Derek Williams Big Horn – Bill Schmalz The Long Memory – John Philips The Savage Voyage – Eric Marquis Don't Go Down The... – Leonard Lewis A Future for the Past – Peter Bradford Dominic Guard – The Go-Between as Leo Colston Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife as Bettina Balser Gary Grimes – Summer of '42 as Herman Raucher Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Alexandra Feodorovna The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo Joe Hill – Bo Widerberg The Landlord – Hal Ashby Little Big Man – Arthur Penn
Statistics + Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 12 The Go-Between 8 Sunday Bloody Sunday 7 Death in Venice 6 Taking Off 3 Fiddler on the Roof Little Big Man Nicholas and Alexandra 2 Gumshoe The Raging Moon Summer of '42 The Tales of Beatrix Potter
+ Films that received multiple awards Awards Film 5 Sunday Bloody Sunday 4 Death in Venice The Go-Between
See also 44th Academy Awards 24th Directors Guild of America Awards 29th Golden Globe Awards 24th Writers Guild of America Awards
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