The 20th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in June 1967, honoured the best films of 1966.

Winners and nominees

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols Doctor Zhivago – David Lean Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Karel Reisz The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Martin Ritt Goal! The World Cup – Abidine Dino and Ross Devenish Buster Keaton Rides Again – John Spotton I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat – Richard Cawston Matadar – Kevin Billington The War Game – Peter Watkins A River Must Live – Alan Pendry Sudden Summer – Richard Taylor The Tortoise and the Hare – Hugh Hudson Exploring Chemistry – Robert Parker The Radio Sky – Michael Crisfield Visual Aids – Richard Need Rod Steiger – The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman Jean-Paul Belmondo – Pierrot le Fou as Ferdinand Griffon Oskar Werner – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Fiedler Sidney Poitier – A Patch of Blue as Gordon Ralfe Jeanne Moreau – Viva Maria! as Maria I Brigitte Bardot – Viva Maria! as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley Joan Hackett – The Group as Dottie Renfrew Latham Simone Signoret – The Sleeping Car Murders as Eliane Darres Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Alec LeamasRichard Burton – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George David Warner – Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment as Morgan Delt Michael Caine – Alfie as Alfie Elkins Ralph Richardson – Doctor Zhivago as Alexander Maximovich Gromeko Ralph Richardson – Khartoum as William Ewart Gladstone Ralph Richardson – The Wrong Box as Joseph Finsbury Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha Julie Christie – Doctor Zhivago as Lara Antipova Julie Christie – Fahrenheit 451 as Linda Montag/Clarrisse Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl as Georgina Parkin Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Martin Ritt Alfie – Lewis Gilbert Georgy Girl – Silvio Narizzano Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Karel Reisz Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – David Mercer Alfie – Bill Naughton It Happened Here – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Tambi Larsen Bunny Lake Is Missing – Donald M. Ashton Georgy Girl – Tony Woollard Life at the Top – Ted Marshall The Blue Max – Wilfred Shingleton Khartoum – John Howell The Quiller Memorandum – Maurice Carter The Wrong Box – Ray Simm The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Oswald Morris Bunny Lake Is Missing – Denys Coop Cul-de-sac – Gilbert Taylor Georgy Girl – Kenneth Higgins Arabesque – Christopher Challis Alfie – Otto Heller The Blue Max – Douglas Slocombe Modesty Blaise – Jack Hildyard The Wrong Box – Julie Harris Arabesque – Christian Dior The Blue Max – John Furniss Romeo and Juliet – Nicholas Georgiadis Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Tom Priestley Alfie – Thelma Connell Arabesque – Freddie Wilson The Quiller Memorandum – Freddie Wilson Vivien Merchant – Alfie as Lily Clamacraft Alan Arkin – The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming as Yuri Rozanov Frank Finlay – Othello as Iago Jeremy Kemp – The Blue Max as Leutnant Willi Von Klugermann The War Game – Peter Watkins The Pawnbroker – Sidney Lumet The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming – Norman Jewison Vietnam – People and War – Jo Menell

Statistics + Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 6 Alfie Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 4 The Blue Max Georgy Girl 3 Arabesque Doctor Zhivago The Quiller Memorandum Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Wrong Box 2 Bunny Lake Is Missing Khartoum The Pawnbroker The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Viva Maria! The War Game

+ Films that received multiple awards Awards Film 4 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 3 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 2 Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment The War Game

See also 39th Academy Awards 19th Directors Guild of America Awards 24th Golden Globe Awards 19th Writers Guild of America Awards

References