20th British Academy Film Awards (1967)

The 20th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1966. " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" won multiple awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress. The other films to win multiple awards were "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" and "Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment".
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Best Film

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols
Doctor Zhivago - David Lean
Morgan! - Karel Reisz
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Martin Ritt

Best British Film

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Martin Ritt
Alfie - Lewis Gilbert
Georgy Girl - Silvio Narizzano
Morgan! - Karel Reisz

Best Short Film

The War Game - Peter Watkins
The River Must Live - Alan Pendry
Sudden Summer - Richard Taylor
The Tortoise and the Hare - Hugh Hudson

Best Specialised Film

Exploring Chemistry - The Nuffield Approach to the Teaching of Chemistry - Robert Parker
The Radio Sky - Michael Crosfield
Visual Aids - Richard Need

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Alfie - Vivien Merchant
The Blue Max - Jeremy Kemp
Othello - Frank Finlay
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming - Alan Arkin

Flaherty Documentary Award

Goal! The World Cup - Abidin Dino, Ross Devenish
Buster Keaton Rides Again - John Spotton
I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat - Richard Cawston
Matador - Kevin Billington

UN Award

The War Game - Peter Watkins
The Pawnbroker - Sidney Lumet
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming - Norman Jewison
Panorama - Jo Menell

Best British Actor

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Richard Burton
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Richard Burton
Alfie - Michael Caine
Morgan! - David Warner
Doctor Zhivago - Ralph Richardson
Khartoum - Ralph Richardson
The Wrong Box - Ralph Richardson

Best Foreign Actor

The Pawnbroker - Rod Steiger
A Patch of Blue - Sidney Poitier
Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Paul Belmondo
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Oskar Werner

Best British Actress

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Elizabeth Taylor
Fahrenheit 451 - Julie Christie
Georgy Girl - Lynn Redgrave
Morgan! - Vanessa Redgrave
Doctor Zhivago - Julie Christie

Best Foreign Actress

Viva Maria! - Jeanne Moreau
The Group - Joan Hackett
Viva Maria! - Brigitte Bardot

Best British Screenplay

Morgan! - David Mercer
Alfie - Bill Naughton
It Happened Here - Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
The Quiller Memorandum - Harold Pinter

Best British Cinematography (Colour)

Arabesque - Christopher Challis
Alfie - Otto Heller
The Blue Max - Douglas Slocombe
Modesty Blaise - Jack Hildyard

Best British Cinematography (Black & White)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Oswald Morris
Bunny Lake Is Missing - Denys N. Coop
Cul-de-sac - Gilbert Taylor
Georgy Girl - Kenneth Higgins

Best British Art Direction (Colour)

The Blue Max - Wilfred Shingleton
Khartoum - John Howell
The Quiller Memorandum - Maurice Carter
The Wrong Box - Ray Simm

Best British Art Direction (Black & White)

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 - Edward Marshall

Best British Costume (Colour)

The Wrong Box - Julie Harris
Arabesque - Christian Dior
The Blue Max - John Furniss
Romeo and Juliet - Nicholas Georgidis

Best British Film Editing

Morgan! - Tom Priestley
Alfie - Thelma Connell
Arabesque - Frederick Wilson
The Quiller Memorandum - Frederick Wilson
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