23rd British Academy Film Awards (1970)

The 23rd British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1969. "Midnight Cowboy" won multiple awards including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Direction. The other films to win multiple awards were " The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Oh! What a Lovely War".
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Best Film

Midnight Cowboy
Oh! What a Lovely War
Women in Love
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Best Director

Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger
Bullitt - Peter Yates
Oh! What a Lovely War - Richard Attenborough
Women in Love - Ken Russell

Best Leading Actor

John and Mary - Dustin Hoffman
Midnight Cowboy - Dustin Hoffman
The Secret Life of an American Wife - Walter Matthau
Women in Love - Alan Bates
Inadmissible Evidence - Nicol Williamson

Best Leading Actress

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Maggie Smith
Funny Girl - Barbra Streisand
Hello, Dolly! - Barbra Streisand
Women in Love - Glenda Jackson
John and Mary - Mia Farrow
Rosemary's Baby - Mia Farrow
Secret Ceremony - Mia Farrow

Best Screenplay Original

Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt
Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman
Women in Love - Larry Kramer
Z - Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprun

Best Cinematography

Oh! What a Lovely War - Gerry Turpin
Bullitt - William A Fraker
Funny Girl - Harry Stradling Sr
Hello, Dolly! - Harry Stradling Sr
The Magus - Billy Williams
Women in Love - Billy Williams

Best Editing

Midnight Cowboy - Hugh A. Robertson
Bullitt - Frank P. Keller
Oh! What a Lovely War - Kevin Connor
Z - Francoise Bonnot

Best Costume Design

Oh! What a Lovely War - Anthony Mendleson
Funny Girl - Irene Sharaff
Isadora - Ruth Myers
Women in Love - Shirley Russell

Best Supporting Actor

Oh! What a Lovely War - Laurence Olivier
Bullitt - Robert Vaughn
Easy Rider - Jack Nicholson
Goodbye, Columbus - Jack Klugman

Best Supporting Actress

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Celia Johnson
Oh! What a Lovely War - Mary Wimbush
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Pamela Franklin
Three Into Two Won't Go - Peggy Ashcroft

Best Short Film

Picture to Post - Sarah Erulkar
Barbican - Robin Cantelon
Birthday - Franc Roddam
A Test of Violence - Stuart Cooper

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music

Z - Mikis Theodorakis
Secret Ceremony - Richard Rodney Bennett
The Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand
Women in Love - Georges Delerue

Best Art Direction

Oh! What a Lovely War - Donald M Ashton
Hello, Dolly! - John DeCuir
War and Peace - Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadi Myasnikov
Women in Love - Luciana Arrighi

Best Sound Track

Oh! What a Lovely War - Don Challis, Simon Kaye
Battle of Britain - Teddy Mason, Jim Shields
Bullitt - Ed Scheid
Isadora - Terry Rawlings
Women in Love - Terry Rawlings

Best Specialised Film

Let There Be Light - Peter De Normanville
The Behaviour Game - Ronald Spencer
Isotopes in Action - Kenneth McCready
Mullardability - Rene Basilico

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight
Goodbye, Columbus - Ali MacGraw
True Grit - Kim Darby
Women in Love - Jennie Linden

Flaherty Documentary Award

Prologue

UN Award

Oh! What a Lovely War
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Midnight Cowboy
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