24th British Academy Film Awards (1971)

Best Film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Kes
MASH
Ryan's Daughter

Best Director

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill
Kes - Ken Loach
MASH - Robert Altman
Ryan's Daughter - David Lean

Best Leading Actor

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Robert Redford
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Robert Redford
Downhill Racer - Robert Redford
Patton - George C Scott
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Paul Newman
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Elliott Gould
M.A.S.H. - Elliott Gould

Best Leading Actress

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Katharine Ross
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Katharine Ross
Ryan's Daughter - Sarah Miles
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Jane Fonda
Cactus Flower - Goldie Hawn
There's a Girl in My Soup - Goldie Hawn

Best Screenplay Original

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
Kes - Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E Thompson

Best Cinematography

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Conrad L. Hall
Catch-22 - David Watkin
Ryan's Daughter - Freddie Young
Waterloo - Armando Nannuzzi

Best Editing

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - John C Howard, Richard C Meyer
MASH - Danford B Greene
Ryan's Daughter - Norman Savage
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Fredric Steinkamp

Best Costume Design

Waterloo - Maria De Matteis
Anne of the Thousand Days - Margaret Furse
Cromwell - Vittorio Nino Novarese
Ryan's Daughter - Jocelyn Rickards

Best Supporting Actor

Kes - Colin Welland
The Railway Children - Bernard Cribbins
Ryan's Daughter - John Mills
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Gig Young

Best Supporting Actress

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Susannah York
Airport - Maureen Stapleton
Ryan's Daughter - Evin Crowley
Watermelon Man - Estelle Parsons

Best Short Film

The Shadow of Progress - Derek Williams
Blake - Bill Mason
The Gallery - Philip Mark Law
The Winds of Fogo - Colin Low

Fellowship Award

Alfred Hitchcock

Anthony Asquith Award for Film 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 Animated Film

Henry 9 'til 5 - Bob Godfrey
Children and Cars - John Halas
Espolio - Sidney Goldsmith
It's Tough to Be a Bird - Ward Kimball

Best Art Direction

Waterloo - Mario Garbuglia
Anne of the Thousand Days - Maurice Carter
Ryan's Daughter - Stephen B. Grimes
Scrooge - Terence Marsh

Best Sound Track

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Don Hall, David Dockendorf, Bill Edmondson
MASH - Don Hall, David Dockendorf, Bernard Freericks
Patton - Don Hall, Douglas O. Williams, Don J. Bassman
Ryan's Daughter - Winston Ryder, Gordon K. McCallum

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

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

Kes - David Bradley
The Sterile Cuckoo - Liza Minnelli
The Railway Children - Sally Thomsett
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Michael Sarrazin

Flaherty Documentary Award

Sad Song of Yellow Skin

UN Award

MASH
Catch-22
The Confession - Costa-Gavras, Robert Dorfmann
Kes