21st British Academy Film Awards

The 21st British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1968, honoured the best films of 1967.

21st British Academy Film Awards
Date	1968
Highlights
Best Film	A Man for All Seasons
Best British Film	A Man for All Seasons
Most awards	A Man for All Seasons (7)
Most nominations	A Man for All Seasons (7)

Winners and nominees

Rod Steiger, Best Foreign Actor winner

Anouk Aimée, Best Foreign Actress winner

Paul Scofield, Best British Actor winner

Edith Evans, Best British Actress winner

Faye Dunaway, Best Newcomer winner

Best Foreign Actor Rod Steiger – In the Heat of the Night as Chief Bill Gillespie Orson Welles – Chimes at Midnight as Falstaff Sidney Poitier – In the Heat of the Night as Virgil Tibbs Warren Beatty – Bonnie and Clyde as Clyde Chestnut Barrow	Best Foreign Actress Anouk Aimée – A Man and a Woman as Anne Gauthier Bibi Andersson – My Sister, My Love as Charlotte Bibi Andersson – Persona as Alma Jane Fonda – Barefoot in the Park as Corie Bratter Simone Signoret – The Deadly Affair as Elsa Fennan
Best British Actor Paul Scofield – A Man for All Seasons as Thomas More Dirk Bogarde – Accident as Stephen Dirk Bogarde – Our Mother's House as Charlie Hook James Mason – The Deadly Affair as Charles Dobbs Richard Burton – The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio	Best British Actress Edith Evans – The Whisperers as Mrs. Ross Barbara Jefford – Ulysses as Molly Bloom Elizabeth Taylor – The Taming of the Shrew as Katharina
Best British Film A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann Accident – Joseph Losey Blowup – Michelangelo Antonioni The Deadly Affair – Sidney Lumet	Best British Screenplay A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt Accident – Harold Pinter The Deadly Affair – Paul Dehn Two for the Road – Frederic Raphael
Best Animated Film Notes on a Triangle – René Jodoin Tidy Why – Bill Sewell Toys – Grant Munro	Best Documentary To Die in Madrid – Frédéric Rossif Famine – Jack Gold The Things I Cannot Change – Tanya Ballantyne
Best Short Film Indus Waters – Derek Williams Mafia No! – John Irvin Opus – Don Levy Rail – Geoffrey Jones	Best Specialised Film Energy and Matter – Robert Verrall How the Motor Car Works – Derek Armstrong Paint – Michael Heckford Revolutions for All – Jeff Inman
Best Film A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann Bonnie and Clyde – Arthur Penn In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch	Best British Art Direction A Man for All Seasons – John Box Accident – Carmen Dillon Blowup – Assheton Gorton You Only Live Twice – Ken Adam
Best British Cinematography, Black and White The Whisperers – Gerry Turpin Mademoiselle – David Watkin The Sailor from Gibraltar – Raoul Coutard Ulysses – Wolfgang Suschitzky	Best British Cinematography, Colour A Man for All Seasons – Ted Moore Blowup – Carlo Di Palma The Deadly Affair – Freddie Young Far from the Madding Crowd – Nicolas Roeg
Best British Costume Design, Black and White Mademoiselle – Jocelyn Rickards The Sailor from Gibraltar – Jocelyn Rickards	Best British Costume Design, Colour A Man for All Seasons – Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge Casino Royale – Julie Harris Far from the Madding Crowd – Alan Barrett Half a Sixpence – Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Faye Dunaway – Bonnie and Clyde as Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Faye Dunaway – Hurry Sundown as Lou McDowell Michael J. Pollard – Bonnie and Clyde as C.W. Moss Milo O'Shea – Ulysses as Leopold Bloom Peter Kastner – You're a Big Boy Now as Bernard Chanticleer	United Nations Award In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison The Gospel According to St. Matthew – Pier Paolo Pasolini

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
7	A Man for All Seasons
5	The Deadly Affair
4	Accident
	In the Heat of the Night
3	Blowup
	Bonnie and Clyde
	Ulysses
2	Far from the Madding Crowd
	Mademoiselle
	A Man and a Woman
	The Sailor from Gibraltar
	The Taming of the Shrew
	The Whisperers

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
7	A Man for All Seasons
2	In the Heat of the Night
	The Whisperers

See also

• 40th Academy Awards
• 20th Directors Guild of America Awards
• 25th Golden Globe Awards
• 20th Writers Guild of America Awards

External links

• "Film in 1968", BAFTA