20th British Academy Film Awards

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

20th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1967
Highlights
Best Film	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best British Film	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Most awards	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (4)
Most nominations	Alfie, Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment, and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (6)
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Winners and nominees

Best Film 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	Best Documentary 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
Best Short Film The War Game – Peter Watkins A River Must Live – Alan Pendry Sudden Summer – Richard Taylor The Tortoise and the Hare – Hugh Hudson	Best Specialised Film Exploring Chemistry – Robert Parker The Radio Sky – Michael Crisfield Visual Aids – Richard Need
Best Foreign Actor 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	Best Foreign Actress 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
Best British Actor Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Alec Leamas Richard 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	Best British Actress 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
Best British Film 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	Best British Screenplay Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – David Mercer Alfie – Bill Naughton It Happened Here – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter
Best British Art Direction, Black and 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 – Ted Marshall	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 Cinematography, Black and White 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	Best British Cinematography, Colour Arabesque – Christopher Challis Alfie – Otto Heller The Blue Max – Douglas Slocombe Modesty Blaise – Jack Hildyard
Best British Costume Design The Wrong Box – Julie Harris Arabesque – Christian Dior The Blue Max – John Furniss Romeo and Juliet – Nicholas Georgiadis	Best Editing Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Tom Priestley Alfie – Thelma Connell Arabesque – Freddie Wilson The Quiller Memorandum – Freddie Wilson
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles 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	United Nations Award 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