22nd British Academy Film Awards

The 22nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1969, honoured the best films of 1968. The Graduate won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dustin Hoffman.

22nd British Academy Film Awards
Date	1969
Highlights
Best Film	The Graduate
Best Actor	Spencer Tracy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter
Most awards	The Graduate (5)
Most nominations	The Lion in Winter & Oliver! (8)
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Winners and nominees

Best Film The Graduate – Mike Nichols 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel Oliver! – Carol Reed	Best Direction Mike Nichols – The Graduate Carol Reed – Oliver! Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet Lindsay Anderson – if....
Best Actor in a Leading Role Spencer Tracy – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Matt Drayton Nicol Williamson – The Bofors Gun as Gunner O'Rourke Ron Moody – Oliver! as Fagin Trevor Howard – The Charge of the Light Brigade as James Brudenell	Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as Christina Drayton and The Lion in Winter as Eleanor Anne Bancroft – The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson Catherine Deneuve – Belle de Jour as Séverine Serizy Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel as Rachel Cameron
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ian Holm – The Bofors Gun as Gunner Flynn Anthony Hopkins – The Lion in Winter as Richard I George Segal – No Way to Treat a Lady as Morris Brummel John McEnery – Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Billie Whitelaw – Charlie Bubbles as Lottie Bubbles Billie Whitelaw – Twisted Nerve as Joan Harper Pat Heywood – Romeo and Juliet as Nurse Simone Signoret – Games as Lisa Virginia Maskell – Interlude as Antonia
Best Screenplay The Graduate – Calder Willingham and Buck Henry Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – William Rose if.... – David Sherwin The Lion in Winter – James Goldman	Best Cinematography 2001: A Space Odyssey – Geoffrey Unsworth The Charge of the Light Brigade – David Watkin Elvira Madigan – Jörgen Persson The Lion in Winter – Douglas Slocombe
Best Costume Design Romeo and Juliet – Danilo Donati The Charge of the Light Brigade – David Walker The Lion in Winter – Margaret Furse Oliver! – Phyllis Dalton	Best Editing The Graduate – Sam O'Steen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Kevin Brownlow Oliver! – Ralph Kemplen Romeo and Juliet – Reginald Mills
Best Original Music The Lion in Winter – John Barry The Charge of the Light Brigade – John Addison Live for Life – Francis Lai Romeo and Juliet – Nino Rota	Best Production Design 2001: A Space Odyssey – Anthony Masters, Harry Lange and Ernest Archer The Charge of the Light Brigade – Ted Marshall Oliver! – John Box Romeo and Juliet – Lorenzo Mongiardino
Best Sound 2001: A Space Odyssey – Winston Ryder The Charge of the Light Brigade – Simon Kaye Closely Watched Trains – Jiri Pavlik The Lion in Winter – Chris Greenham and Simon Kaye Oliver! – John Cox and Bob Jones	Best Short Animation Pas de deux – Norman McLaren The Hand – Jiří Trnka The House That Jack Built – Ron Tunis The Question – John Halas
Best Documentary In Need of Special Care – Jonathan Stedall Inside North Vietnam – Felix Greene Music! – Michael Tuchner A Plague On Your Children – Adrian Malone	Best Specialised Film The Threat in the Water – Richard Bigham Carbon – Peter De Normanville Genetics and Plant Breeding – David Morphet The Kurer Anchor System – Eric Horrison
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Dustin Hoffman – The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock Jack Wild – Oliver! as Artful Dodger Katharine Ross – The Graduate as Elaine Robinson Pia Degermark – Elvira Madigan as Elvira Madigan	United Nations Award Guess Who's Coming to Dinner – Stanley Kramer 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick In Need of Special Care – Jonathan Stedall The Lion in Winter – Anthony Harvey

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
8	The Lion in Winter
	Oliver!
7	The Charge of the Light Brigade
	The Graduate
	Romeo and Juliet
5	2001: A Space Odyssey
4	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2	The Bofors Gun
	Closely Watched Trains
	Elvira Madigan
	if....
	In Need of Special Case

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
5	The Graduate
3	2001: A Space Odyssey
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2	The Lion in Winter

See also

• 41st Academy Awards
• 21st Directors Guild of America Awards
• 26th Golden Globe Awards
• 21st Writers Guild of America Awards