23rd British Academy Film Awards

23rd British Academy Film Awards
Date	1970
Highlights
Best Film	Midnight Cowboy
Best Actor	Dustin Hoffman John and Mary and Midnight Cowboy
Best Actress	Maggie Smith The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Most awards	Midnight Cowboy & Oh! What a Lovely War (6)
Most nominations	Women in Love (11)

The 23rd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1970, honoured the best films of 1969.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Dustin Hoffman, Best Actor winner

Maggie Smith, Best Actress winner

Laurence Olivier, Best Supporting Actor winner

Jon Voight, Best Newcomer winner

Best Film Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger Oh! What a Lovely War – Richard Attenborough Women in Love – Ken Russell Z – Costa-Gavras	Best Direction John Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy Ken Russell – Women in Love Peter Yates – Bullitt Richard Attenborough – Oh! What a Lovely War
Best Actor in a Leading Role Dustin Hoffman – John and Mary as John Dustin Hoffman – Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore Rizzo Alan Bates – Women in Love as Rupert Birkin Nicol Williamson – Inadmissible Evidence as Bill Maitland Walter Matthau – Hello, Dolly! as Horace Vandergelder Walter Matthau – The Secret Life of an American Wife as Movie Star	Best Actress in a Leading Role Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl as Fanny Brice Barbra Streisand – Hello, Dolly! as Dolly Levi Glenda Jackson – Women in Love as Gudrun Brangwan Mia Farrow – John and Mary as Mary Mia Farrow – Rosemary's Baby as Rosemary Woodhouse Mia Farrow – Secret Ceremony as Cenci
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Laurence Olivier – Oh! What a Lovely War as John French Jack Klugman – Goodbye, Columbus as Ben Patimkin Jack Nicholson – Easy Rider as George Hanson Robert Vaughn – Bullitt as Senator Walter Chalmers	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Celia Johnson – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Miss Mackay Mary Wimbush – Oh! What a Lovely War as Mary Smith Pamela Franklin – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Sandy Peggy Ashcroft – Three into Two Won't Go as Belle
Best Screenplay Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman Women in Love – Larry Kramer Z – Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún	Best Cinematography Oh! What a Lovely War – Gerry Turpin Bullitt – William A. Fraker Funny Girl – Harry Stradling Hello, Dolly! – Harry Stradling The Magus – Billy Williams Women in Love – Billy Williams
Best Costume Design Oh! What a Lovely War – Anthony Mendleson Funny Girl – Irene Sharaff Isadora – Ruth Myers Women in Love – Shirley Ann Russell	Best Editing Midnight Cowboy – Hugh A. Robertson Bullitt – Frank P. Keller Oh! What a Lovely War – Kevin Connor Z – Françoise Bonnot
Best Original Music Z – Mikis Theodorakis Secret Ceremony – Richard Rodney Bennett The Thomas Crown Affair – Michel Legrand Women in Love – Georges Delerue	Best Production Design Oh! What a Lovely War – Donald M. Ashton Hello, Dolly! – John DeCuir War and Peace – Mikhail Bogdanov and Gennady Myasnikov Women in Love – Luciana Arrighi
Best Sound Oh! What a Lovely War – Don Challis and Simon Kaye Battle of Britain – Ted Mason and Jim Shields Bullitt – Edwin Scheid Isadora – Terry Rawlings Women in Love – Terry Rawlings	Best Documentary Prologue – National Film Board of Canada
Best Short Film Picture to Post – Sarah Erulkar Barbican – Robin Contelon Birthday – Franc Roddam A Test of Violence – Stuart Cooper	Best Specialised Film Let There Be Light – Peter De Normanville The Behaviour Game – Ronald Spencer Isotopes In Action – Ken McCready Mullardability – Rene Basilico
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck Ali MacGraw – Goodbye, Columbus as Brenda Patimkin Jennie Linden – Women in Love as Ursula Brangwen Kim Darby – True Grit as Mattie Ross	United Nations Award Oh! What a Lovely War – Richard Attenborough Ådalen 31 – Bo Widerberg Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger Z – Costa-Gavras

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
11	Women in Love
10	Oh! What a Lovely War
7	Midnight Cowboy
5	Bullitt
	Z
4	Hello, Dolly!
3	Funny Girl
	Goodbye, Columbus
	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2	Isadora
	John and Mary
	Secret Ceremony

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
6	Midnight Cowboy
	Oh! What a Lovely War
2	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

See also

• 42nd Academy Awards
• 22nd Directors Guild of America Awards
• 27th Golden Globe Awards
• 22nd Writers Guild of America Awards

References

1. "Film in 1970". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 21 March 2021.