# 25th British Academy Film Awards

The 25th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1972, honoured the best films of 1971. Sunday Bloody Sunday won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film and Best Editor. The Go-Between won Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dominic Guard.

## Winners and nominees

BAFTA Fellowship: Freddie Young
| Best Film Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Schlesinger Death in Venice – Luchino Visconti The Go-Between – Joseph Losey Taking Off – Miloš Forman | Best Direction John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday Joseph Losey – The Go-Between Luchino Visconti – Death in Venice Miloš Forman – Taking Off |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Peter Finch – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Daniel Hirsh Albert Finney – Gumshoe as Eddie Ginley Dirk Bogarde – Death in Venice as Gustav Von Aschenbach Dustin Hoffman – Little Big Man as Jack Crabb | Best Actress in a Leading Role Glenda Jackson – Sunday Bloody Sunday as Alex Greville Jane Fonda – Klute as Bree Daniels Julie Christie – The Go-Between as Marian Maudsley Lynn Carlin – Taking Off as Lynn Tyne Nanette Newman – The Raging Moon as Jill Matthews |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role Edward Fox – The Go-Between as Hugh Ian Hendry – Get Carter as Eric Paice John Hurt – 10 Rillington Place as Timothy Evans Michael Gough – The Go-Between as Mr. Maudsley | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Margaret Leighton – The Go-Between as Mrs. Maudsley Georgia Brown – The Raging Moon as Sarah Charles Georgia Engel – Taking Off as Margot Jane Asher – Deep End as Susan |
| Best Screenplay The Go-Between – Harold Pinter Gumshoe – Neville Smith Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt Taking Off – Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and John Klein | Best Cinematography Death in Venice – Pasqualino De Santis Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris The Go-Between – Gerry Fisher Sunday Bloody Sunday – Billy Williams |
| Best Costume Design Death in Venice – Piero Tosi The Go-Between – John Furniss Nicholas and Alexandra – Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo The Tales of Beatrix Potter – Christine Edzard | Best Editing Sunday Bloody Sunday – Richard Marden Fiddler on the Roof – Antony Gibbs and Robert Lawrence Performance – Antony Gibbs Taking Off – John Carter |
| Best Original Music Summer of '42 – Michel Legrand Little Big Man – John P. Hammond Shaft – Isaac Hayes Trafic – Charles Dumont | Best Production Design Death in Venice – Ferdinando Scarfiotti The Go-Between – Carmen Dillon Nicholas and Alexandra – John Box The Tales of Beatrix Potter – Christine Edzard |
| Best Sound Death in Venice – Vittorio Trentino and Giuseppe Muratori Fiddler on the Roof – Les Wiggins, David Hildyard and Gordon McCallum The Go-Between – Garth Craven, Peter Handford and Hugh Strain Sunday Bloody Sunday – David Campling, Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys | Best Documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle – Walon Green Death of a Legend – Bill Mason |
| Best Short Film Alaska: The Great Land – Derek Williams Big Horn – Bill Schmalz The Long Memory – John Philips | Best Specialised Film The Savage Voyage – Eric Marquis Don't Go Down The... – Leonard Lewis A Future for the Past – Peter Bradford |
| Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Dominic Guard – The Go-Between as Leo Colston Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife as Bettina Balser Gary Grimes – Summer of '42 as Herman Raucher Janet Suzman – Nicholas and Alexandra as Alexandra Feodorovna | United Nations Award The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo Joe Hill – Bo Widerberg The Landlord – Hal Ashby Little Big Man – Arthur Penn |

## Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 12 | The Go-Between |
| 8 | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| 7 | Death in Venice |
| 6 | Taking Off |
| 3 | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 3 | Little Big Man |
| 3 | Nicholas and Alexandra |
| 2 | Gumshoe |
| 2 | The Raging Moon |
| 2 | Summer of '42 |
| 2 | The Tales of Beatrix Potter |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 5 | Sunday Bloody Sunday |
| 4 | Death in Venice |
| 4 | The Go-Between |