# 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.

## 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 |
| 6 | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment |
| 6 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold |
| 4 | The Blue Max |
| 4 | Georgy Girl |
| 3 | Arabesque |
| 3 | Doctor Zhivago |
| 3 | The Quiller Memorandum |
| 3 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 3 | The Wrong Box |
| 2 | Bunny Lake Is Missing |
| 2 | Khartoum |
| 2 | The Pawnbroker |
| 2 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
| 2 | Viva Maria! |
| 2 | 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 |
| 2 | The War Game |