24th British Academy Film Awards

The 24th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1971, honoured the best films of 1970. The awards were held at the Royal Albert Hall, London and held on 4 March 1971. For the first time, the Society bestowed a Fellowship on someone who had left a permanent influence on the world of the big or small screen. The first BAFTA Fellowship Award was bestowed on Alfred Hitchcock Fellowship Award at this award event from Princess Anne.

Winners and nominees

Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – George Roy Hill Kes – Ken Loach MASH – Robert Altman Ryan's Daughter – David Lean	Template:Award category George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid David Lean – Ryan's Daughter Ken Loach – Kes Robert Altman – MASH
Template:Award category Robert Redford – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Sundance Kid Robert Redford – Downhill Racer as David Chappellet Robert Redford – Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper Elliott Gould – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Ted Henderson Elliott Gould – MASH as John Francis Xavier Mclntyre George C. Scott – Patton as Major General George S. Patton Paul Newman – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Butch Cassidy	Template:Award category Katharine Ross – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as Etta Place Katharine Ross – Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here as Lola Goldie Hawn – Cactus Flower as Toni Simmons Goldie Hawn – There's a Girl in My Soup as Marion Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Gloria Beatty Sarah Miles – Ryan's Daughter as Rosy Ryan
Template:Award category Colin Welland – Kes as Mr. Farthing Bernard Cribbins – The Railway Children as Albert Perks Gig Young – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky John Mills – Ryan's Daughter as Michael	Template:Award category Susannah York – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc Estelle Parsons – Watermelon Man as Althea Gerber Maureen Stapleton – Airport as Inez Guerrero Evin Crowley – Ryan's Daughter as Moureen Cassidy
Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker Kes – Barry Hines, Ken Loach and Tony Garnett They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson	Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad Hall Catch-22 – David Watkin Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young Waterloo – Armando Nannuzzi
Template:Award category Waterloo – Maria De Matteis Anne of the Thousand Days – Margaret Furse Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese Ryan's Daughter – Jocelyn Rickards	Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer MASH – Danford B. Greene Ryan's Daughter – Norman Savage They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – Fredric Steinkamp
Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Burt Bacharach Alice's Restaurant – Arlo Guthrie Figures in a Landscape – Richard Rodney Bennett The Railway Children – Johnny Douglas	Template:Award category Waterloo – Mario Garbuglia Anne of the Thousand Days – Maurice Carter Ryan's Daughter – Stephen B. Grimes Scrooge – Terence Marsh
Template:Award category Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Don Hall, David Dockendorf and William Edmondson MASH – Don Hall, David Dockendorf and Bernard Freericks Patton – Don Hall, Douglas Williams and Don Bassman Ryan's Daughter – Winston Ryder and Gordon McCallum	Template:Award category Dai Bradley – Kes as Billy Casper Liza Minnelli – The Sterile Cuckoo as Mary Ann Adams Michael Sarrazin – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Robert Syverton Sally Thomsett – The Railway Children as Phyllis Waterbury
Template:Award category Henry Nine ' Til Five – Bob Godfrey Children and Cars – John Halas Espollo – Sidney Goldsmith It's Tough to Be a Bird – Ward Kimball	Template:Award category Sad Song of Yellow Skin – National Film Board of Canada
Template:Award category The Shadow of Progress – Derek Williams Blake – Bill Mason The Gallery – Philip Mark Law The Winds of Fogo – Colin Law	Template:Award category The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes – Bill Mason Continental Drift – Co Hoedeman Policeman – Eric Marquis A Study in Change – Michael Orrom
Template:Award category Alfred Hitchcock	Template:Award category MASH – Robert Altman Catch-22 – Mike Nichols The Confession – Costa-Gavras Kes – Ken Loach

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations

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10	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
	Ryan's Daughter
6	Kes
	MASH
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3	The Railway Children
	Waterloo
2	Anne of the Thousand Days
	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
	Catch-22
	Patton
	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Films that received multiple awards

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9	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2	Kes
	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
	Waterloo

See also

• 43rd Academy Awards
• 23rd Directors Guild of America Awards
• 28th Golden Globe Awards
• 23rd Writers Guild of America Awards