1964, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film
Winner: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
(Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, UK / USA, 1964)

Nominees:

• ‘Becket’ (Peter Glenville, Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, Edward Anhalt, UK / USA, 1964)
• ‘The Pumpkin Eater’ (Jack Clayton, Penelope Mortimer, Harold Pinter, UK, 1964)
• ‘The Train’ (John Frankenheimer, Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, Rose Valland, France/ Italy / USA, 1964)

Best British Actor
Winner: Richard Attenborough

• As Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale in ‘Guns at Batasi’
• As Billy Savage in ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Nominees:

• Peter O'Toole as Henry II in ‘Becket’
• Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Doctor Strangelove in ‘Dr. Strangelove’
• Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in ‘The Pink Panther’
• Tom Courtenay as Private Arthur Hamp in ‘King and Country’

Best British Actress
Winner: Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert in ‘Charade’

Nominees:

• Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal in ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Edith Evans as Mrs. St. Maugham in ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Rita Tushingham as Kate Brady in ‘Girl with Green Eyes’

Best Foreign Actor
Winner: Marcello Mastroianni as Carmine Sbaratti/Renzo/Augusto Rusconti in ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’

Nominees:

• Cary Grant as Peter Joshua in ‘Charade’
• Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith in ‘Lilies of the Field’
• Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack Ripper in ‘Dr. Strangelove’

Best Foreign Actress
Winner: Anne Bancroft as Jo Armitage in ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk in ‘The Night of the Iguana’
• Kim Stanley as Myra Savage in ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’
• Shirley MacLaine as Irma la Douce in ‘Irma la Douce’
• Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May Foster in ‘What a Way to Go!’

Best Screenplay
Winner: Harold Pinter: ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Edward Anhalt: ‘Becket’
• Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern: ‘Dr. Strangelove’
• Bryan Forbes: ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Best Cinematography, Black and White
Winner: Oswald Morris: ‘The Pumpkin Eater’

Nominees:

• Douglas Slocombe: ‘Guns at Batasi’
• Denys Coop: ‘King and Country’
• Gerry Turpin: ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

Best Cinematography, Colour
Winner: Geoffrey Unsworth: ‘Becket’

Nominees:

• Freddie Young: ‘The 7th Dawn’
• Arthur Ibbetson: ‘The Chalk Garden’
• Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing but the Best’
• Jack Hildyard: ‘The Yellow Rolls-Royce’

1970, Film and Television Awards: British Academy Awards (BAFTAs)

Best Film
Winner: "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
• "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• "Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Actor
Winner: Dustin Hoffman as John in "John and Mary"
(Peter Yates, John Mortimer, Mervyn Jones, USA, 1969) and as Ratso in "Midnight Cowboy" (John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• Alan Bates as Rupert Birkin in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• Nicol Williamson as Bill Maitland in "Inadmissible Evidence" (Anthony Page, John Osborne, UK, 1968)
• Walter Matthau as The Movie Star in "The Secret Life of an American Wife" (George Axelrod, USA, 1968)

Best Actress
Winner: Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
(Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968) and as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" (Gene Kelly, Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, USA, 1969)
• Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Brangwan in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• Mia Farrow as Mary in "John and Mary" (Peter Yates, John Mortimer, Mervyn Jones, USA, 1969), as Rosemary Woodhouse in "Rosemary's Baby" (Roman Polanski, Ira Levin, USA, 1968) and as Cenci in "Secret Ceremony" (Joseph Losey, Marco Denevi, George Tabori, UK, 1968)

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Laurence Olivier as John French in "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• Jack Klugman as Ben Patimk in "Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
• Jack Nicholson as George Hanson in "Easy Rider" (Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, USA, 1969)
• Robert Vaughn as Senator Walter Chalmers in "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Celia Johnson as Miss Mackay in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
(Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• Mary Wimbush as Mary Smith in "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
• Pamela Franklin as Sandy in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (Ronald Neame, Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen, UK, 1969)
• Peggy Ashcroft as Belle in "Three into Two Won't Go" (Peter Hall, Andrea Newman, Edna O'Brien, UK, 1969)

Best Direction
Winner: John Schlesinger for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• Ken Russell for "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• Peter Yates for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
• Richard Attenborough for "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)

Best Screenplay
Winner: Waldo Salt for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• Arnold Schulman for"Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
• Larry Kramer for"Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún for"Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Cinematography
Winner: Gerry Turpin for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• William A. Fraker with "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
• Harry Stradling with "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968) and "Hello, Dolly!" (Gene Kelly, Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman, USA, 1969)
• Billy Williams with "The Magus" (Guy Green, John Fowles, UK, 1968) and "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Best Costume Design
Winner: Anthony Mendleson for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• Irene Sharaff for "Funny Girl" (William Wyler, Isobel Lennart, USA, 1968)
• Ruth Myers for "Isadora" (Karel Reisz, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Isadora Duncan, Clive Exton, Sewell Stokes, UK / France, 1968)
• Shirley Ann Russell for "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Best Film Editing
Winner: Hugh A. Robertson for "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• Frank P. Keller for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
• Kevin Connor for "Oh! What a Lovely War" (Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK,1969)
• Françoise Bonnot for "Z" (Costa-Gavras, Vasilis Vasilikos, Jorge Semprún, France / Algeria, 1969)

Best Sound Track
Winner: Don Challis and Simon Kaye for "Oh! What a Lovely War"
(Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood, Ted Allan, UK, 1969)

Nominees:

• Ted Mason and Jim Shields for "Battle of Britain" (Guy Hamilton, James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex, Derek Dempster, Derek Wood, UK, 1969)
• Edwin Scheid for "Bullitt" (Peter Yates, Alan Trustman, Harry Kleiner, Robert L. Fish, USA, 1968)
• Terry Rawlings for "Isadora" (Karel Reisz, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Isadora Duncan, Clive Exton, Sewell Stokes, UK / France, 1968) and "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Winner: Jon Voight as Joe Buck in "Midnight Cowboy"
(John Schlesinger, Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy, USA, 1969)

Nominees:

• Ali MacGraw as Brenda Patimk in "Goodbye, Columbus" (Larry Peerce, Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman, USA, 1969)
• Jennie Linden as Ursula Brangwen in "Women in Love" (Ken Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Larry Kramer, UK, 1969)
• Kim Darby as Mattie Ross in "True Grit" (Henry Hathaway, Charles Portis, Marguerite Roberts, USA, 1969)

1975, Film: Brannigan

Brannigan premièred on March 26, 1975. This British action film set in London, directed by Douglas Hickox, and starring John Wayne and Richard Attenborough, tells the story of a Chicago detective sent to Britain to organise the extradition of an American Mafia boss.

Synopsis

Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is sent to London to bring back American Mafia boss Ben Larkin (John Vernon) who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture the gangster...
  

John Wayne as Lieutenant James Brannigan

Judy Geeson as Jennifer

Main Cast

• John Wayne as Lieutenant James Brannigan
• Richard Attenborough as Commander Swann
• Mel Ferrer as Mel Fields
• Judy Geeson as Jennifer
• John Vernon as Ben Larkin
• Daniel Pilon as Gorman
• Ralph Meeker as Captain Moretti
• Lesley Anne Down as Luana
• Barry Dennen as Julian
• John Stride as Insp. Michael Traven
• James Booth as Charlie-the-Handle
• Arthur Batanides as Angell
• Pauline Delany as Mrs. Cooper
• Del Henney as Drexel
• Brian Glover as Jimmy-the-Bet
• Don Henderson as Geef

John Wayne (left) and Richard Attenborough (right)

Trailer