British Academy Film Awards 1976

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The 29th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1975 . The film awards were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

The most successful films
(at least two nominations;
highlighted = most awards,
N = nomination; A = award)
Movie N A.
Alice no longer lives here 7th 4th
The White shark 7th 1
Dog days 6th 2
Barry Lyndon 5 2
Nashville 5 1
Flaming inferno 4th 2
The Godfather - Part II 4th 1
Rollerball 4th 1
Lenny 3 1
The day of the locust 3 1
The man who wanted to be king 2 0
Stop the deadly journey of the subway 123 2 0

Award winners and nominations

Best movie

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Director: Martin Scorsese

Barry Lyndon - Director: Stanley Kubrick
Dog days (Dog Day Afternoon) - Director: Sidney Lumet
Jaws (Jaws) - Director: Steven Spielberg

United Nations Award

Farewell to an island (Conrack) - Director: Martin Ritt

Best director

Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet - Dog Days (Dog Day Afternoon)
Martin Scorsese - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Steven Spielberg - Jaws (Jaws)

Best Actor

Al Pacino - The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather Part II) and Dog Day Afternoon (Dog Day Afternoon)

Richard Dreyfuss - The Great White Shark (Jaws)
Gene Hackman - French Connection II and The Hot Spots (Night Moves)
Dustin Hoffman - Lenny

Best main actress

Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Anne Bancroft - The nerve bundles (The Prisoner of Second Avenue)
Valerie Perrine - Lenny
Liv Ullmann - Scenes from a Marriage (Scenes from a Marriage)

Best supporting actor

Fred Astaire - The Towering Inferno (The Towering Inferno)

Martin Balsam - Stops the Death Ride of Subway 123 (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)
Burgess Meredith - The Day of the Locust (The Day of the Locust)
Jack Warden - shampoo

The best supporting actress

Diane Ladd - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Ronee Blakely - Nashville
Lelia Goldoni - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Gwen Welles - Nashville

Best Young Actor

Valerie Perrine - Lenny

Robert De Niro - The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather Part II)
Alfred Lutter - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Lily Tomlin - Nashville

Best script

Robert Getchell - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Peter Benchley , Carl Gottlieb - The great white shark (Jaws)
Frank Pierson - Dog Days (Dog Day Afternoon)
Joan Tewkesbury - Nashville

Best camera

John Alcott - Barry Lyndon

Fred J. Koenekamp - Flammendes Inferno (The Towering Inferno)
Douglas Slocombe - wanted to be The Man, the King (The Man Who Would Be King)
David Shire - Rollerball

Best cut

Dede Allen - Dog Days (Dog Day Afternoon)

Verna Fields - Great White Shark (Jaws)
Antony Gibbs - Rollerball
Barry Malkin , Richard Marks , Peter Zinner - The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather Part II)

Best film score

John Williams - Jaws (Jaws) and The Towering Inferno (The Towering Inferno)

Jerry Goldsmith - The Wind and the Lion (The Wind and the Lion)
Nino Rota - The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather Part II)
David Shire - Stopping the Death Ride of Subway 123 (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)

Best tone

Chris McLaughlin , William A. Sawyer , James E. Webb , Richard Portman - Nashville

Derek Ball , Archie Ludski, Gordon K. McCallum , Les Wiggins - Rollerball
John R. Carter , Robert L. Hoyt - Jaws (Jaws)
Richard P. Cirincione, Jack Fritzstephens, Sanford Rackow, Stephen A. Rotter , James Sabat, Dick Vorisek - Hundstage (Dog Day Afternoon)

Best costumes

Ann Roth - The Day of the Locust (The Day of the Locust)

Yvonne Blake - The Four Musketeers - Die Rache der Milady (The Four Musketeers)
Milena Canonero , Ulla-Britt Söderlund - Barry Lyndon
Edith Head - wanted to be The Man, the King (The Man Who Would Be King)

Best production design

John Box - rollerball

Ken Adam - Barry Lyndon
William J. Creber - Flammendes Inferno (The Towering Inferno)
Richard Macdonald - The Day of the Locust (The Day of the Locust)

Best short film

Sea Area Forties - Director: John Armstrong

Leaving Lily - Director: Graham Baker
The Living Woodland - Director: Ronald Eastman
Waiting On Weather - Director: Ron Granville

Best animated film

Great - Directed by Bob Godfrey

The Owl Who Married a Goose - Director: Caroline Leaf

Best documentary

In Search of the Early Americans - Directed by Alan Pendry

Seven Green Bottles - Director: Eric Marquis

Best specialized film

The Curiosity That Kills the Cat - Director: Cedric Maggs

How An Airplane Flies Part I - Directed by Derek Armstrong
The Oil In Your Engine - Director: Phillip Owtram

Prizes of honor

Academy Fellowship

Charlie Chaplin
Laurence Olivier

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