24th British Academy Film Awards

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – George Roy Hill

• Kes – Ken Loach
• MASH – Robert Altman
• Ryan's Daughter – David Lean

George Roy Hill – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• David Lean – Ryan's Daughter
• Ken Loach – Kes
• Robert Altman – MASH

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

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

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

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

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

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad Hall

• Catch-22 – David Watkin
• Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young
• Waterloo – Armando Nannuzzi

Waterloo – Maria De Matteis

• Anne of the Thousand Days – Margaret Furse
• Cromwell – Vittorio Nino Novarese
• Ryan's Daughter – Jocelyn Rickards

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

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

Waterloo – Mario Garbuglia

• Anne of the Thousand Days – Maurice Carter
• Ryan's Daughter – Stephen B. Grimes
• Scrooge – Terence Marsh

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

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

Henry Nine ' Til Five – Bob Godfrey

• Children and Cars – John Halas
• Espollo – Sidney Goldsmith
• It's Tough to Be a Bird – Ward Kimball

The Shadow of Progress – Derek Williams

• Blake – Bill Mason
• The Gallery – Philip Mark Law
• The Winds of Fogo – Colin Law

The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes – Bill Mason

• Continental Drift – Co Hoedeman
• Policeman – Eric Marquis
• A Study in Change – Michael Orrom

MASH – Robert Altman

• Catch-22 – Mike Nichols
• The Confession – Costa-Gavras
• Kes – Ken Loach