Journals

25th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1972
Highlights
Best Film	Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Actor	Peter Finch Sunday Bloody Sunday
Best Actress	Glenda Jackson Sunday Bloody Sunday
Most awards	Sunday Bloody Sunday (5)
Most nominations	The Go-Between (12)
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The 25th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1972, honoured the best films of 1971.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Sunday Bloody Sunday

• The Go-Between
• Taking Off
• Death in Venice

Best Actor

Peter Finch in Sunday Bloody Sunday

• Albert Finney in Gumshoe
• Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man
• Dirk Bogarde in Death in Venice

Best Actress

Glenda Jackson in Sunday Bloody Sunday

• Julie Christie in The Go-Between
• Jane Fonda in Klute
• Nanette Newman in The Raging Moon
• Lynn Carlin in Taking Off

Best Supporting Actor

Edward Fox in The Go-Between

• John Hurt in 10 Rillington Place
• Ian Hendry in Get Carter
• Michael Gough in The Go-Between

Best Supporting Actress

Margaret Leighton in The Go-Between

• Jane Asher in Deep End
• Georgia Brown in The Raging Moon
• Georgia Engel in Taking Off

Best Direction

John Schlesinger for Sunday Bloody Sunday

• Joseph Losey for The Go-Between
• Luchino Visconti for Death in Venice
• Miloš Forman for Taking Off

Best Screenplay

The Go-Between - Harold Pinter