26th British Academy Film Awards

26th British Academy Film Awards
Date	1973
Highlights
Best Film	Cabaret
Best Actor	Gene Hackman The Poseidon Adventure and The French Connection
Best Actress	Liza Minnelli Cabaret
Most awards	Cabaret (7)
Most nominations	Cabaret (11)

The 26th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1973, honoured the best films of 1972.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Cabaret

• A Clockwork Orange
• The Last Picture Show
• The French Connection

Best Actor

Gene Hackman in The Poseidon Adventure and The French Connection

• Marlon Brando in The Godfather
• George C. Scott in The Hospital
• Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers
• George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants
• Robert Shaw in Young Winston

Best Actress

Liza Minnelli in Cabaret

• Stéphane Audran in The Butcher
• Anne Bancroft in Young Winston
• Dorothy Tutin in Savage Messiah

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson in The Last Picture Show

• Max Adrian in The Boy Friend
• Robert Duvall in The Godfather
• Ralph Richardson in Lady Caroline Lamb

Best Supporting Actress

Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show

• Marisa Berenson in Cabaret
• Eileen Brennan in The Last Picture Show
• Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure

Best Direction

Bob Fosse for Cabaret

• Stanley Kubrick for A Clockwork Orange
• William Friedkin for The French Connection
• Peter Bogdanovich for The Last Picture Show

Best Screenplay

The Hospital - Paddy Chayefsky The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry