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22nd British Academy Film Awards

1969 film awards ceremony

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ2815002 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 22nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1969, honoured the best films of 1968. The Graduate won Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editor, plus Most Promising Newcomer for Dustin Hoffman.

Editorial summary

“22nd British Academy Film Awards” enters the record as 1969 film awards ceremony. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 22nd, British and Academy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 22nd, British and Academy.
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“22nd British Academy Film Awards” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, 22nd, British and Academy provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2815002. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “22nd British Academy Film Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.