Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols

• Doctor Zhivago – David Lean
• Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Karel Reisz
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Martin Ritt

Goal! The World Cup – Abidine Dino and Ross Devenish

• Buster Keaton Rides Again – John Spotton
• I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat – Richard Cawston
• Matadar – Kevin Billington

The War Game – Peter Watkins

• A River Must Live – Alan Pendry
• Sudden Summer – Richard Taylor
• The Tortoise and the Hare – Hugh Hudson

Exploring Chemistry – Robert Parker

• The Radio Sky – Michael Crisfield
• Visual Aids – Richard Need

Rod Steiger – The Pawnbroker as Sol Nazerman

• Jean-Paul Belmondo – Pierrot le Fou as Ferdinand Griffon
• Oskar Werner – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Fiedler
• Sidney Poitier – A Patch of Blue as Gordon Ralfe

Jeanne Moreau – Viva Maria! as Maria I

• Brigitte Bardot – Viva Maria! as Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley
• Joan Hackett – The Group as Dottie Renfrew Latham
• Simone Signoret – The Sleeping Car Murders as Eliane Darres

Richard Burton – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Alec Leamas
Richard Burton – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George

• David Warner – Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment as Morgan Delt
• Michael Caine – Alfie as Alfie Elkins
• Ralph Richardson – Doctor Zhivago as Alexander Maximovich Gromeko
• Ralph Richardson – Khartoum as William Ewart Gladstone
• Ralph Richardson – The Wrong Box as Joseph Finsbury

Elizabeth Taylor – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha

• Julie Christie – Doctor Zhivago as Lara Antipova
• Julie Christie – Fahrenheit 451 as Linda Montag/Clarrisse
• Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl as Georgina Parkin
• Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Martin Ritt

• Alfie – Lewis Gilbert
• Georgy Girl – Silvio Narizzano
• Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Karel Reisz

Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – David Mercer

• Alfie – Bill Naughton
• It Happened Here – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo
• The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Tambi Larsen

• Bunny Lake Is Missing – Donald M. Ashton
• Georgy Girl – Tony Woollard
• Life at the Top – Ted Marshall

The Blue Max – Wilfred Shingleton

• Khartoum – John Howell
• The Quiller Memorandum – Maurice Carter
• The Wrong Box – Ray Simm

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold – Oswald Morris

• Bunny Lake Is Missing – Denys Coop
• Cul-de-sac – Gilbert Taylor
• Georgy Girl – Kenneth Higgins

Arabesque – Christopher Challis

• Alfie – Otto Heller
• The Blue Max – Douglas Slocombe
• Modesty Blaise – Jack Hildyard

The Wrong Box – Julie Harris

• Arabesque – Christian Dior
• The Blue Max – John Furniss
• Romeo and Juliet – Nicholas Georgiadis

Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment – Tom Priestley

• Alfie – Thelma Connell
• Arabesque – Freddie Wilson
• The Quiller Memorandum – Freddie Wilson

Vivien Merchant – Alfie as Lily Clamacraft

• Alan Arkin – The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming as Yuri Rozanov
• Frank Finlay – Othello as Iago
• Jeremy Kemp – The Blue Max as Leutnant Willi Von Klugermann

The War Game – Peter Watkins

• The Pawnbroker – Sidney Lumet
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – Norman Jewison
• Vietnam – People and War – Jo Menell