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Bafta Best Pictures -1947 - 2021-

Director: George Cukor (USA) After years of French and British winners, Hollywood’s lavish musical took the prize. Rex Harrison’s “Why Can’t the English?” was inescapable.

Director: James Ivory (UK) The first unified winner. A sumptuous, witty Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster. It beat out Hannah and Her Sisters and The Mission . BAFTA Best Pictures -1947 - 2021-

Before 1969, BAFTA did not separate British films from foreign films. Instead, they awarded a single prize: . This early period reveals a British preference for American social realism and French artistry. Director: George Cukor (USA) After years of French

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Director: George Cukor (USA) After years of French and British winners, Hollywood’s lavish musical took the prize. Rex Harrison’s “Why Can’t the English?” was inescapable.

Director: James Ivory (UK) The first unified winner. A sumptuous, witty Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster. It beat out Hannah and Her Sisters and The Mission .

Before 1969, BAFTA did not separate British films from foreign films. Instead, they awarded a single prize: . This early period reveals a British preference for American social realism and French artistry.