| Main Performers | David Niven,
Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Lord Louis Mountbatten),
HRH Princess Anne - prize-givers |
| Orchestra or Band | Chamise,
Raymond James Disco |
| Set List | Best Actor - Peter Barkworth (Crown Matrimonial),
Best Actress - Lee Rimick (Jennie),
Best Design - The Stanley Baxter Big Picture Show (Bill McPherson),
Desmond Davis Award - Denis Mitchell,
Best Drama Series or Serial - South Riding (James Ormond),
Best Factual Programme - Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton (Frank Cvitanovitch),
Best Factual Series - Horizon (Peter Goodchild, Bruce Norman),
Best Light Entertainment Performance - Stanley Baxter (The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show),
Best Light Entertainment Programme - The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show (David Bell),
Rediffusion Star Awards: Flame of Knowledge - What Does The Money Matter? (Roger Tonge),
Best Televsion Actor Award - John Hurt (The Naked Civil Servant)
Best Film Actor - Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail/Chinatown), |
| Royal Presence | HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal |
| Performance Notes | The event was broadcast on ITV from 2030-22:10.
Associated Press Archive holds colour British Movietone footage of the event (Story No.BM76-47A).
This was the first year of the of the Society of Film and Television Arts rebranded as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Guests at the event included Ronnie Corbett, Diana Ladd, Lee Remick, John Hurt, Dicky Henderson, Ronnie Barker, Donald Sutherland, and David Suskind.
Princess Anne was received by Sir Richard Attenborough, BAFTA Vice-President and Mr Sydney Samuelson, BAFTA Chairman. Miss Victoria Legge Bourke was in attendance. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1976/38),
Photographs (RAHE/3/1976/1) |