Trevor Howard for Best Actor. He was nominated for a BAFTA on four other occasions. and received two other Emmy nominations, one as a lead and the other as a supporting actor. He also received three Golden Globe Award nominations. Howard was reunited with Holden for "The Lion" (1962). He was Captain Bligh to Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962). He was in a TV movie production of "Hedda Gabbler" (1962) and played the title prime minister in "The Invincible Mr Disraeli" (1963), an episode of the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" for which he won an Emmy award
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) a Best Picture Oscar and has come to be re-evaluated by some critics. In 1984 Mel Gibson played Christian opposite Anthony Hopkins as Bligh in a film (based not upon the Nordhoff-Hall novels but on an historical work by Richard Hough) called "The Bounty". This latest version, which gives a far more sympathetic view of Bligh, is considered to be the closest to historical events. The 1935 version was itself not the first film account of the mutiny. In 1933 an Australian film entitled "In the Wake of the Bounty", with the then-unknown Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian, was released,