40th British Academy Film Awards
The 40th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1987, honoured the best films of 1986.
40th British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 22 March 1987 |
Hosted by | Ronnie Corbett Ronnie Barker |
Highlights | |
Best Film | A Room with a View |
Best Actor | Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa |
Best Actress | Maggie Smith A Room with a View |
Most awards | A Room with a View (5) |
Most nominations | A Room with a View (14) |
James Ivory's A Room with a View won the awards for Best Film, Actress, Supporting Actress, Production Design and Costume Design. Hannah and Her Sisters, directed by Woody Allen, won two awards: Best Director and Best Screenplay-Original.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
A Room with a View – Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
- Hannah and Her Sisters – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen
- The Mission – Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam and Roland Joffé
- Mona Lisa – Stephen Woolley, Patrick Cassavetti and Neil Jordan
Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George
- Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
- Paul Hogan – Crocodile Dundee as Michael Dundee
- Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters as Mickey
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ray McAnally – The Mission as Cardinal Altamirano
- Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View as Emerson
- Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa as Bror and Hans
- Simon Callow – A Room with a View as Beebe
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Maggie Smith – A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
- Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa as Simone
- Meryl Streep – Out of Africa as Karen Blixen
- Mia Farrow – Hannah and Her Sisters as Hannah
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
- Barbara Hershey – Hannah and Her Sisters as Lee
- Rosanna Arquette – After Hours as Marcy Franklin
- Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View as Mrs. Honeychurch
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
- The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
- Ran – Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni and Masato Ide
- A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup
Ran – Shohichiro Meda, Tameyuki Aimi, Chihako Naito and Noriko Takamizawa
- Aliens – Peter Robb-King
- Dreamchild – Jenny Shircore
- Sid and Nancy – Peter Frampton
Best Music
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Out of Africa – Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins
- Aliens – Don Sharpe, Roy Charman and Graham V. Hartstone
- The Mission – Ian Fuller, Bill Rowe and Clive Winter
- A Room with a View – Tony Lenny, Ray Beckett and Richard King
Best Special Visual Effects
Aliens – Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston and Suzanne M. Benson
- Dreamchild – Duncan Kenworthy, John Stephenson and Chris Carr
- Labyrinth – Roy Field, Brian Froud, George Gibbs and Tony Dunsterville
- The Mission – Peter Hutchinson
Best Documentary Film
- British Cinema: Personal View A Turnip Head's Guide to the British Cinema – Alan Parker
- Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness – John Dollar
- Forty Minutes: The Fishing Party – Paul Watson
- Omnibus: The Mission – Robin Laugh
- Viewpoint 86: Afghanistan: The Agony of a Nation – Sandy Gall
Best Foreign Language Film
Ran – Serge Silberman, Masato Hara and Akira Kurosawa
Best Short Animation Film
SuperTed – David Edward and Robin Lyons
- Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall
- Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey – David Hiller
- Paddington Goes to School – Martin Pullen
- Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends – Robert Cardona and David Mitton
- The Wind in the Willows – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall
Best Short Film
La Boule – Simon Shore
- King's Christmas – Graham Dixon
- Mohammed's Daughter – Suri Krishnamma
- Night Movie – Gur Heller
Fellowship Award
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
Film Production Executives
Statistics
Nominations | Film |
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15 | A Room with a View |
11 | The Mission |
8 | Hannah and Her Sisters |
6 | Mona Lisa |
Out of Africa | |
Ran | |
4 | Aliens |
2 | Crocodile Dundee |
Dreamchild |
Awards | Film |
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5 | A Room with a View |
3 | The Mission |
Out of Africa | |
2 | Hannah and Her Sisters |
Ran |