38th British Academy Film Awards
38th British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 5 March 1985 |
Site | Grosvenor House Hotel |
Highlights | |
Best Film | The Killing Fields |
Best Actor |
Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields |
Best Actress |
Maggie Smith A Private Function |
Most awards | The Killing Fields (8) |
Most nominations | The Killing Fields (13) |
The 38th British Film Awards, which honoured the best films of 1984, were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 5 March 1985.[1][2]
The evening's big winner was The Killing Fields, which had 13 nominations and won eight of them.
Winners and nominees[3]
Best Film
Best Actor
Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields
Best Actress
Maggie Smith in A Private Function
Best Supporting Actor
Denholm Elliott in A Private Function
- Michael Elphick in Gorky Park
- Ian Holm in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Ralph Richardson in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Best Supporting Actress
Liz Smith in A Private Function
Best Direction
- Peter Yates for The Dresser
- Roland Joffé for The Killing Fields
- Sergio Leone for Once Upon a Time in America
Best Original Screenplay
Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen
- The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek
- Comfort and Joy - Bill Forsyth
- A Private Function - Alan Bennett
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson
Best Cinematography
The Killing Fields - Chris Menges
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Douglas Slocombe
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - John Alcott
- Once Upon a Time in America - Tonino Delli Colli
Best Editing
The Killing Fields - Jim Clark
- Under Fire - John Bloom & Mark Conte
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Michael Kahn
- Another Country - Gerry Hambling
Best Production Design
The Killing Fields - Roy Walker
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Stuart Craig
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - Allan Cameron
- The Company of Wolves - Anton Furst
Best Costume Design
Once Upon a Time in America - Gabriella Pescucci
- The Company of Wolves - Elizabeth Weller
- The Bostonians - Jenny Beavan & John Bright
- Un amour de Swann - Yvonne Sassinot De Nesles
Best Makeup Artist
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Paul Engelen, Peter Frampton, Rick Baker, Joan Hills
- The Killing Fields - Tommie Manderson
- The Dresser - Alan Boyle
- The Company of Wolves - Jane Royle & Christopher Tucker
Best Sound
The Killing Fields - Bill Rowe, Ian Fuller, Clive Winter
- Carmen - Carlos Faruolo, Alfonso Marcos, Antonio Illan
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Ivan Sharrock, Gordon K McCallum, Les Wiggins, Roy Baker
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Ben Burtt, Simon Kaye, Laurel Ladevich
Best Special Visual Effects
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Mike McAlister, Lorne Peterson
- Ghostbusters - Richard Edlund
- The Company of Wolves - Christopher Tucker, Alan Whibley
- The Killing Fields - Fred Cramer
Best Score
Once Upon a Time in America - Ennio Morricone
Best Original Song
"Ghostbusters" in Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
- "No More Lonely Nights" in Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney
- "Together in Electric Dreams" in Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey
- "I Just Called To Say I Love You" in The Woman in Red - Stevie Wonder
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Short Film
The Dress
- Killing Time
- Samson and Delilah
Most Promising Newcomer to Film
Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields
Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema
References
- ↑ Getty Images: Picture of actor Ian McKellan attending the BAFTA Awards ceremony on 5th March 1985 at the Grosvenor Hotel in London Retrieved 2013-03-06
- ↑ AvaxNews caption under picture 3: British comedian Rowan Atkinson attends the BAFTA awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, 5th March 1985. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Retrieved 2013-03-06
- ↑ BAFTA org: Film in 1985 Retrieved 2013-03-06