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42nd British Academy Film Awards

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Date
  
19 March 1989

Best Film
  
The Last Emperor

Site
  
Grosvenor House Hotel

Hosted by
  
David Dimbleby Anna Ford

Best Actor
  
John Cleese A Fish Called Wanda

Best Actress
  
Maggie Smith The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

The 42nd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1989, honoured the best films of 1988.

Contents

Jeremy Thomas' and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won the award for Best Film.

Best Film

The Last Emperor

  • Au Revoir, les Enfants
  • Babette's Feast
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Best Actor

    John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda

  • Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction
  • Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda
  • Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Best Actress

    Maggie Smith in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

  • Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda
  • Cher in Moonstruck
  • Stephane Audran in Babette's Feast
  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role

    Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda

  • Peter O'Toole in The Last Emperor
  • Joss Ackland in White Mischief
  • David Suchet in A World Apart
  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role

    Judi Dench in A Handful of Dust

  • Anne Archer in Fatal Attraction
  • Maria Aitken in A Fish Called Wanda
  • Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
  • Best Direction

    Au revoir, les enfants - Louis Malle

  • Babette's Feast - Gabriel Axel
  • A Fish Called Wanda - Charles Crichton
  • The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Best Original Screenplay

    A World Apart - Shawn Slovo

  • A Fish Called Wanda - John Cleese
  • Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley
  • Au revoir les enfants - Louis Malle
  • Best Screenplay, Adapted

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman

  • Babette's Feast - Gabriel Axel
  • Empire of the Sun - Tom Stoppard
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Jeffrey Price, Peter Seaman
  • Best Cinematography

    Empire of the Sun - Allen Daviau

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Dean Cundey
  • Babette's Feast - Henning Kristiansen
  • The Last Emperor - Vittorio Storaro
  • Best Costume Design

    The Last Emperor - James Acheson

  • Empire of the Sun - Bob Ringwood
  • The Dressmaker - Judy Moorcroft
  • White Mischief - Marit Allen
  • Best Editing

    Fatal Attraction - Michael Kahn, Peter Berge

  • A Fish Called Wanda - John Jympson
  • The Last Emperor - Gabriella Cristiani
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Arthur Schmidt
  • Best Original Scrore

    Empire of the Sun - John Williams

  • Bird - Lennie Niehaus
  • The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
  • Moonstruck - Dick Hyman
  • Best Makeup and Hair

    The Last Emperor - Fabrizio Sforza

  • RoboCop - Carla Palmer
  • A Handful of Dust - Sally Sutton
  • Beetlejuice - Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short
  • Best Production Design

    Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Dean Tavoularis

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Elliot Scott
  • The Last Emperor - Ferdinando Scarfiotti
  • Empire of the Sun - Norman Reynolds
  • Best Sound

    Empire of the Sun

  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Bird
  • The Last Emperor
  • Best Visual Effects

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  • Beetlejuice
  • RoboCop
  • The Last Emperor
  • Academy Fellowship

    Ingmar Bergman

    Best Film not in the English Language

    Babette's Feast

    References

    42nd British Academy Film Awards Wikipedia