34th British Academy Film Awards (1981)
Highlights of 34th British Academy Film Awards ceremony
The 34th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1980.
The Elephant Man won the Best Film award.
- WINNER
Best Film
The Elephant Man
Being There
Kagemusha
Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director
Kagemusha
- Akira Kurosawa
The Elephant Man
- David Lynch
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Robert Benton
Fame
- Alan Parker
Best Leading Actor
The Elephant Man
- John Hurt
All That Jazz
- Roy Scheider
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Dustin Hoffman
Being There
- Peter Sellers
Best Leading Actress
My Brilliant Career
- Judy Davis
Being There
- Shirley MacLaine
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Meryl Streep
The Rose
- Bette Midler
Best Screenplay Original
Being There
- Jerzy Kosinski
Best Production Design
The Elephant Man
- Stuart Craig
All That Jazz
- Philip Rosenberg
Flash Gordon
- Danilo Donati
Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Norman Reynolds
Best Short Animation
Les Trois Inventeurs
- Michel Ocelot
Seaside Woman
- Oscar Grillo
Bio Woman
- Bob Godfrey
The Cube
- Kamil Pixa