40th British Academy Film Awards (1987)
Highlights of 40th British Academy Film Awards ceremony
The 40th British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1986.
A Room With A View won the Best Film award.
- WINNER
Best Film
A Room with a View
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
Mona Lisa
Best Foreign Langauge Film
Ran
Best Director
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Woody Allen
The Mission
- Roland Joffe
Mona Lisa
- Neil Jordan
A Room With A View
- James Ivory
Best Leading Actor
Mona Lisa
- Bob Hoskins
Crocodile Dundee
- Paul Hogan
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Woody Allen
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Michael Caine
Best Leading Actress
A Room with a View
- Maggie Smith
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Mia Farrow
Out of Africa
- Meryl Streep
Mona Lisa
- Cathy Tyson
Best Special Visual Effects
Aliens
- Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston
Labyrinth
Dreamchild
The Mission
Best Screenplay Adapted
Out of Africa
- Kurt Luedtke
The Color Purple
- Menny Meyjes
A Room with a View
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Children of a Lesser God
- Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
Ran
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Best Screenplay Original
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Woody Allen
The Mission
- Robert Bolt
Mona Lisa
- David Leland, Neil Jordan
Crocodile Dundee
- Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell
Best Cinematography
Out of Africa
- David Watkin
The Mission
- Chris Menges
Ran
- Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda
A Room with a View
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
Best Editing
The Mission
- Jim Clark
A Room with a View
- Humphrey Dixon
Mona Lisa
- Lesley Walker
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Susan Morse
Best Production Design
A Room with a View
- Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow
Aliens
- Peter Lamont
The Mission
- Stuart Craig
Ran
- Yoshiro Muraki, Shinobu Muraki
Best Costume Design
A Room with a View
- Jenny Beavan, John Bright
Ran
- Emi Wada
The Mission
- Enrico Sabbatini
Out of Africa
- Milena Canonero
Best Sound
Out of Africa
- Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford, Chris Jenkins
A Room with a View
The Mission
Aliens
Best Supporting Actor
The Mission
- Ray McAnally
Out of Africa
- Klaus Maria Brandauer
A Room with a View
- Simon Callow
A Room with a View
- Denholm Elliot
Best Supporting Actress
A Room with a View
- Judi Dench
After Hours
- Rosanna Arquette
Hannah and Her Sisters
- Barbara Hershey
A Room with a View
- Rosemary Leach
Best Make-Up and Hair
Ran
- Chihako Naito, Noriko Takemizawa, Shohichiro Meda, Tameyuki Aimi
Aliens
- Peter Robb-King
Sid and Nancy
- Peter Frampton
Dreamchild
- Jenny Shircore
Best Short Film
La Boule
Fellowship Award
Steven Spielberg
Best Score
The Mission
- Ennio Morricone
Round Midnight
- Herbie Hancock
Out of Africa
- John Barry
A Room with a View
- Richard Robbins