42nd British Academy Film Awards (1989)
Highlights of 42nd British Academy Film Awards ceremony
The 42nd British Academy Film Awards honored the best films of 1988.
The Last Emperor won the Best Film award.
- WINNER
Best Film
The Last Emperor
Au Revoir les enfants
Babettes gaestebud
A Fish Called Wanda
Best Foreign Langauge Film
Babettes gaestebud
Best Director
Au Revoir les enfants
- Louis Malle
Babettes gaestebud
- Gabriel Axel
A Fish Called Wanda
- Charles Crichton
The Last Emperor
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Best Leading Actor
A Fish Called Wanda
- John Cleese
Fatal Attraction
- Michael Douglas
A Fish Called Wanda
- Kevin Kline
Good Morning, Vietnam
- Robin Williams
Best Leading Actress
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Maggie Smith
A Fish Called Wanda
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Moonstruck
- Cher
Babettes gaestebud
- Stephane Audran
Best Special Visual Effects
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Beetlejuice
Robocop
The Last Emperor
Best Screenplay Adapted
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Jean-Claude Carriere, Philip Kaufman
Babettes Feast
- Gabriel Axel
Empire of the Sun
- Tom Stoppard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Jeffrey Price, Peter Seaman
Best Screenplay Original
A World Apart
- Shawn Slovo
A Fish Called Wanda
- John Cleese
Moonstruck
- John Patrick Shanley
Au revoir les enfants
- Louis Malle
Best Cinematography
Empire of the Sun
- Allen Daviau
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Dean Cundey
Babettes Feast
- Henning Kristiansen
The Last Emperor
- Vittorio Storaro
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 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 Costume Design
The Last Emperor
- James Acheson
Empire of the Sun
- Bob Ringwood
The Dressmaker
- Judy Moorcroft
White Mischief
- Marit Allen
Best Sound
Empire of the Sun
- Charles L Campbell, Louis L Edemann, Robert Knudson, Tony Dawe
Good Morning, Vietnam
- Bill Phillips, Clive Winter, Terry Porter
Bird
- Alan Robert Murray, Robert G Henderson, Willie D Burton, Les Fresholtz
The Last Emperor
- Ivan Sharrock, Bill Rowe, Les Wiggins
Best Supporting Actor
A Fish Called Wanda
- Michael Palin
The Last Emperor
- Peter O'Toole
White Mischief
- Joss Ackland
A World Apart
- David Suchet
Best Supporting Actress
Moonstruck
- Olympia Dukakis
Fatal Attraction
- Anne Archer
A Fish Called Wanda
- Maria Aitken
A Handful of Dust
- Judi Dench
Best Make-Up and Hair
The Last Emperor
- Fabrizio Sforza
Robocop
- Carla Palmer
A Handful of Dust
- Sally Sutton
Beetlejuice
- Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short
Fellowship Award
Ingmar Bergman
Best Score
Empire of the Sun
- John Williams
Bird
- Lennie Niehaus
The Last Emperor
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
Moonstruck
- Dick Hyman