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
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