42nd British Academy Film Awards
Date19 March 1989
SiteGrosvenor House Hotel
Hosted byAnna Ford
David Dimbleby
Highlights
Best FilmThe Last Emperor
Best ActorJohn Cleese
A Fish Called Wanda
Best ActressMaggie Smith
The Lonely Passion of
Judith Hearne
Most awardsEmpire of the Sun &
The Last Emperor (3)
Most nominationsThe Last Emperor (11)

The 42nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1989, honoured the best films of 1988.[1]

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

Winners and nominees

Academy Fellowship: Alec Guinness

Bernardo Bertolucci, Best Film co-winner
John Cleese, Best Actor winner
Maggie Smith, Best Actress winner
Michael Palin, Best Supporting Actor winner
Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actress winner
Jean-Claude Carrière, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
Philip Kaufman, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
John Williams, Best Original Music winner

The Last Emperor – Jeremy Thomas and Bernardo Bertolucci

Louis Malle – Au revoir les enfants

John Cleese – A Fish Called Wanda as Archie Leach

Maggie Smith – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Judith Hearne

Michael Palin – A Fish Called Wanda as Ken Pile

Judi Dench – A Handful of Dust as Mrs. Beaver

A World Apart – Shawn Slovo

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

Empire of the Sun – Allen Daviau

The Last Emperor – James Acheson

Fatal Attraction – Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger

The Last Emperor – Fabrizio Sforza

Empire of the Sun – John Williams

Tucker: The Man and His Dream – Dean Tavoularis

Empire of the Sun – Charles L. Campbell, Colin Charles, Louis Edemann, Robert Knudson and Tony Dawe

Who Framed Roger Rabbit – George Gibbs, Richard Williams, Ken Ralston and Edward Jones

This Week: Death on the Rock – Chris Oxley

Babette's Feast – Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Gabriel Axel

The Hill Farm – Mark Baker

Defence Counsel Sedov – Evgeny Tsymbal

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations Film
11 The Last Emperor
9 A Fish Called Wanda
6 Babette's Feast
Empire of the Sun
5 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4 Au revoir les enfants
Moonstruck
3 Fatal Attraction
2 Beetlejuice
Bird
Good Morning, Vietnam
A Handful of Dust
RoboCop
White Mischief
A World Apart
Films that received multiple awards
Awards Film
3 Empire of the Sun
The Last Emperor
2 A Fish Called Wanda

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Film in 1989". BAFTA. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
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