40th British Academy Film Awards

40th BAFTA Film Awards
1987----Best Film:
A Room With A View

The 40th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1987, honored the best films of 1986.

James Ivory's "A Room With A View" won the awards for Best Film, Actress, Supporting Actress, Production Design and Costume Design. "Hannah and Her Sisters", directed by Woody Allen, won 2 awards: Best Director and Best Screenplay-Original.

Winners & Nominees

Best Film

"A Room with a View"
*"Hannah and Her Sisters"
*"The Mission"
*"Mona Lisa"

Best Actor

Bob Hoskins - "Mona Lisa"
*Paul Hogan - "Crocodile Dundee"
*Woody Allen - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
*Michael Caine - "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Ray McAnally - "The Mission"
*Klaus Maria Brandauer - "Out of Africa"
*Simon Callow - "A Room with a View"
*Denholm Elliot - "A Room with a View"

Best Actress

Maggie Smith - "A Room with a View"
*Mia Farrow - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
*Meryl Streep - "Out of Africa"
*Cathy Tyson - "Mona Lisa"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Judi Dench - "A Room with a View"
*Rosanna Arquette - "After Hours"
*Barbara Hershey - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
*Rosemary Leach - "A Room with a View"

Best Direction

Woody Allen - "Hannah and Her Sisters"
*"The Mission" - Roland Joffe
*"Mona Lisa" - Neil Jordan
*James Ivory - "A Room With A View"

Best Screenplay - Original

"Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen
*"The Mission" - Robert Bolt
*"Mona Lisa" - David Leland and Neil Jordan
*"Crocodile Dundee" - Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell

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 and Mark Medoff
*"Ran" - Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni and Masato Ide

Best Cinematography

"Out of Africa" - David Watkin

Best Costume Design

"A Room with a View" - Jenny Beavan and John Bright

Best Sound

"Out of Africa" - Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins

Best Editing

"The Mission" - Jim Clark

Best Special Visual Effects

"Aliens" - Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson and Stan Winston

Best Score

"The Mission" - Ennio Morricone

Best Short Film

"La Boule"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Ran"

Best Makeup Artist

"Ran" - Chihako Naito, Noriko Takemizawa, Shohichiro Meda and Tameyuki Aimi

Best Production Design

"A Room with a View" - Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow