BAFTA Awards 1980-1989: Some Britannia Award Pampering!
BAFTA started the Britannia Awards in 1989; these awards are given to individuals. The ceremony happened in Los Angeles and the award was called ‘Britannia Award for Excellence in Film’.
The Winners’ list is as follows:
1980:
Film: The Elephant Man
Director: Akira Kurosawa – Kagemusha
Actor: John Hurt – The Elephant Man
Actress: Judy Davis – My Brilliant Career
1981:
Film: Chariots of Fire
Director: Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Actor: Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Actress: Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
1982:
Film: Gandhi
Director: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
Actor: Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
Actress: Katherine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
1983:
Film: Educating Rita
Director: Bill Forsyth – Local Hero
Actors: Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie; Michael Caine – Educating Rita
Actress: Julie Walter – Educating Rita
1984:
Film: The Killing Fields
Director: Wim Wenders – Paris, Texas
Actor: Dr Haing S Ngor – The Killing Fields
Actress: Maggie Smith – A Private Function
1985:
Film: The Purple Rose of Cairo
Actor: William Hurt – Kiss Of the Spider Woman
Actress: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
1986:
Film: A Room with a View
Director: Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
Actor: Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
Actress: Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
1987:
Film: Jean De Florette
Director: Oliver Stone – Platoon
Actor: Sean Connery – The Name of the Rose
Actress: Anne Bancroft – 84 Charing Cross Road
1988:
Film: The Last Emperor
Director: Louis Malle – Goodbye Children
Actor: John Cleese – A Fish Called Wanda
Actress: Maggie Smith – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
1989:
Film: Dead Poet’s Society
Director: Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
Actress: Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine