40th British Academy Film Awards


The 40th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1987, honoured 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 two awards: Best Director and Best Screenplay-Original.

Winners and nominees

Fellowship Award

Federico Fellini

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award

Film Production Executives

A Room with a View – Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
  • James Ivory – A Room with a View
  • Neil Jordan – Mona Lisa
  • Roland Joffé – The Mission
Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa as George
  • Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters as Elliot
  • Paul Hogan – Crocodile Dundee as Michael Dundee
  • Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters as Mickey
Maggie Smith – A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
Ray McAnally – The Mission as Cardinal Altamirano
Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke
Out of Africa – David Watkin
A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
The Mission – Jim Clark
Ran – Shohichiro Meda, Tameyuki Aimi, Chihako Naito and Noriko Takamizawa
The Mission – Ennio Morricone
A Room with a View – Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow
Out of Africa – Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins
Aliens – Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston and Suzanne M. Benson
Shoah – Claude Lanzmann
Ran – Serge Silberman, Masato Hara and Akira Kurosawa
SuperTed – David Edwards and Robin Lyons
La Boule – Simon Shore
  • King's Christmas – Graham Dixon
  • Mohammed's Daughter – Suri Krishnamma
  • Night Movie – Gur Heller

Statistics

AwardsFilm
5A Room with a View
3The Mission
3Out of Africa
2Hannah and Her Sisters
2Ran