42nd British Academy Film Awards
The 42nd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1989, honoured the best films of 1988.
Jeremy Thomas' and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor won the award for Best Film.
Winners and nominees
Academy Fellowship: Ingmar Bergman, Best Actor winner
, Best Actress winner
, Best Supporting Actor winner
, Best Supporting Actress winner
, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner
The Last Emperor – Jeremy Thomas and Bernardo Bertolucci | Louis Malle – Au revoir les enfants
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John Cleese – A Fish Called Wanda as Archie Leach
| Maggie Smith – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne as Judith Hearne
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Michael Palin – A Fish Called Wanda as Ken Pile
| Judi Dench – A Handful of Dust as Beaver
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| A World Apart – Shawn Slovo | The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
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| Empire of the Sun – Allen Daviau | The Last Emperor – James Acheson
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| Fatal Attraction – Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger | The Last Emperor – Fabrizio Sforza
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| Empire of the Sun – John Williams | – Dean Tavoularis
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| 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
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| This Week: Death on the Rock – Chris Oxley | Babette's Feast – Just Betzer, Bo Christensen and Gabriel Axel
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| The Hill Farm – Mark Baker | Defence Counsel Sedov – Evgeny Tsymbal
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Statistics
| Awards | Film |
| 3 | Empire of the Sun |
| 3 | The Last Emperor |
| 2 | A Fish Called Wanda |