50th British Academy Film Awards
The 50th BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 29 April 1997, honoured the best films of 1996.
Anthony Minghella's The English Patient won for Best Film, while Secrets & Lies won the "Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film". Geoffrey Rush won for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Shine and Brenda Blethyn won for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in Secrets & Lies, respectively.
Winners and nominees
The English Patient – Saul Zaentz and Anthony Minghella | Joel Coen – Fargo
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Geoffrey Rush – Shine as David Helfgott
| Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
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Paul Scofield – The Crucible as Thomas Danforth
| Juliette Binoche – The English Patient as Hana
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| Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh | The English Patient – Anthony Minghella
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| The English Patient – John Seale | Richard III – Shuna Harwood
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| The English Patient – Walter Murch | The Nutty Professor – Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson
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| The English Patient – Gabriel Yared | Richard III – Tony Burrough
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| Shine – Jim Greenhorn, Toivo Lember, Livia Ruzic, Roger Savage and Gareth Vanderhope | Twister – Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Henry Labounta and Habib Zargarpour
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| Secrets & Lies – Simon Channing Williams and Mike Leigh | Ridicule – Frederic Brillion, Philippe Carcassonne, Gilles Legrand and Patrice Leconte
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| The Old Lady and the Pigeons – Bernard La Joie, Didier Brunner and Sylvain Chomet | Majorettes in Space – Carole Scotta and David Fourier
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Statistics
| Awards | Film |
| 6 | The English Patient |
| 3 | Secrets & Lies |
| 2 | Richard III |
| 2 | Shine |