40th British Academy Film Awards

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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

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

• The Mission - Chris Menges
• Ran - Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda
• A Room with a View - Tony Pierce-Roberts

Best Costume Design

A Room with a View - Jenny Beavan and John Bright

• Ran - Emi Wada
• The Mission - Enrico Sabbatini
• Out of Africa - Milena Canonero

Best Sound

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

• A Room with a View
• The Mission
• Aliens

Best Editing

The Mission - Jim Clark

• A Room with a View - Humphrey Dixon
• Mona Lisa - Lesley Walker
• Hannah and Her Sisters - Susan Morse

Best Special Visual Effects

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

• Labyrinth
• Dreamchild
• The Mission

Best Score

The Mission - Ennio Morricone

• Round Midnight - Herbie Hancock
• Out of Africa - John Barry
• A Room with a View - Richard Robbins

Best Short Film

La Boule

Best Foreign Language Film

Ran

Best Makeup Artist

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

• Aliens - Peter Robb-King
• Sid and Nancy - Peter Frampton
• Dreamchild - Jenny Shircore

Best Production Design

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

• Aliens - Peter Lamont
• The Mission - Stuart Craig
• Ran - Yoshirō Muraki, Shinobu Muraki

Academy Fellowship

Steven Spielberg