40th British Academy Film Awards

Best Film

• A Room with a View – Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
  • Hannah and Her Sisters – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen
  • The Mission – Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam and Roland Joffé
  • Mona Lisa – Stephen Woolley, Patrick Cassavetti and Neil Jordan

Best Direction

• Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
  • James Ivory – A Room with a View
  • Neil Jordan – Mona Lisa
  • Roland Joffé – The Mission

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• 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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Maggie Smith – A Room with a View as Charlotte Bartlett
  • Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa as Simone
  • Meryl Streep – Out of AfricaasKaren Blixen
  • Mia Farrow – Hannah and Her Sisters as Hannah

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Ray McAnally – The Mission as Cardinal Altamirano
  • Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View as Emerson
  • Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of AfricaasBror and Hans
  • Simon Callow – A Room with a View as Beebe

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Judi Dench – A Room with a View as Eleanor Lavish
  • Barbara Hershey – Hannah and Her Sisters as Lee
  • Rosanna Arquette – After Hours as Marcy Franklin
  • Rosemary Leach – A Room with a View as Mrs. Honeychurch

Best Original Screenplay

• Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
  • Crocodile Dundee – Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell
  • The Mission – Robert Bolt
  • Mona Lisa – Neil Jordan and David Leland

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke
  • Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
  • The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
  • Ran – Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni and Masato Ide
  • A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Best Cinematography

• Out of Africa – David Watkin
  • The Mission – Chris Menges
  • Ran – Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda
  • A Room with a View – Tony Pierce-Roberts

Best Costume Design

• A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
  • The Mission – Enrico Sabbatini
  • Out of Africa – Milena Canonero
  • Ran – Emi Wada

Best Editing

• The Mission – Jim Clark
  • Hannah and Her Sisters – Susan E. Morse
  • Mona Lisa – Lesley Walker
  • A Room with a View – Humphrey Dixon

Best Makeup and Hair

• Ran – Shohichiro Meda, Tameyuki Aimi, Chihako Naito and Noriko Takamizawa
  • Aliens – Peter Robb-King
  • Dreamchild – Jenny Shircore
  • Sid and Nancy – Peter Frampton

Best Original Music

• The Mission – Ennio Morricone
  • Out of Africa – John Barry
  • A Room with a View – Richard Robbins
  • Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock

Best Production Design

• A Room with a View – Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow
  • Aliens – Peter Lamont
  • The Mission – Stuart Craig
  • Ran – Yoshirō Muraki and Shinobu Muraki

Best Sound

• Out of Africa – Tom McCarthy Jr., Peter Handford and Chris Jenkins
  • Aliens – Don Sharpe, Roy Charman and Graham V. Hartstone
  • The Mission – Ian Fuller, Bill Rowe and Clive Winter
  • A Room with a View – Tony Lenny, Ray Beckett and Richard King

Best Special Visual Effects

• Aliens – Robert Skotak, Brian Johnson, John Richardson, Stan Winston and Suzanne M. Benson
  • Dreamchild – Duncan Kenworthy, John Stephenson and Chris Carr
  • Labyrinth – Roy Field, Brian Froud, George Gibbs and Tony Dunsterville
  • The Mission – Peter Hutchinson

Best Documentary

• Shoah – Claude Lanzmann
  • British Cinema: Personal View A Turnip Head's Guide to the British Cinema – Alan Parker
  • Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness – John Dollar
  • Forty Minutes: The Fishing Party – Paul Watson
  • Omnibus: The Mission – Robin Laugh
  • Viewpoint 86: Afghanistan: The Agony of a Nation – Sandy Gall

Best Film Not in the English Language

• Ran – Serge Silberman, Masato Hara and Akira Kurosawa
  • Betty Blue – Jean-Jacques Beineix
  • Ginger and Fred – Alberto Grimaldi and Federico Fellini
  • Otello – Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus and Franco Zeffirelli

Best Short Animation

• SuperTed – David Edwards and Robin Lyons
  • Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall
  • Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey – David Hiller
  • Paddington Goes to School – Martin Pullen
  • Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends – Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton
  • The Wind in the Willows – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall

Best Short Film

• La Boule – Simon Shore
  • King's Christmas – Graham Dixon
  • Mohammed's Daughter – Suri Krishnamma
  • Night Movie – Gur Heller