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British Academy Film Awards

34th edition

  • March 22, 1981
  • United Kingdom

The 34th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 22 March 1981 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1980. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 1980.

Awards

Movie People Status
Best Picture
The Elephant Man Jonathan Sanger - as producer(s) Winner
Being There Andrew Braunsberg - as producer(s)
Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka - as producer(s)
Kramer vs. Kramer Stanley R. Jaffe - as producer(s)
Best Director
Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa Winner
Fame Alan Parker
The Elephant Man David Lynch
Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Elephant Man John Hurt Winner
Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman
All That Jazz Roy Scheider
Being There Peter Sellers
Best Actress in a Leading Role
My Brilliant Career Judy Davis Winner
The Rose Bette Midler
Kramer vs. Kramer Meryl Streep
Being There Shirley MacLaine
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
My Brilliant Career Judy Davis Winner
Urban Cowboy Debra Winger
Gregory's Girl John Gordon Sinclair
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands Sônia Braga
Best Screenplay
Being There Jerzy Kosiński Winner
Airplane! Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
The Elephant Man Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
Best Cinematography
All That Jazz Giuseppe Rotunno Winner
The Black Stallion Caleb Deschanel
The Elephant Man Freddie Francis
Kagemusha Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda
Best Original Score
The Empire Strikes Back John Williams Winner
Breaking Glass Hazel O'Connor
Fame Michael Gore
Flash Gordon Queen, Howard Blake
Best Film Editing
All That Jazz Alan Heim Winner
The Elephant Man Anne V. Coates
Fame Gerry Hambling
Kramer vs. Kramer Gerald B. Greenberg
Best Sound
Fame Chris Newman, Les Wiggins, Michael J. Kohut Winner
All That Jazz Maurice Schell, Chris Newman, Dick Vorisek
Don Giovanni Jean-Louis Ducarme, Jacques Maumont, Michelle Nenny
The Empire Strikes Back Peter Sutton, Ben Burtt, Bill Varney
The Rose Jim Webb, Chris McLaughlin, Kay Rose, Theodore Soderberg
Best Production Design
The Elephant Man Stuart Craig Winner
All That Jazz Philip Rosenberg
The Empire Strikes Back Norman Reynolds
Flash Gordon Danilo Donati
Best Costume Design
Kagemusha Seiichiro Momosawa Winner
All That Jazz Albert Wolsky
Don Giovanni Frantz Salieri
Flash Gordon Danilo Donati
Best Short Film (Live Action)
Sredni Vashtar Andrew Birkin Winner
Box On Lindsey Clennell
The Dollar Bottom Roger Christian
Possessions Andrew Bogle
Best Animated Short Film
The Three Inventors Michel Ocelot Winner
Bio Woman Bob Godfrey
The Cube Kamil Pixa
Seaside Woman Oscar Grillo
BAFTA Fellowship
Abel Gance, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell Winner
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award
Kevin Brownlow Winner
Statistics

Most Awarded

2 or more wins
  • The Elephant Man 3
  • All That Jazz 2
  • Kagemusha 2
  • My Brilliant Career 2

Most Nominated

3 or more nominations
  • The Elephant Man 7
  • All That Jazz 6
  • Kramer vs. Kramer 6
  • Being There 4
  • Fame 4
  • Kagemusha 4
  • The Empire Strikes Back 3
  • Flash Gordon 3

Most Unluckiest

wins / nominations
  • Kramer vs. Kramer 0 / 6
  • The Elephant Man 3 / 7
  • All That Jazz 2 / 6
  • Being There 1 / 4
  • Fame 1 / 4
  • Flash Gordon 0 / 3
  • Kagemusha 2 / 4
  • The Empire Strikes Back 1 / 3

Only one nomination

14 movies:
  • Airplane!
  • Bio Woman
  • The Black Stallion
  • Box On
  • Breaking Glass
  • The Cube
  • The Dollar Bottom
  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
  • Gregory's Girl
  • Possessions
  • Seaside Woman
  • Sredni Vashtar
  • The Three Inventors
  • Urban Cowboy

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