32nd British Academy Film Awards
32nd British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 22 March 1979 |
Site | Wembley Conference Centre |
Hosted by | Sue Lawley Michael York |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Julia |
Best Actor | Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl |
Best Actress | Jane Fonda Julia |
Most awards | Julia (4) |
Most nominations | Julia (10) |
The 32nd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the Wembley Conference Centre, London in 1979, honoured the best films of 1978.[1]
The film Julia had ten nominations and four awards, including Best Film of 32nd BAFTA.[2]
Winners and nominees[]
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Alan Parker – Midnight Express
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Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
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Jane Fonda – Julia as Lillian Hellman
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John Hurt – Midnight Express as Max
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Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve
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Death on the Nile – Anthony Powell
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Midnight Express – Gerry Hambling
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Star Wars – John Williams
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Joe Alves
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Star Wars – Sam Shaw, Robert Rutledge, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Richard Portman and Ben Burtt
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The Silent Withness – David Rolfe |
Best Short Factual Film
Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook – Tony White
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Best Specialised Film
Twenty Times More Likely – Robert Young
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Christopher Reeve – Superman as Superman
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Superman – Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, |
Statistics[]
Nominations | Film |
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10 | Julia |
9 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
6 | Midnight Express |
Star Wars | |
5 | Superman |
4 | Death on the Nile |
3 | The Goodbye Girl |
2 | The Duellists |
Interiors | |
Saturday Night Fever | |
A Wedding |
Awards | Film |
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4 | Julia |
3 | Midnight Express |
2 | Star Wars |
See also[]
- 51st Academy Awards
- 4th César Awards
- 31st Directors Guild of America Awards
- 36th Golden Globe Awards
- 5th Saturn Awards
- 31st Writers Guild of America Awards
References[]
- ^ "BAFTA AWARDS - COLOUR". www.aparchive.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ^ "1979 BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- British Academy Film Awards
- 1978 film awards
- 1979 in British cinema
- March 1979 events in the United Kingdom
- 1979 in London