39th British Academy Film Awards

The Purple Rose of Cairo – Robert Greenhut and Woody Allen

• Amadeus – Saul Zaentz and Miloš Forman
• Back to the Future – Bob Gale, Neil Canton and Robert Zemeckis
• A Passage to India – John Knatchbull, Richard Goodwin and David Lean
• Witness – Edward S. Feldman and Peter Weir

William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina

• F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
• Harrison Ford – Witness as Detective John Book
• Victor Banerjee – A Passage to India as Doctor Aziz Ahmed

Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India as Mrs. Moore

• Alexandra Pigg – Letter to Brezhnev as Elaine
• Kelly McGillis – Witness as Rachel Lapp
• Mia Farrow – The Purple Rose of Cairo as Cecilia

Denholm Elliott – Defence of the Realm as Vernon Bayliss

• James Fox – A Passage to India as Richard Fielding
• John Gielgud – Plenty as Sir Leonard Darwin
• Saeed Jaffrey – My Beautiful Laundrette as Nasser Ali

Rosanna Arquette – Desperately Seeking Susan as Roberta Glass

• Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor as Maerose Prizzi
• Judi Dench – Wetherby as Marcia Pilborough
• Tracey Ullman – Plenty as Alice Park

The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen

• Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
• My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
• Witness – Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley

Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach

• Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
• A Passage to India – David Lean
• The Shooting Party – Julian Bond

Amadeus – Miroslav Ondříček

• The Emerald Forest – Philippe Rousselot
• A Passage to India – Ernest Day
• Witness – John Seale

The Cotton Club – Milena Canonero

• Amadeus – Theodor Pištěk
• Legend – Charles Knode
• A Passage to India – Judy Moorcroft

Amadeus – Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler

• Back to the Future – Arthur Schmidt and Harry Keramidas
• A Chorus Line – John Bloom
• Witness – Thom Noble

Amadeus – Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith

• The Emerald Forest – Peter Frampton, Paul Engelen, Anna Dryhurst, Luis Michelotti and Beth Presares
• Legend – Peter Robb-King and Rob Bottin
• Mask – Michael Westmore

Witness – Maurice Jarre

• Beverly Hills Cop – Harold Faltermeyer
• The Emerald Forest – Junior Homrich and Brian Gascoigne
• A Passage to India – Maurice Jarre

Brazil – Norman Garwood

• Amadeus – Patrizia von Brandenstein
• Back to the Future – Lawrence G. Paull
• A Passage to India – John Box

Amadeus – John Nutt, Chris Newman and Mark Berger

• Carmen – Hugues Darmois, Harald Maury, Dominique Hennequin and Bernard Le Roux
• A Chorus Line – Jonathan Bates, Chris Newman and Gerry Humphreys
• The Cotton Club – Edward Beyer, Jack Jacobsen and David Carroll

Brazil – George Gibbs and Richard Conway

• Back to the Future – Kevin Pike and Ken Ralston
• Legend – Nick Allder and Peter Voysey
• The Purple Rose of Cairo – Greenberg Associates

Omnibus: Leonard Berstein's West Side Story – Christopher Swann

• Marilyn Monroe: Say Goodbye to the President – Christopher Olgiati
• David Lean: A Life in Film – Nigel Wattis
• The Frozen Ocean: Part 1 – Kingdom of the Ice Bear – Mike Salisbury and Hugh Miles

Colonel Redl – Manfred Durniok and István Szabó

• Carmen – Patrice Ledoux and Francesco Rosi
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart – Tom Sternberg, Wayne Wang and Danny Yung
• Subway – Luc Besson and Francois Ruggieri

Alias the Jester – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall

• Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall
• SuperTed – David Edward and Mike Young
• The Wind in the Willows – Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove

Careless Talk – Noella Smith

• One for My Baby – Chris Fallon
• The Woman Who Married Clark Gable – Thaddeus O'Sullivan