British Academy Film Awards 1980

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The 33rd British Academy Film Awards ceremony took place in London in 1980 . The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) film awards were given in 16 categories; there was also a special and an honorary award category. The award honored films from 1979 .

The most successful films
(at least two nominations;
highlighted = most awards,
N = nomination; A = award)
Movie N A.
Manhattan 10 2
Apocalypse Now 9 2
Those who go through hell 9 2
Alien - The creepy creature from a strange world 7th 2
Yanks - We were strangers yesterday 7th 2
The China Syndrome 4th 2
The European 3 0

Award winners and nominations

In the run-up to the event, no film had been able to establish itself as a favorite, with Woody Allen's Manhattan with ten nominations just ahead of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Michael Cimino's Going Through Hell , which each received nine nominations. No film won more than two BAFTAs, so James Bridges ' The China Syndrome , which received two awards in the main categories of Best Actor and Best Actress from just four nominations , was a winner of the evening.

Best movie

Manhattan - Director: Woody Allen

Apocalypse Now - Director: Francis Ford Coppola
The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome) - Director: James Bridges
Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter) - Director: Michael Cimino

Best director

Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now

Woody Allen - Manhattan
Michael Cimino - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
John Schlesinger - Yanks - Yesterday we were still strangers (Yanks)

Best Actor

Jack Lemmon - Das China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)

Woody Allen - Manhattan
Robert De Niro - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
Martin Sheen - Apocalypse Now

Best main actress

Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)

Diane Keaton - Manhattan
Maggie Smith - The Crazy California Hotel (California Suite)
Meryl Streep - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

Best supporting actor

Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now

Denholm Elliott - Saint Jack
John Hurt - Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world (Alien)
Christopher Walken - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

The best supporting actress

Rachel Roberts - Yanks - Yesterday We Were Strangers (Yanks)

Lisa Eichhorn - The Europeans (The Europeans)
Mariel Hemingway - Manhattan
Meryl Streep - Manhattan

Best Young Actor

Dennis Christopher - Four crazy guys - We can all make it, no one can make us (Breaking Away)

Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story (The Buddy Holly Story)
Sigourney Weaver - Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world (Alien)
Ray Winstone - That Summer!

Best script

Woody Allen , Marshall Brickman - Manhattan

James Bridges , TS Cook , Mike Gray - The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)
Deric Washburn - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
Walter Bernstein , Colin Welland - Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers (Yanks)

Best camera

Vilmos Zsigmond - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

Vittorio Storaro - Apocalypse Now
Gordon Willis - Manhattan
Dick Bush - Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers (Yanks)

Best production design

Michael Seymour - Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world (Alien)

Brian Morris - Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers (Yanks)
Jeremiah Rusconi - The Europeans (The Europeans)
Dean Tavoularis - Apocalypse Now

Best costumes

Shirley Russell - Yanks - Yesterday we were still strangers (Yanks)

John Mollo - Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world (Alien)
Judy Moorcroft - The Europeans (The Europeans)
Shirley Russell- The Secret of Agatha Christie (Agatha)

Best film score

Ennio Morricone - In the Embers of the South (Days of Heaven)

Richard Rodney Bennett - Yanks - Yesterday We Were Strangers (Yanks)
Carmine Coppola , Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Jerry Goldsmith - Alien - The creepy creature from an alien world (Alien)

Best cut

Peter Zinner - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

Lisa Fruchtman , Gerald B. Greenberg , Richard Marks , Walter Murch - Apocalypse Now
Susan E. Morse - Manhattan
Terry Rawlings - Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world (Alien)

Best tone

Derrick Leather, Bill Rowe , Jim Shields - Alien - The uncanny creature from an alien world (Alien)

Nathan Boxer , Richard P. Cirincione , Walter Murch - Apocalypse Now
Jack Higgins, Dan Sable, James Sabat - Manhattan
James J. Klinger, C. Darin Knight , Richard Portman - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)

Best short film

Butch Minds the Baby - Director: Peter Webb

Dilemma - Directed by Clive Mitchell
Dream Doll - Director: Bob Godfrey
Mr. Pascal - Director: Alison de Vere

Best documentary

The wooden shoe tree (L'albero degli zoccoli) - Director: Ermanno Olmi

Special and honorary awards

Academy Fellowship

David Attenborough - British wildlife filmmaker and naturalist
John Huston - American film director, screenwriter and actor

Outstanding British contribution to cinema

(Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema)

Children's Film Foundation - a non-profit organization founded in 1951 that produced British children's films

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