British Academy Film Awards 1999

The 52nd British Academy Film Awards ceremony took place on April 11, 1999 at the Business Design Center in London . The film awards of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) were awarded in 21 categories, plus three categories of honorary awards. For the first time, a prize was awarded in the Best Young Talent category. The event was hosted by the British presenter Jonathan Ross .

Business Design Center in London, the venue

Jonathan Ross, the host of the event

Award winners and nominations

Movie	N	S.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory
Shakespeare in Love	15th	4th
Elizabeth	12	5
The soldier James Ryan	10	3
The Truman Show	7th	3
Little Voice	6th	0
Hilary & Jackie	5	0
Life is Beautiful	3	1
With all my might	2	1
Velvet gold mine	2	1
Jack, Queen, King, grass	2	0

With ten or more nominations, Shakespeare in Love (15 nominations), Elizabeth (12) and Saving Private Ryan (10) were favorites in advance. Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth received the most awards of the evening with four prizes each. The losers of the evening were Little Voice and Hilary & Jackie , who received six and five nominations respectively.

Best movie

Shakespeare in Love - Director: John Madden

Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan) - Director: Steven Spielberg

Die Truman Show (The Truman Show) - Director: Peter Weir

Elizabeth - Director: Shekhar Kapur

Niven Howie - Jack, Queen, King, grass (Lock, Stock & Two Stocking Barrels)

Michael Kahn - Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)

Best tone

Richard Hymns , Ron Judkins , Andy Nelson , Gary Rydstrom , Gary Summers - Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)

David Crozier , Graham Daniel , Nigel Heath , Ray Merrin , Julian Slater - Hilary & Jackie (Hilary and Jackie)

Graham Daniel , Rodney Glenn , Peter Lindsay , Ray Merrin - Little Voice

John Downer , Peter Glossop , Dominic Lester , Robin O'Donoghue - Shakespeare in Love

Best visual effects

Neil Corbould , Stefen catch Meier , Roger Guyett - Saving Private Ryan (Saving Private Ryan)

Grahame Andrew , Chris Godfrey , Neal Scanlan , Bill Westenhofer - Pig in the City (Babe: Pig in the City)

Craig Barron , Peter Chesney , Brad Kuehn , Michael J. McAlister - Die Truman Show (The Truman Show)

John Bell , Ken Bielenberg , Kendal Cronkhite , Philippe Gluckman - Antz

Best animated short film

The Canterbury Tales - Aida Zyablikova, Renat Zinnurov, Ashley Potter, Dave Antrobus, Claire Jennings, Mic Graves, Joanna Quinn , Les Mills, Jonathan Myerson

1001 Nights - Yukio Sonoyama, Mike Smith

Gogwana - Helen Nabarro, Deiniol Morris, Sion Jones, Michael Mort, Joe Turner

Humdrum - Carla Shelley, Julie Lockhart, Peter Peake

Best short film

Home - Hannah Lewis, Morag McKinnon, Colin McLaren

Anthracitis - Natasha Dack, Sara Sugarman

Eight - Jon Finn, Stephen Daldry , Tim Clague

In Memory Of Dorothy Bennett - Catherine McArthur, Martin Radich

Best young talent

Richard Kwietniowski - Life and Death on Long Island (Love and Death on Long Island)

Sandra Goldbacher - The Governess

Shane Meadows - Twenty Four Seven

Matthew Vaughn - Jack, Queen, King, grass (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels)

Best Non-English Language Film

Central Station (Central do Brasil) , Brazil - Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre , Arthur Cohn and Walter Salles

Life is beautiful (La vita è bella) , Italy - Roberto Benigni , Gianluigi Braschi and Elda Ferri

Duel of the rapiers (Le Bossu) , France - Philippe de Broca and Patrick Godeau

Live Flesh - With skin and hair (Carne trémula) , France / Spain - Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar

Prizes of honor

Academy Fellowship

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise , British comedians and actors, founders of the comedian duo Morecambe and Wise
Elizabeth Taylor , British-American actress

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

Michael Kuhn - Kenyan-British film producer (Qwerty Films, including Priscilla - Queen of the Desert , Four Weddings and a Funeral )

Audience award

Jack, Queen, King, grass (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels)

Web links

Winners and nominees on bafta.org

Individual evidence

^ David Lister: And the Bafta nominations are ... independent.co.uk, March 2, 1999
↑ Not including the audience award that the film won.

[1] David Lister: And the Bafta nominations are ... independent.co.uk, March 2, 1999

[2] Not including the audience award that the film won.

British Academy Film Awards 1999

Award winners and nominations

Best movie

Best British Film

Best director

Best Actor

Best main actress

Best supporting actor

The best supporting actress

Best adapted script

Best original script

Best camera

Best production design

Best costumes

Best mask

Best film score

Best cut