38th British Academy Film Awards

38th British Academy Film Awards
Date	5 March 1985
Site	Grosvenor House Hotel
Highlights
Best Film	The Killing Fields
Best Actor	Haing S. Ngor The Killing Fields
Best Actress	Maggie Smith A Private Function
Most awards	The Killing Fields (8)
Most nominations	The Killing Fields (13)
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The 38th British Film Awards, which honoured the best films of 1984, were presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 5 March 1985.^[1][2]

The evening's big winner was The Killing Fields, which had 13 nominations and won eight of them.

Winners and nominees^[3]

Best Film

The Killing Fields

• Paris, Texas
• A Private Function
• The Dresser

Best Actor

Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields

• Sam Waterston in The Killing Fields
• Albert Finney in The Dresser
• Tom Courtenay in The Dresser

Best Actress

Maggie Smith in A Private Function

• Helen Mirren in Cal
• Meryl Streep in Silkwood
• Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment

Best Supporting Actor

Denholm Elliott in A Private Function

• Michael Elphick in Gorky Park
• Ian Holm in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• Ralph Richardson in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Best Supporting Actress

Liz Smith in A Private Function

• Eileen Atkins in The Dresser
• Tuesday Weld in Once Upon a Time in America
• Cher in Silkwood

Best Direction

Wim Wenders for Paris, Texas

• Peter Yates for The Dresser
• Roland Joffé for The Killing Fields
• Sergio Leone for Once Upon a Time in America

Best Original Screenplay

Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen

• The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek
• Comfort and Joy - Bill Forsyth
• A Private Function - Alan Bennett

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson

• Another Country - Julian Mitchell
• The Dresser - Ronald Harwood
• Paris, Texas - Sam Shepard

Best Cinematography

The Killing Fields - Chris Menges

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Douglas Slocombe
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - John Alcott
• Once Upon a Time in America - Tonino Delli Colli

Best Editing

The Killing Fields - Jim Clark

• Under Fire - John Bloom & Mark Conte
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Michael Kahn
• Another Country - Gerry Hambling

Best Production Design

The Killing Fields - Roy Walker

• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Stuart Craig
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - Allan Cameron
• The Company of Wolves - Anton Furst

Best Costume Design

Once Upon a Time in America - Gabriella Pescucci

• The Company of Wolves - Elizabeth Weller
• The Bostonians - Jenny Beavan & John Bright
• Un amour de Swann - Yvonne Sassinot De Nesles

Best Makeup Artist

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Paul Engelen, Peter Frampton, Rick Baker, Joan Hills

• The Killing Fields - Tommie Manderson
• The Dresser - Alan Boyle
• The Company of Wolves - Jane Royle & Christopher Tucker

Best Sound

The Killing Fields - Bill Rowe, Ian Fuller, Clive Winter

• Carmen - Carlos Faruolo, Alfonso Marcos, Antonio Illan
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Ivan Sharrock, Gordon K McCallum, Les Wiggins, Roy Baker
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Ben Burtt, Simon Kaye, Laurel Ladevich

Best Special Visual Effects

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Mike McAlister, Lorne Peterson

• Ghostbusters - Richard Edlund
• The Company of Wolves - Christopher Tucker, Alan Whibley
• The Killing Fields - Fred Cramer

Best Score

Once Upon a Time in America - Ennio Morricone

• The Killing Fields - Mike Oldfield
• Carmen - Paco de Lucía
• Paris, Texas - Ry Cooder

Best Original Song

"Ghostbusters" in Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

• "No More Lonely Nights" in Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney
• "Together in Electric Dreams" in Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey
• "I Just Called To Say I Love You" in The Woman in Red - Stevie Wonder

Best Foreign Language Film

Carmen

• A Sunday in the Country
• Un amour de Swann
• The Return of Martin Guerre

Best Short Film

The Dress

• Killing Time
• Samson and Delilah

Most Promising Newcomer to Film

Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields

• Rupert Everett in Another Country
• John Lynch in Cal
• Tim Roth in The Hit

Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema

Alan Parker & Alan Marshall

References

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