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BAFTA 1981: British Academy Film Awards (Movies from 1980)

Highlights

Best Film: The Elephant Man
Best Director: Akira Kurosawa
Best Leading Actor: John Hurt
Best Leading Actress: Judy Davis
Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film: Judy Davis
Best Screenplay: Jerzy Kosinski
Best Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno
Best Editing: Alan Heim

Best Production Design: Stuart Craig
Best Costume Design: Seiichiro Momosawa
Best Sound: Christopher Newman, Les Wiggins, Michael J. Kohut
Best Animated Film: The Three Inventors (S)
Best Short: Sredni Vashtar (S)
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music: John Williams
Best TV Series - Drama: Oppenheimer (TV Miniseries)
Best TV Series - Comedy: Yes Minister (TV Series)
Best Leading Actor TV - Drama: Denholm Elliott
Best Leading Actor TV - Drama: Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'Gentle Folk'
Best Leading Actor TV - Drama: Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'In Hiding'
Best Leading Actor TV - Drama: Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'The Stinker'
Best Leading Actress TV - Drama: Peggy Ashcroft
Best Leading Actress TV - Drama: Peggy Ashcroft, for Episode 'Caught on a Train'
Best TV Editing: Tariq Anwar
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best Original Television Music: Carl Davis
Best TV Costume Design: Reg Samuel
Best TV Make Up & Hair Design: Sylvia Thornton
Best TV Sound: Tony Anscombe

Most awarded films

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Most nominated films

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Best Film - 1981

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All of Us Strangers

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- Akira Kurosawa
  
  Winner
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
4 nominations 2 awards
- David Lynch
The Elephant Man
- Alan Parker
Fame
- Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer

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- John Hurt
  
  Winner
The Elephant Man
7 nominations 3 awards
- Roy Scheider
All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers
Being There
- Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer

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- Judy Davis
  
  Winner
My Brilliant Career
2 nominations 2 awards
- Shirley MacLaine
Being There
- Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Bette Midler
The Rose

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- Jerzy Kosinski
  
  Winner
Being There
4 nominations 1 award
- Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Airplane!
- Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
The Elephant Man
- Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer

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- Alan Heim
  
  Winner
All That Jazz
6 nominations 2 awards
- Anne V. Coates
The Elephant Man
- Gerry Hambling
Fame
- Gerald B. Greenberg
Kramer vs. Kramer

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- Seiichiro Momosawa
  
  Winner
Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior
4 nominations 2 awards
- Albert Wolsky
All That Jazz
- Frantz Salieri
Don Giovanni
- Danilo Donati
Flash Gordon

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- Christopher Newman, Les Wiggins, Michael J. Kohut
  
  Winners
Fame
4 nominations 1 award
- Maurice Schell, Christopher Newman, Dick Vorisek
All That Jazz
- Jean-Louis Ducarme, Jacques Maumont, Michelle Nenny
Don Giovanni
- Peter Sutton, Ben Burtt, Bill Varney
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- James E. Webb, Chris McLaughlin, Kay Rose, Theodore Soderberg
The Rose

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- Denholm Elliott
  
  Winner
Blade on the Feather (TV)
2 nominations 1 award
- Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'Gentle Folk'
  
  Winner
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
5 nominations 3 awards
- Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'In Hiding'
  
  Winner
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
5 nominations 3 awards
- Denholm Elliot, for Episode 'The Stinker'
  
  Winner
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)
2 nominations 1 award
- Sam Waterston
Oppenheimer (TV Miniseries)
- Leo McKern, for Episode 'Rumpole's Return'
Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
- Trevor Howard
Staying On (TV)

The Shillingbury Blowers

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- Peggy Ashcroft
  
  Winner
Cream in My Coffee (TV)
3 nominations 1 award
- Peggy Ashcroft, for Episode 'Caught on a Train'
  
  Winner
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
5 nominations 3 awards
- Pamela Stephenson
Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series)
- Kate Nelligan
Thérèse Raquin (TV Miniseries)

Forgive Our Foolish Ways (TV Miniseries)
- Kate Nelligan, for Episode 'Dreams of Leaving'
Play for Today (TV Series)
- Celia Johnson
Staying On (TV)

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- Tariq Anwar
  
  Winner
Oppenheimer (TV Miniseries)
5 nominations 3 awards
- Tariq Anwar, for Episode 'Caught on a Train'
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
- Trevor Waite
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (TV Miniseries)
- Jon Costelloe
Blade on the Feather (TV)

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- Sylvia Thornton
  
  Winner
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV)
- Jean Speak
Thérèse Raquin (TV Miniseries)
- Marion Durnford
Worzel Gummidge (TV Series)
- Pauline Green
Cream in My Coffee (TV)

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- Tony Anscombe
  
  Winner
A Sense Of Place: The Fens
- Peter Edwards, for Episode 'Caught on a Train'
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series)
- Peter Edwards
Oppenheimer (TV Miniseries)
- Peter Edwards, for Episode 'The Silence of the Sea'
Premiere (TV Series)
- Freddie Slade
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (TV Miniseries)

Murphy's Stroke (TV)
- Peter Edwards, for Episode 'Colombian Roots'
The World About Us (TV Series)

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